DLA

General health and lifestyle
1

i have not received a payment for my DLA since May after I applied for PIP

2

Hi,

Why haven’t you received payment? is it because you were refused PIP? More information is needed to be able to help you because with little information it’s impossible to give any advice.

3

the pip is pending and i thought my DLA payments were ongoing until PIP DISISION

4

This is correct but only if they received your PIP forms back within the time stated. If you were late returning them then your DLA will stop.

Have you rang DWP to ask why they stopped? You’ve left it all this time to ask on forum? :o

5

i am sure it is illegal to stops my payments or are they keeping the money for brexit andi keep ringing every day and i did not know about the forum until now

6

You haven’t answered my question.

It’s definitely not illegal to stop any payments. There must have been a reason to stop them and that reason is either because you didn’t apply for PIP within the timescale when you first received the letter to apply.

Or you didn’t return the PIP forms on time.

If you didn’t do any of these within the time given then your DLA will stop.

If you’re awarded PIP successfully then you’ll be backdated to the date your money stopped.

7

Denise is right you’re dla will stop if you don’t return the forms as requested on time or some other information you may have been asked for.

8

To all concerned i do not know why it has stopped as i have sent my form back well before the PiP deadline

9

Then the only ones that can tell you why it’s stopped is DWP.

10

does anyone know any other way to contact DWP as I have spent over 300 miniutes trying to speak to someone and there isnt a facility on there to ask for a call back

11

There’s nearly always a long wait for someone to answer and very often you can be waiting an hour, sometimes longer. I always find ringing early in the morning the best time. It’s a free number to ring so my advice is to ring and wait in the queue for someone to answer.

Sending letters to DWP isn’t the best way to communicate with them because they often don’t answer. The address to write to is also different depending on what are you live.

12

I would get in touch with local Citizens Advice Bureau.
Sarah

13

Hi,
Welcome to the forum. Dealing with the dwp could be one of the most frustrating things you ever do, some fortunate claimants get sorted promptly, most of the time its very drawn out.
Don’t despair, this forum is here to help and help is what you will receive if you can include as much information as possible.
Good luck, you’ll need it.
Mike.

14

Thinking about this, surely you received a letter telling you that payments were stopping back in May? as we are now in August…

15

wil do

16

thanks i will try at 8am when they open then

17

To be honest there’s not much CAB can do other than ring them on your behalf, which can also take time. Trying to get an appointment with these is often a nightmare because they are so busy.

The tick is to keep on hold until they answer, it’s free so no worries about the cost anymore.

18

Maybe it depends where you live.
My local CAB were absolutely brilliant.
Getting an appointment was no problem and they filled in my PIP form for me.
They also kept in contact with me until I received a decision.
Could not fault them at all.