DLA - Can i claim?

HOWMUCH

Hello do you have Learning Difficulties? If so you should be on the LD register at your GP's Surgery and have an annual review?

tomtom256

rogerblack wrote: »

That seems a truly astounding statement.
Take walking ability for example.
This can vary from 0 to (say) 50km without a rest, or undergoing severe discomfort.

Discounting other factors, you would have to pick one figure at which a person is 'disabled'.
Current practice with DLA leans towards around 30-50m, though this varies a lot.
Clearly, 1m is 'disabled' - under nearly any conditions - but 40m might be 'borderline' - and depend on the exact conditions of the assessment, and the legal framework.

Truly binary disabilities are rare, and even where they seem to exist 'no light perception in either eye' - the functional difference between someone meeting the strict letter of that test, and someone who can see a faint glimmer, when they look at the sun isn't really meaningful.

Not really in the test above and with DLA/ESA/PIP the DDA/Equalities act, you are either diasbled or not, they don't say well you could be but sorry we can't quite decide so here have the money, it's a definate yes or no.