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PIP MANDATORY RECONSIDERATION TIMES INCREASE BY 86%

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Justice is grinding slower with every passing month, where PIP is concerned.

The waiting time for a mandatory reconsideration decision has increased every month between August 2018 and January 2019, the most recent month for which figures are available.

Last August the average wait was 32 day but this has now increased to 54 days and, for all we know, is still rising.

The success rate for PIP mandatory reconsiderations is a dismal 19%

Of those who fail their mandatory reconsideration but go on to appeal, however, an overwhelming 73% are successful.

So, the reality is clear. Mandatory reconsiderations are simply an increasingly long and deliberate delay in the appeals process, designed to discourage as many claimants as possible from appealing.

With the introduction of online appeals before you can get to an oral hearing, the delays are only likely to get worse.

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Hzhr7

It is getting worse. It has taken 16 months for my tribunal to be heard , this week. In the mean time my condition has deteriorated but anything that happened after the assessment cannot be taken into consideration. I don't know what the outcome will be but I do have Welfare Rights handling my case . The whole system is a disgrace .

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johnsmith

Put in for mandatory reconsideration in at beginning of February. They received it 6th of February. They acknowledge received it when I inquired about my letter of mandatory reconsideration beginning of April. Said that they have not looked at it and will now look at it and it would take about 6 weeks.

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