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Wheelchair User and DLA
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A young friend of mine is a wheelchair user and has a motability car.. He has a condition he was born with which means he cannot use his legs and which will not improve. He is unable to walk at all unaided although he can shuffle around very short distances (round the house) on crutches. If he uses his crutches he is in constant pain. However, his normal mode of locomotion is his wheelchair and his car.
He is absolutely terrified that he is going to lose his DLA under the new rules as he has read that if he can 'mobilise' using his wheelchair that he will be classed as not needing mobility allowance which will mean he will lose his car.
Can anyone re-assure him, with links please if possible.
He is absolutely terrified that he is going to lose his DLA under the new rules as he has read that if he can 'mobilise' using his wheelchair that he will be classed as not needing mobility allowance which will mean he will lose his car.
Can anyone re-assure him, with links please if possible.
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Member #10 of £2 savers club
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton
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There is a lot of us in the same boat of unsure what all these changes mean for us and how it will effect or lifes.
The only information I've found was:
http://www.disabilityalliance.org/f60.htm
which IMHO isn't very helpful, but it seems to be down to the wording and meaning of AID & APPLIANCE
Not a lot of help or reassuring0
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