If your disability or chronic illness means that you can’t work, you need to make sure you get enough national insurance (NI) credits. If you don’t, you might not qualify for a full state pension. How do you get them? Employment Support Allowance (ESA) or ‘new-style’ ESA. To get the full basic State Pension you …
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In this series of videos I will be covering all aspects of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), from general advice on how to approach the application form and assessment, to specific advice on tackling each question. For more detailed articles, you might also be interested in reading Your bite-size PIP application part 1: 7 tips to read before …
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So continuing on from Part 1 of this mini-series, which covered how to navigate the PIP appeal process, here is Many Lemons’ Top 12 tips to read before embarking on the PIP appeal process (yeah, 12 not 10, I’m not conforming). Number 1: Bear in mind the deadlines of each phase: REQUEST A MANDATORY RECONSIDERATION: the …
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Click the play button to listen to me reading this blog post I’m embarking on a very loaded topic today…(drum role please….) we’re going to be tackling….Personal Independence Payment appeals! aaaaaggggghhhhhhhh!!! This blog definitely classes PIP and PIP Appeals as Life Lemons, so let’s bounce them around, break them down and own their asses. For many of us the …
