I got a tribunal date through: 23rd April 2024, 10 months after I’d originally applied for PIP.
My outrage was never about the money I couldn’t believe what I was reading. I’d just received a letter from the DWP following my phone interview for PIP – which I’d applied for because I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome . My condition means I faint spontaneously – anywhere, at any time – which is both very dangerous and incredibly hard to live with. PIP, or Personal Independence Payments, helps people with long term physical or mental conditions or disabilities with extra living costs.
For one thing, my husband and I have spent all our life savings and had to remortgage having our house adapted, putting the bedroom and bathroom downstairs so that I won’t have a fatal injury – I’d previously collapsed on the stairs twice. We used all our savings and re-mortgaged our house – and the PIP money would certainly come in handy to help us pay this money back. The phone interview for PIP in September 2023 was awful – because my condition really gets me down.
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