When applying for DLA

Careful_with_that_Axe

That's kind, thank you. I'll certainly update you here, although you may hear me screaming it from the rooftops anyway!

wornoutmumoftwo

I feel as if huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders, at least until november next year, I will never take it for granted that my son will get dla and will provide all evidence first time round.

It was a very daunting, very nerve racking experience, but the tribunal people were lovely, apologetic (waited over an hour), and simply asked me questions relating to my original claimm form. I had welfare rights rep with me, and although I took my paperwork with me she told me not to use it in there in case it looked like I needed to check.

I'm glad I didn't do worse case, so everything I wrote in the claim is exactly the way my son is now.

Off to help a friend fill in hers now for her son, she had the council filling it out but they told her not to bother mentioning a major speech delay(?).

Indie_Kid

wornoutmumoftwo wrote: »

Off to help a friend fill in hers now for her son, she had the council filling it out but they told her not to bother mentioning a major speech delay(?).

I've always been told to mention everything - no matter how insignificant it may seem.

andyandflo

lyniced wrote: »

It looks like they are getting tougher on new applicants. When I first applied I was given the lowest amount, but appealed and now have the higest on both components, but that was 10 years ago, and now we have all this cost-cutting........:(

Hi, In 1995 I was granted HRC/HRM - for life, at my first application.
This was entirely for Mental Illness.
Over the years I kept asking for it to be reviewed as I wanted to get better and felt that having DLA was not helping. I saw it as a blockage - how can you get better if people say you are still ill.

Anyhow, bit by bit they kept reducing it until finally I got it down to LRM.

Now years later and with worsening conditions, I failed to get it back up!
They are more than willing to take it off you if you ask them to, but will not give it back when needed.

Indie_Kid

How is DLA a "blockage"?

sunnyone

sh1305 wrote: »

How is DLA a "blockage"?

Maybe in the same way as being a chronic liar is sh, when you change your story all day everyday you cant expect the DWP to accept todays offerings.

Pension credit, DLA, AA and ESA are all in place one day and gone the next for some:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

andyandflo

sh1305 wrote: »

How is DLA a "blockage"?

When people say that you are ill and, all you have around you are sickness/disability benefits, it is very difficult to have a positive attitude to getting better.

Remove them, lose the people around you - then you have something to aim for. You can't do that on the medication they give you and the countless weekly appointments with the various mental health staff.

It's like a fog has been lifted - self reliance - you are in control once more.

But to be honest you would probably not have the faintest of a clue what I am on about. Those that have experienced it will fully understand.

Indie_Kid

andyandflo wrote: »

When people say that you are ill and, all you have around you are sickness/disability benefits, it is very difficult to have a positive attitude to getting better.

Many people who claim sickness benefits, have conditions that will never go away and for some, their conditions will just get worse. I got told last week that I have small tears in my neck muscles - there is nothing that will cure this and all the problems that come with the tears and weakened muscles.

andyandflo

sh1305 wrote: »

Many people who claim sickness benefits, have conditions that will never go away and for some, their conditions will just get worse. I got told last week that I have small tears in my neck muscles - there is nothing that will cure this and all the problems that come with the tears and weakened muscles.

Quite correct, my problems never went away. I wanted to get better and saw DLA as something holding me back psychologically.
So many mental health patients do this - that is why their CPN takes control over it in many cases. They refuse their medication because it makes them believe that they are ill when they think that they aren't.

You have no idea how many mentally ill people refuse to claim benefits!

TOBRUK

andyandflo, that may be the case but you have decided that you now want to claim DLA, however, you do not want any medical checks to be made!

If you believe you are entitled to DLA for your care or mobility needs then you have to allow them to assess you and for them to contact your GP and any health workers you have seen.