Denied DLA - Help

Cpt.Scarlet

It's worth noting that no MP has the legal right to interfere in the benefit Decision process, at best they can ask some embarassing questions of the DWP and bring some limited attention to your claim.

That said, I have seen many a claimant get an answer on their claim in days by involving their MP, when the DWP have have sat on it for months.

lemontree

Anything worth a try when all other avenues have been explored!!!

zaksmum

Do you know, I'm appalled that a man who's lost a leg and is struggling to get around on crutches is denied disability benefits.

It makes me wonder just who WILL be deemed sufficiently disabled to merit it!

Disgraceful.

rogerblack

zaksmum wrote: »

Do you know, I'm appalled that a man who's lost a leg and is struggling to get around on crutches is denied disability benefits.

It makes me wonder just who WILL be deemed sufficiently disabled to merit it!

Disgraceful.

There has to be some degree of disability at which you're not disabled.
I have fully working legs.
At times, I can run for short distances.

I would have them cut off tomorrow if it would mean I was 'normal' other than this.
I would then be enthusiastically seeking work.

There are a number of very visible groups, with big campaigns behind them.
The blind.
Pensioners.
Cancer sufferers.
People in wheelchairs.

It is 'easy' for the general public to understand the above.
This can tend to drive policy.
The descriptors in ESA are in some ways reasonably fair now - but they assume that the disability discrimination act solves everything.

The mere fact of someone being unable to walk normally (the OP may not get any points under ESA at all) is important to their prospects of getting work - but other things need considered!

Stephen Hawking (though clearly past the age of retirement) would have many jobs open to him, though he is profoundly disabled.

A comparatively fit 55yo labourer, that's just lost the use of both legs in a way that does not allow prosthesis, and is not able to use crutches, would find it much more difficult to get employment.

The existing test very much focuses on disability, not on what work you may be able to do.
This is why it's broken.

We need to support those who can work to some degree into the workplace.
But to recognise those with profound compound disabilities, and help them too.

Can I work?
Certainly, to some degree.

I would however need pretty much a live-in maid and housekeeper, so that I have _nothing_ else I need to do other than work.

Basic day-day life is tiring me to the point where I'm not really coping.
I last had a bath nearly a week ago, and the washing up is about at that level too.
I got really exhausted after getting the fridge out into the garden, and painting it (it was horribly rusty).

sunnyone

zaksmum wrote: »

Do you know, I'm appalled that a man who's lost a leg and is struggling to get around on crutches is denied disability benefits.

It makes me wonder just who WILL be deemed sufficiently disabled to merit it!

Disgraceful.

What you really mean is you fear losing your HRM because you are not as disabled as this claimant.

How many years have you been claiming to be unable to walk again? And how long claiming without the need to prove your case?

Unable to walk or virtually unable to walk has been a white elephant for the twenty years DLA has been in around because so many people could walk totally unaided/unhindered and yet still get get HRM.