Dla renewal refused

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Foggiepete, I'd recommend you join Benefits & Work - it helped me deal with hubby's DLA claim. Once you're a member you have access to all kinds of paperwork and can download guides that take you through all the forms step by step, help you with the 'correct' wording to make the best possible claim.

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All of which have to be paid for. I have just joined and every single one of their guides carries a fee of nearly £20. Let's make some money ouf of the disabled. Disgusting.

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You are joking? Really?

I thought you only had to pay once?

You could be right, I didn't go as far as paying for a subscription, that's not how it read to me, but I could have misunderstood their system. Either way it charges... :-|

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Sorry to Pete for hijacking his thread, but hang on a minute, MissyAllen and CG: How do you know he is not genuinely disabled? Not all disabilities are visible, you know. Terminal illnesses in particular have a habit of masquerading very well. Or chronic issues. Or mental health issues.

 

I have a child who's got Asperger's Syndrome (a form of autism for those who haven't heard of it, of which there are many). Outwardly, he looks the average 11 years old. But odds are that he will never be able to have a job, will never be able to live independently, will be mainly confined to home all his life. He gets DLA higher care and lower mobility. His renewal is due when he turns 12, and I am going to push harder for higher mobility this time, because as he gets older and bigger, it means that when he goes into meltdown, his issues are even more significantly different from another child of his age. When he was 5, him running in the tram path was a lot easier to deal with than now where he's nearly my height and a damn sight faster .

 

But if one of you kind people were to see him in the garden helping me carrying a flower pot or coming back from shopping and chatting and laughing, you'd be quick to condemn and point the finger, wouldn't you? Well, shame on you. Try to open your narrow mind to the fact that not everyone carries their disability on the outside.

 

For one Pete who should never have been put through all this but finally got justice done, there are hundreds, possibly thousands of people who miss out on what they're entitled to, so the sooner we eradicate this kind of judgmental thinking (and I use the word loosely), the sooner these people might be able to obtain the help they need.

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That makes no sense that your son gets Medium Care and Low Disability with Aspergers Syndrome unless the DLA has messed up my claim or your sons claim. I get Medium Care and Low Rate Disability for having both Aspergers Syndrome, Epilepsy, Short Term Memory Loss, Worchester Draught Syndrome and Arthritis so I don't know how that works out. If you can get the disability element put up a grade then that means that they are not using base reference for different conditions (Also before anyone says that his maybe worse, I frequently almost get run over by cars because I don't think to look and I can't recognise dangers)

No, he gets high rate for care, not middle, and low for mobility. This illustrates what a lot of these threads are about, namely how the forms gets filled in makes a difference.

 

I went to tribunal with someone whose son was scarily like mine in age, behaviours, everything, yet she had been turned down over and over again, yet I got my son's 1st time.

 

To the best of my knowledge and my understanding, the difference between middle and high rate usually comes down to the amount of night care required, so a person who sleeps through the night is more likely to get middle rate for care whilst someone whose carer needs to get up 4-5 times a night to see to them is more likely to get higher, since it's round the clock care.