DLA Doctor visit.......what should I expect?

Lady_K · 16 March 2009 at 12:53PM

Glad it all went good for you

What is a mil?

My sister has rheumatoid arthritis she is on full mobility and low rate care she chose to have a car rather than the money.

Rikki · 16 March 2009 at 12:57PM

Lady_K wrote: »

Glad it all went good for you What is a mil?

My sister has rheumatoid arthritis she is on full mobility and low rate care she chose to have a car rather than the money.

MIL is Mother in Law.

browngirl_2 · 20 March 2009 at 5:39PM

Hi Loopy Linz
I had a medical for DLA about 3 week ago. I was dreading it after everything I had read on various sites about the doctors that visit you.
So was pleasantly surprised when he arrived and was obviously retired and extremely polite and chatty.
He went a lot into how my life was affected by my condition, more than I thought. He was very insistent about the cooking element asking me to explain exactly why I couldnt stand or use a perching stool to cook. Other than that area, he just asked me questions and listened. He was leading sometimes so watch for that if you get asked questions like 'so you could manage that without help then couldn't you?' and you are relaxed and trusting as he is such a lovely man, you may just agree, wrongly.I
He didnt ask me to walk outside (I believe this is now quite unusual) only to my sitting room door and back. He didn't look around the house either..
I thought that it seemed to go well, and after he left I thought he was a cunning blighter. All those closed questions !!
But the report is very factual and more or less my words.
So don't be too worried about it, there are some very honest EMP doctors out there. I have read a lot of other positive medicals too on other sites.
Hope this helps a little
Browngirl

pippin49 · 20 March 2009 at 9:18PM

Oh for gawds sake. He simply asks you a few questions, todays date, what time it is to know your mental health, Then gives you a quick assesment. For a home visit, means you have been successful in your claim. Sorry for the paranoids on here. No way will he search your home

daska · 20 March 2009 at 9:34PM

Isn't there a case report on Benefits and Work about exactly that scenario costing someone their benefit - doc asked if he could have a quick check around, found a mobility item obviously unused and based the report on that without asking the applicant why the item in question was unused... I'm not a member at the mo so I can't check.

Lady_K · 20 March 2009 at 10:06PM

pippin49 wrote: »

Oh for gawds sake. He simply asks you a few questions, todays date, what time it is to know your mental health, Then gives you a quick assesment. For a home visit, means you have been successful in your claim. Sorry for the paranoids on here. No way will he search your home

There are people on this forum and other forums that have said the doctor has looked around their home and it is mentioned on benefits and work site so it does happen, sometimes it may not but it is a possibility so it is better to be prepared for it. Myself I would not be that bothered about him/her looking around my house, I have nothing to hide. I don't really like the idea of an examination or if they ask me to go outside.

pippin49,

What do you mean about means you have been sucessful in your claim, what does?

browngirl_2 · 20 March 2009 at 10:43PM

I too was wondering what Pippin49 meant by this??

redmandarin · 23 March 2009 at 1:06AM

I took Pippin49's statement to mean that if the DWP require you to have a doctor's visit, then this means that your claim has been successful so far, because if they didn't think it had any merit, then it would have been rejected, automatically. A final decision would then be made depending on the outcome of the doctors visit.

I knew someone who had so many disabilities/illnesses that the DWP just accepted what he had put on the form and his claim for DLA was accepted immediately. I think it was because he suffered with so many conditions, that the information he gave (and long list of medications) made him look as though he was on his last legs!