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<blockquote data-quote="Spiral" data-source="post: 94829" data-attributes="member: 19371"><p><a href="http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/FinancialSupport/DisabilityLivingAllowance/DG_10011816" target="_blank">http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/FinancialSupport/DisabilityLivingAllowance/DG_10011816</a></p><p></p><p>Nigel/oojimmyflip, I have posted a link to an "offical" website, this confirms the accuracy of the information I have given. copepod's advice about ages is also correct.</p><p></p><p>To get DLA you actually need some level of support and supervision. The high rate is for people who need care during the night.</p><p></p><p>DLA is not a means tested benefit and is not dependent on contributions - you are confusing it with other invalidity benefits which are dependent on contributions.</p><p></p><p>In my experience - I work with physicaly disabled adults - people tend to minimise and underestimate the impact of their disabilities. You need properly experienced help to complete the forms unless you have a very obvious physical disability - especially if your condition has developed slowly and you have struggled on and "coped", but it takes you far longer than an able bodied person to do a task.</p><p></p><p>I recommend approaching the organisatins I have already mentioned for help to complete the forms. If you are refused, appeal, and ask one of the organisations I have mentioned for help to appeal.</p><p></p><p>I helped a friend (with a serious mental health problem) get DLA not so long ago. The friend did not follow my advice to get help form one of the organisation I listed :evil: :roll: and the benefit was turned down. The friend was actually in a psychiatric unit when the letter refusing DLA arrived, and due to his mental health problems, he did not appeal. I got him to the CAB several weeks after discharge and he submitted a new claim. The CAB also supported him to appeal the original refusal, even though it was several weeks outside of the usual limit for appeals, because of his serious mental health problem. He was awarded DLA on the second application and his claim was eventually backdated to the date the original application was made on appeal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spiral, post: 94829, member: 19371"] [url]http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/FinancialSupport/DisabilityLivingAllowance/DG_10011816[/url] Nigel/oojimmyflip, I have posted a link to an "offical" website, this confirms the accuracy of the information I have given. copepod's advice about ages is also correct. To get DLA you actually need some level of support and supervision. The high rate is for people who need care during the night. DLA is not a means tested benefit and is not dependent on contributions - you are confusing it with other invalidity benefits which are dependent on contributions. In my experience - I work with physicaly disabled adults - people tend to minimise and underestimate the impact of their disabilities. You need properly experienced help to complete the forms unless you have a very obvious physical disability - especially if your condition has developed slowly and you have struggled on and "coped", but it takes you far longer than an able bodied person to do a task. I recommend approaching the organisatins I have already mentioned for help to complete the forms. If you are refused, appeal, and ask one of the organisations I have mentioned for help to appeal. I helped a friend (with a serious mental health problem) get DLA not so long ago. The friend did not follow my advice to get help form one of the organisation I listed :evil: :roll: and the benefit was turned down. The friend was actually in a psychiatric unit when the letter refusing DLA arrived, and due to his mental health problems, he did not appeal. I got him to the CAB several weeks after discharge and he submitted a new claim. The CAB also supported him to appeal the original refusal, even though it was several weeks outside of the usual limit for appeals, because of his serious mental health problem. He was awarded DLA on the second application and his claim was eventually backdated to the date the original application was made on appeal. [/QUOTE]
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