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Have you been refused a copy of your PIP or WCA assessment recording?

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments ...
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other people who live with you on UC claim form

Please help , I am so worried I have got this wrong. I have just filled in the online Universal credit form for my adult daughter with LD . she is migrating from ESA support group. she is single with ...
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Severe disability payment and IS10 form

I received an IS10 form back in March and duly returned completed immediately. Having received nothing from DWP as acknowledgement, I telephoned them to check the form was received. This was confirmed ...
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PIP ‘I’ or ‘he/she’ when completing for another

The PIP form states to only write ‘he or she’ if you are writing on behalf of someone else if you are their appointee. But to write ‘I’ if you are writing on behalf of someone else when they are ...
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Claim PIP for Learning Disability

In January 2024, there were 178,776 PIP claimants with learning disability listed by the DWP as their main disabling condition. This makes it one of the ten most common condition to get an award of ...
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Assessment phase of employment and support allowance (ESA)

What is the assessment phase of employment and support allowance (ESA)? When you first make a claim for ESA, you are placed in the assessment phase. This phase continues whilst a decision is made ...
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PIP Telephone Assessment Recording

The assessor said a recording could not be made due to technical difficulties. We asked if we could record it. We were told - ''You can but it is not admissible and cannot be used''. Is that true?
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Zero percent fraud rate for PIP, DWP figures show

The DWP considers that the rate of fraud in relation to personal independence payment (PIP) is so small that it is assessed at 0% in the 2024 “Fraud and error in ...
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Can i upload documents like pdf, word docs , jpegs to my UC journal ?

I am still filling in my irESA to UC migrated application form so i still cant access my journal yet. I want to supply a couple of doc letters - am i able to upload these as an entry into my uc ...
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PIP Review Timeline

Hi, how long do I have to put an MR in? I don't agree with how I've been scored on my review and I need to deal with this as I've noticed past scores are affecting how I'm scored in latest reviews ...
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Shadow minister’s massive lie to demonise mental health claimants

Shadow work and pensions minister Helen Whately stands accused of telling a massive lie in her efforts to demonise claimants with mental health and neurodevelopmental issues, in her speech to the ...
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Correct Photo ID when migrating over to Universal Credit

Hello. If using a Passport for photo ID when migrating from ESA to Universal Credit, does it have to be a valid up to date one or can I use my expired old one? I'm struggling getting a ...