DLA and PIP for a child

A question about : DLA and PIP for a child

Hello,
My daughter gets DLA and was reassessed in December with this new award expiring August 2016.
I have had a letter saying in April (when she turns 16) she will need to apply for PIP and does she need an appointee.

My questions are:-

Why does she need to claim an adult benefit in her own name when by law she must stay in full time education or an apprenticeship etc until she is 18. I am confused over whether my daughter is classed as an adult or a child at 16.

And the second question is our postcode is ME1 (Kent) and as far as I can see PIP hasn't been rolled out into our area yet so has there been a mistake.

Any advice will be gratefully received.

Thank You

Best answers:

• it has nothing to do with her being classed as an adult of a child really.
  for the specific benefit PIP, the rules are that anyone between ther ages of 16 and 65 are expected to claim this instead of DLA.
• I don't know about PIP as my DD is still on DLA [almost 18 yrs old] but the appointee is fairly simple. I am my DD's appointee as although she can use her bank card/account she cannot deal with the people/paperwork associated with her claims.
  Basically she gets and has control over her money but I get the headache caused buy the endless form filling !
• My son also has an indefinite award. I have been told by the DLA unit that his application to move to PIP will be around October 2015. We are in a WA postcode.
• '...until around October...'
  My understanding is that there is no legislative basis whatsoever to these - they are merely indications of what will happen in the general case, not binding policy.
  If you are 'invited' to apply for PIP - even if you are in a group where the general date has been given - you must either apply for PIP, or lose DLA.