Sid Bonkers
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
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- Diet only
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- Customer helplines that use recorded menus that promise to put me through to the right person but never do - and being ill. Oh, and did I mention customer helplines :)
mrburden said:I fully understand that a 4 year old will not be expected to administer their own insulin. However, to receive the highest rate of DLA, one would need to be unable to walk more than 5 mtrs, communicate with others or do any task that a "normal" person of that age could do. With that in mind, receiving the highest rates are very unlikely.
I did state that the "Assistance part of the DLA" should be mandatory, the mobility allowance would not be granted unless the claimant has mobility problems and I dont recall the OP saying there was any disability.
The DLA (at present) has two distinct parts the mobility allowance and an assistance allowance, either one can be claimed without the other, so a child unable to manage a condition such as insulin dependant diabetes would be able to claim only the assistance allowance unless there were other conditions to take into account.