How does the reconsideration process work?

I have just received a call from the DWP regarding my lost/mislaid papers. Apparantly they have magically appeared and are going to be re-looked at again by a decision maker. I'm not going to hold my breath but fingers crossed.

Thank you for your reply jeff1, i'm going to make an appointment to see my local Lib MP, as i feel like many others on this forum that i have been treated badly.

Thank you for your comments x

Hi
Just wanted to say things received into DWP can take up to two weeks to be scanned onto their system so could be correct that they not yet received them as could still be in the scannong process

Hope that helps

Hi Nutsella,

Hang in there, I had my DLA award revised without going to appeal.

My initial award was for MRC and no mobility. The DWP had ignored their own ATOS Drs comprehensive report as well as all the other info they had. We sent a few more support letters, and pointed out what their own very long and detailed medical report said, and asked for revision (didn't ask for appeal, just for them to look at it again) and suceeded. I am now on HRC and HRM.

Requests for revision mean your whole claim goes to a different Decision Maker, not the one who made the decision you are challenging. According to the benefits officer who helped me, it is a more senior person who does the re-assessment.

They are obliged to revise if they can rather than send it to appeal, there is a good paragraph on the DLA appeal info on this site quoting case law about that, worth pointing out to them to encourage them to revise. (can't be positive now, but think it's in the letter about sending in extra info.)

Good luck,
rainbowlight

Thank you for your words of support rainbowlight, it's great news when you read that someone in the same position as myself has achieved a positive outcome after initially been given an unfair award.

I read the paragraph regarding the revision process [ i think it's a similar process to a reconsideration ]. I'm also hoping that a different decision maker looks at my case again and takes everything into consideration. Fingers crossed.


I received a letter from the appeals service yesterday Sat 09th Oct, if it goes to an appeal due to the high volume of appeals needing to be heard my appeal would not be heard until March 2011.

Many thanks x

Oh dear nutsella, you have been treated/dealt with apaullingly. Sometime I wonder if they try hard to cancel your entitlement by acting "daft" It is so very stressful applying for DLA never mind having this done to you. Good Luck and keep us posted as this treatment is dreadful.

nutsella You may not get much help from your mp he or she will have to tow the party line, when it comes to benefits as he or she is from the condems it says it all in the word CONDEM.