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DLA Tribunal - First One
powerkoala
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After 5 years on middle rate care and lower mobility, they decided to award me lower rate care. I appealled - it failed. This part was the "reconsideration".
I am about to appeal against this decision to a tribunal. I have been diagnosed with a mental illness. A community team monitor me. No others monitored are on lower rate care.
I want to know reasons to put on the form - i.e. argue that I need more personal care than 1 hour every day, which is why they've lowered it, (despite my conditioning worsening. Can someone help in this department?
What aspects should I look at?
I need more care than one hour as my mental illness...and then what? This what I'm going to put :-
My mother (or carer) has to remind me to wash, to change my clothes, prompt me to go to bed, to attend appoitments at the dentist or doctors and so on. Also visits from the team mean I can be given medication, and am checked to see if I'm taking it, even though there is no law yet. My mother must monitor and report difficulties...just recently she prompted me to phone up about the distressing number of voices I was hearing, and to get help. I got tranquilissers and sleeping tablets.
When I'm out, (I would never go out if not for the visitis from the mental health team), I need to be supervised in case I misinterpret people talking as them talking about me, and so get into a fight or argument. Without their help I am withdrawn, and lie on the sofa sufferring in silence. I need to go shopping, go for health care, and even for some social life which is provided by the mental health team, all this takes up more than one hour, and is closer to constant, with my mother an all, than is to one hour.
This is mental symptoms, I also have physical symptoms such as pain in the legs and blurred vision, and have been on pain killers for over six months. Again this prevents day to day activities taking place, and supervision especially lifts are needed, in case my temper flares or worse I should start screaming and require an ambulance. So while this might not be CARE and more MOBILITY, it still requires attendance by a carer - all for more than 1 hour a day.
I can provide a mental nurses and doctors (both a psychiatrist and a GP) written confirmation that I require more than one hour closer to 12 hours care (sometimes more as at night too I'm kept awake), through mental illness, and can prove I've been on strong pain killers for at least 8 months with an undiagnosed pain condition (though it has been speculated that my brain may to cause.
In summary - all these aspects - the prompting, the monitoring by by carer, and the need for supervision while out suggests a number of hours care per day.
(That's it).
I am about to appeal against this decision to a tribunal. I have been diagnosed with a mental illness. A community team monitor me. No others monitored are on lower rate care.
I want to know reasons to put on the form - i.e. argue that I need more personal care than 1 hour every day, which is why they've lowered it, (despite my conditioning worsening. Can someone help in this department?
What aspects should I look at?
I need more care than one hour as my mental illness...and then what? This what I'm going to put :-
My mother (or carer) has to remind me to wash, to change my clothes, prompt me to go to bed, to attend appoitments at the dentist or doctors and so on. Also visits from the team mean I can be given medication, and am checked to see if I'm taking it, even though there is no law yet. My mother must monitor and report difficulties...just recently she prompted me to phone up about the distressing number of voices I was hearing, and to get help. I got tranquilissers and sleeping tablets.
When I'm out, (I would never go out if not for the visitis from the mental health team), I need to be supervised in case I misinterpret people talking as them talking about me, and so get into a fight or argument. Without their help I am withdrawn, and lie on the sofa sufferring in silence. I need to go shopping, go for health care, and even for some social life which is provided by the mental health team, all this takes up more than one hour, and is closer to constant, with my mother an all, than is to one hour.
This is mental symptoms, I also have physical symptoms such as pain in the legs and blurred vision, and have been on pain killers for over six months. Again this prevents day to day activities taking place, and supervision especially lifts are needed, in case my temper flares or worse I should start screaming and require an ambulance. So while this might not be CARE and more MOBILITY, it still requires attendance by a carer - all for more than 1 hour a day.
I can provide a mental nurses and doctors (both a psychiatrist and a GP) written confirmation that I require more than one hour closer to 12 hours care (sometimes more as at night too I'm kept awake), through mental illness, and can prove I've been on strong pain killers for at least 8 months with an undiagnosed pain condition (though it has been speculated that my brain may to cause.
In summary - all these aspects - the prompting, the monitoring by by carer, and the need for supervision while out suggests a number of hours care per day.
(That's it).
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This site may help you to understand the criteria:
http://www.benefitsnow.co.uk/default.asp
I would appeal, but go to the CAB who will refer you to a welfare rights worker, who will help you with it.
Lin
You can tell a lot about a woman by her hands..........for instance, if they are placed around your throat, she's probably slightly upset.
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They use a points system. If you don't score enough points they will reject your claim no matter how severe your condition. A welfare rights officer will go with you to the tribunal which I would recommend for everyone. http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/index.htm is a website which has more information about the points system and how it works. They used to have guides which gave how the points were awarded. Make sure that you include the fact that you could be a threat to yourself if you are placed under stress. There have been so many cases of suicides that they have been advised to take special care of claimants who might harm themselves. Good luck.0
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They use a points system. If you don't score enough points they will reject your claim no matter how severe your condition. A welfare rights officer will go with you to the tribunal which I would recommend for everyone. http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/index.htm is a website which has more information about the points system and how it works. They used to have guides which gave how the points were awarded. Make sure that you include the fact that you could be a threat to yourself if you are placed under stress. There have been so many cases of suicides that they have been advised to take special care of claimants who might harm themselves. Good luck.
There is NOT a points system for DLA claims, maybe you are thinking of IB.0
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