Lost my tribunal

Tehya

nannytone wrote: »

low rate care is for supervision only. high rate care is for people unable/virtually unable to walk. you use a pram to walk. so you arent unable to walk!

My husband can walk but he's in receipt of higher rate mobility because he's in tremendous pain when doing so. On his DLA letter it clearly states he gets it bacause of this reason. So to the OP gather all your evidence, ask to see a Social Worker for an OT assessment then when allowed reapply, I am not sure on the rules or how long you may have to wait.

Having to use a child's pram for mobility is not a solution and may well end up harming you more. The burning feet is one of the first symptoms my husband started with and at first his doctor thought it was diabetes but within a few months he could barely walk so make sure you are getting the correct treatment and if you're not already seeing one ask for a referal to a decent Rheumatologist.

Good luck to the OP.

PS: My husband receives high rate mobility and middle rate care for an illness very similar to RA. He suffers with Psoriatic Arthritis and Psoriasis if you wish to know what this is look up The Singling Detective.

Richie-from-the-Boro

jetta_wales wrote: »

A qualifying factor for HRM is also 'unable to walk without severe discomfort'. Obviously it depends on quite how bad the pain is but that's the criteria and your condition warrants consideration for that so I don't see what justification there is for people laying into you for it.

An interesting debate, but one that will make your head explode when you read the law and the case law on the subject. There are very specific legal descriptions of :

- walk
- gait
- pain
- discomfort
- virtually
- etc

After 5 minutes of reading the stuff you would be happier to watch the shopping channel demonstrating a Teflon frying pan for a full boring sixty minutes

jetta_wales

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

An interesting debate, but one that will make your head explode when you read the law and the case law on the subject. There are very specific legal descriptions of :

- walk
- gait
- pain
- discomfort
- virtually
- etc

After 5 minutes of reading the stuff you would be happier to watch the shopping channel demonstrating a Teflon frying pan for a full boring sixty minutes

I know I looked into it in depth for trying to find anything that might allow my condition to be considered for HRM because I don't really fit into any of the boxes that they expect us all to be catagorised by. Blindness wasn't yet enough to gain HRM but my condition also causes great pain (far more than severe discomfort on any sunny day) but it was completely irrelevant to them because it wasn't 'caused by the act of placing one foot in front of the other'. Also those with the condition (I forget it's name) where by their skin burns and blisters quickly in any exposure to sun light, were deemed ineligible because of the same reason. But obese people can claim it because they suffer from shortness of breath as a result of the action of walking which is criteria put in place for people with heart conditions etc.

*sigh*

Fortunately for myself the rules for the blind changed to allow some of us to claim HRM now and I got my award yesterday :-)

Richie-from-the-Boro

jetta_wales wrote: »

I know I looked into it in depth for trying to find anything that might allow my condition to be considered for HRM because I don't really fit into any of the boxes that they expect us all to be catagorised by. Blindness wasn't yet enough to gain HRM but my condition also causes great pain (far more than severe discomfort on any sunny day) but it was completely irrelevant to them because it wasn't 'caused by the act of placing one foot in front of the other'. Also those with the condition (I forget it's name) where by their skin burns and blisters quickly in any exposure to sun light, were deemed ineligible because of the same reason. But obese people can claim it because they suffer from shortness of breath as a result of the action of walking which is criteria put in place for people with heart conditions etc.

*sigh*

Fortunately for myself the rules for the blind changed to allow some of us to claim HRM now and I got my award yesterday :-)

Agreed, if you look at the structure of the national costs tables some 90% of the money that flows from the treasury goes to the ' walk ' test based benefits. It's hardly surprising that any a~n~other condition is considered [ in the global scheme of things ] important by the decision makers. The unfair result is that anything to do with walking is refined and all other areas such as your own are poorly defined and subject to a crude and unflattering analysis and outcomes.