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The latest PIP Statistics-
● '1,232,200 claims in payment at January 2017, up 141,000 from October

2016'

Mandatory reconsiderations- '85% of new claims reconsiderations and 79% of reassessed DLA reconsiderations for normal rules resulted in no change to the award.'

Around 70% of PIP appeals are then won by clients.

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PIP Medicals and Appointees- Can an appointee attend without client? Thanks to Annie Sands, Autism Anglia, for information about this issue.

ATOS's latest line (22/2/2017) on this issue is-

'Where the appointee is present but the claimant is not
Following guidance from DWP received today, we are no longer permitted to undertake any face to face assessments where the claimant’s appointee is present but the claimant themselves is not. Even though the appointee can speak on behalf of the claimant, the claimant must also be there.
If the claimant has not been present at the assessment, we should not proceed and FTA action should be taken.'

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