my husband was diagnosed with Stage 4 Prostate Cancer that has spread to his bones in January 2017.  We only found out about PIP two weeks ago while I was talking to a colleague at work. He has been put through the system as ‘special circumstances’ and should start getting his payments this week. I have two questions, the first being - who should have informed us that he was entitled to this payment and secondly is there any way we can get this back dated as we had no idea such a scheme existed. He had to take 8 months off work last year and we really struggled, if only we had known.  Please help us I don’t know which way to turn.