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Pip tribunal won, but dwp have requested statement of reasons!

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sarah68863
sarah68863

I was wondering if anyone could give me so advice plz.

I won my pip tribunal 12th Oct 16 but I have had a letter from dwp saying they have requested statement of reasons.

I am fully aware they have as much right to appeal as i do but I'm just wondering what are the chances of it going to UTT. Do many cases go to UTT or is it a delay tactic as I have read on other forums?

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  • AlexandriaGizmo
    AlexandriaGizmo sarah68863

    Posted

    Sorry Sarah, I personally have not come across a situation were the DWP have rejected the tribunals decision, I'm thinking that thats what it means, can I ask the health issues you have that you claimed under, welcome to the site

    • sarah68863
      sarah68863 AlexandriaGizmo

      Posted

      Hi AlexandriaGizmo,

      Thank you for your reply,

      i have claimed due to mental health issues that I have had since I was a teenager. I suffer from bipolar disorder. The tribunal awarded me highest daily living rate and standard mobility.

      I have called dwp and they haven't said they are definitely appealing nor have they said they are not appealing. I also asked them if this was unusual for them to ask for a statement of reasons and they said absolutely not it's very common. Just getting very anxious and stressed about it all.

    • les59996
      les59996 sarah68863

      Posted

      The DWP, as is the government, very concerned that up to about 60% of PIP decisions made are being reversed by the Tribunals. This flies in the face of the DWP having had at least two goes at making a decision (the original one and a review under MR).

      Either the DWP are useless at their job or the Tribunals are having new evidence presented to them that the DWP have never seen.

      It is a known fact that over 75% of those overturned decisions made by the Tribunal are down to the oral evidence given to them by the claimant.

      How are the DWP trying to rectify this?

      First of all they are strongly supporting the case that in the future (hopefully in 2017) no claimant will be allowed to sit in front of a Tribunal. Instead most cases will be decided by written legal submissions. It is a maybe that the judge might telephone the claimant and may use Skype. The DWP are hoping that that will drastically reduce the overturned decisions rate. On top of that, in the interim, the DWP are taking on board an initial 86 qualified ‘prosecutors’ to attend the current hearings. They will be there to put the DWP’s reasons as to why they are right and have the powers to cross examine the claimant in front of the judge.

      The DWP by looking at the reasons why their decision has been changed want to know how they can feasibly change that decision and if they can’t what measures they can take that will stop these revised decisions being made in the first place (hence the changing of the Tribunal system and bringing on board ‘prosecutors’ that will want to discredit the claimant and the oral evidence they give).

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