Pip decision reversal

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Dose anyone know why DWP reverse their decision after you have put in to appeal?

I went through the process after having my daily living taken away after 2 years.

Three days after I lodged the apeal they called me and said they would reverse the decision in my favoure , was it happy with that or did I still want to go to apeal

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Get them to put it in writing before you agree not to go to appeal.

[mikeadams51]

I think it is most probably because they would lose and decided to save face. Two thirds of cases going to appeal they lose. There is a big investigation going. Glad you are getting what you deserve.

[hypercat54]

They did this to my sister who has severe osteoarthritis. She was put in the ESA WRAG group from the Support group at her last assessment. She hadn't even put in an appeal though when the DWP rang her reversing it and putting her back in the Support group. I think the assessors have to fail so many and get bollocked if they don't. I reckon her assessor was running low on refusals and just picked on her by chance. It's a crazy assessment process.

I think DLA was only changed to PIP to try and save money as the Govt. thought most people were scamming the system. When it turns out most are genuine they panic and bring in new measures to try and save money. x

[Badbessie in reply to hypercat54]

Lol....The change from DLA to PIP as cost the Government literally billions. The last figure I saw was 3.4 Billion above what the Government estimated the cost would be. Part of the problem was the Governments own figures for people with disabilities which were wrong. Basically there were people with disabilities that were not registered as disabled but met the criteria for PIP. Throw in the more more invisible disabilities such as mental health problems and the bean counters got it totally wrong. There are a number of court cases going on which will qualify even more for the benefit. It was flawed from conception.

[hypercat54 in reply to Badbessie]

Yes it was because it was set up based on false figures and the only desire was to save money. x