The thing is, though you have to write about your own circumstances and health, the forms are worded in such a way as to expect a certain type of answer, and you really have to get onto their wavelength to supply the type of answer they want - so the best way to do it is to read the question carefully and really think about it for a while until you start to write something.
A couple of tips I was given when filling out mine:
i) Imagine how you feel on your worst days and use those examples.
ii) With regards to the times, for everything you need to say that you need help SEVEN days a week. Anything less gives them room to decline your claim.
I was awarded high rate mobility and low rate care indefinitely without further question the first time I applied.
A couple of tips I was given when filling out mine:
i) Imagine how you feel on your worst days and use those examples.
ii) With regards to the times, for everything you need to say that you need help SEVEN days a week. Anything less gives them room to decline your claim.
I was awarded high rate mobility and low rate care indefinitely without further question the first time I applied.
my son was turned down then when we appealed they gave him the highest rate and now he is 6 he has mobility aswell.very strange.
Find the phone number of your local welfare rights services and get in touch with them. Tell them you are having problems with your DLA forms and you are disabled, can't leave the house etc and they will arrange a home visit were they will help to fill in the forms for you.
I used to help at the CAB and this is what they used to advice. Or if you are a little mobile try and make an appointment to see the CAB they will also help to fill in the forms for you.
A couple of tips I was given when filling out mine:
i) Imagine how you feel on your worst days and use those examples.
ii) With regards to the times, for everything you need to say that you need help SEVEN days a week. Anything less gives them room to decline your claim.
I was awarded high rate mobility and low rate care indefinitely without further question the first time I applied.
i dont know who advised you but they dont look at your worst days, if you base it on your worse days its not a fair assessment cos its the problems you have on a regular basis they look at, to me you're very lucky and if they found out they could ask for review of your benefit
i dont know who advised you but they dont look at your worst days, if you base it on your worse days its not a fair assessment cos its the problems you have on a regular basis they look at, to me you're very lucky and if they found out they could ask for review of your benefit
I was advised by an MS Society representative. Scots Dragon was also given the same advice as me if you read back through the thread.
And as MS is a progressive disease, my problems are regular - every day actually - and things are not going to get better which is no doubt why it was awarded indefinitely. I'm really "lucky" in that way.
Feel free to report me to the DWP if you wish but I doubt you know my situation better than either myself, my MS nurse or neurologist and maybe you shouldn't be so judgemental in the future.
i dont know who advised you but they dont look at your worst days, if you base it on your worse days its not a fair assessment cos its the problems you have on a regular basis they look at, to me you're very lucky and if they found out they could ask for review of your benefit
I think you will find that most advisors on benefits will advise people to fill in DLA using the worst case scenario basis. I work in mental health and regularly fill in DLA forms or signpost clients to welfare rights or locally a charity called ABLE. I have clients whose week can fluctuate but on their low days cannot feed themselves, take their medication and are great risk to themselves and others. They may have had a "good day" a week ago last Tuesday but their benefit is based on the maximum amount of support they require.
Hi if you go down to your local citizans advice they have people in there that will help you to fill out all the forms. Hope everything works out for you.
When I had to fill them in for my daughter her nurse from the hospital said she would do most of it as she had done them before for children with the same problem. When I looked at what she had written I was pleased I had let her do it because I wouldn't have answered how she did - as another poster said we tend to underestimate things when on forms like this you need to put your worst day as what it can be like any or every day.
From what I have been told by people claiming or working with people on DLA, it is very rare for anyone to get it on their initial application. Apparantly pretty much everyone has to go through the appeal process. It doesnt matter that you qualify, you will be knocked back, but accepted on appeal.
The forms are appalling and many people find them deeply distressing to fill in. Getting knocked back, even though you qualify, is a terrible situation and many people find the appeals process too daunting and distressing to even attempt it.
The only reason this happens is so the govt can save money and appease all the bigoted, self sentered, ignorant Daily Mail/Sun reading types who beleive everyone on IB, DLA etc is a workshy scrounger who should be starved into submission. In the process they cause deep distress to deeply vulnerable people and deny them the financial assitance they not only need but are entitled to.
Stick at it OP, and if you get knocked back again, make sure you put in an appeal. There are various indpendent welfare agencies that should be able to guide you through it and maybe represent you at the appeal.
My cousin deals with DLA and Attendance Allowance. When I asked her about filling in Attendance Allowance forms once, her advice was to put down as much information as you can even if you think it is unimportant. I am sure this must be the same for DLA.
I cannot think about how i used to feel back in my younger days and i wish i could go back like that but all my mind is set on is how ill i feel and nothing else. i worked very hard years ago and did the overtime where i could get it as i was always asking to get more hours. so i am not workshy but i don't have any energy to do it anymore
but part of me working long hours may have contributed partly to how i am now and other factors in the past how i was bullied, losing my real mum, burning the candle at both ends and endiong up getting severly depressed as i cannot cope with things now and cannot get motivated. it's not that i don't want to but my body and how i feel is not letting me.
I am getting bullied now off a neighbour saying there's nothing wrong with you, how dare he :mad:
I have been told it will be a long time before i ever feel like working again. I am a genuine case and people know that i am not sponging off the state just for the sake of it.
I just want to die as i cannot cope with my feeling of health anymore so that's why i am getting horrid thoughts. the primary care unit says i need to be around people with the same situation and share the info but i can't even get myself out to even attempt that.
it's frightening
Its hard to give up what you had before, I have had my heart condition all my life; so in a way it was easier. However I made it a point never to let it disrupt my life as much as possible, to say enough is enough was a hard choice for me.
Your neighbour is just one example of the attitudes you can get, which you should just ignore. Just point out to him, that when he gets old and decrepit, you hope he has an people who will be kind to him, as he is to you. With that kind of attitude, he will be a lonely old man with no one willing to visit him. No one to take care of him (might get Alzheimer's/Parkinsons) , no one to wipe his ass (because of the arthritis) and no one to see that he hasn't wet the bed like a little kid
I recieved my new form a couple of weeks ago(even tho my claim doesnt run out til october). An I HATE filling it it Hard to fill in and just brings it all home what I cant do and end up in tears just looking at the form:(
I think you will find that most advisors on benefits will advise people to fill in DLA using the worst case scenario basis. I work in mental health and regularly fill in DLA forms or signpost clients to welfare rights or locally a charity called ABLE. I have clients whose week can fluctuate but on their low days cannot feed themselves, take their medication and are great risk to themselves and others. They may have had a "good day" a week ago last Tuesday but their benefit is based on the maximum amount of support they require.
well from experience of working on an advice service i can confirm that we have always been told to explain the problems on a n average day not a bad day. i'm sure if you speak to dla or any other advice service they should say the same.
I was advised by an MS Society representative. Scots Dragon was also given the same advice as me if you read back through the thread.
And as MS is a progressive disease, my problems are regular - every day actually - and things are not going to get better which is no doubt why it was awarded indefinitely. I'm really "lucky" in that way.
Feel free to report me to the DWP if you wish but I doubt you know my situation better than either myself, my MS nurse or neurologist and maybe you shouldn't be so judgemental in the future.
i'm not being judgemental what i am saying is that we have always been told to explain the problems you have on an average day not your worst, obviously give example of your worst days but the award is based on the average day.
what your saying is that if a person has an illness which only affects them once a month where they are bed bound for that one day, they should be awarded the highest possible allowance because they have only explained the bad days?
I recieved my new form a couple of weeks ago(even tho my claim doesnt run out til october). An I HATE filling it it Hard to fill in and just brings it all home what I cant do and end up in tears just looking at the form:(
i was in tears this morning and i am still like this now, i feel so sick and very shakey & shaken up, i didn't tell you but i alkso wet myself last night and again the bed last week, i am too frightened to tell the doctor this and even my family.
Don't worry about filling in the form right now; it can wait. The priority is that you have some help and support. Do you have any family or friends with you now, or who are a telephone call away, who can give you that?
Hello:)
I'm new to the forum and I saw the thread on DLA form filling difficulties.
I have just applied for my 12 year old son who has been diagnosed on the Autistic Spectrum.
I would like to ask if anyone has any advice on who would be the best person to ask help fill the form in . Is there any particular group who will help specifically with filling in forms for people on ASD?
I'm reluctant to go to CAB as I don't know if they have anyone who specialise in this dissability.
The CAB are actually really good at DLA forms. They generally have benefit specialists who are trained to help. They helped me with my first application.
Hello:)
I'm new to the forum and I saw the thread on DLA form filling difficulties.
I have just applied for my 12 year old son who has been diagnosed on the Autistic Spectrum.
I would like to ask if anyone has any advice on who would be the best person to ask help fill the form in . Is there any particular group who will help specifically with filling in forms for people on ASD?
I'm reluctant to go to CAB as I don't know if they have anyone who specialise in this dissability.
Hello:)
I'm new to the forum and I saw the thread on DLA form filling difficulties.
I have just applied for my 12 year old son who has been diagnosed on the Autistic Spectrum.
I would like to ask if anyone has any advice on who would be the best person to ask help fill the form in . Is there any particular group who will help specifically with filling in forms for people on ASD?
I'm reluctant to go to CAB as I don't know if they have anyone who specialise in this dissability.
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i) Imagine how you feel on your worst days and use those examples.
ii) With regards to the times, for everything you need to say that you need help SEVEN days a week. Anything less gives them room to decline your claim.
I was awarded high rate mobility and low rate care indefinitely without further question the first time I applied.
my son was turned down then when we appealed they gave him the highest rate and now he is 6 he has mobility aswell.very strange.
to me they want to see if you have the guts to go all the way to an appeal hearing, god i will be like jelly in there if it happens. :eek:
i really dont understand them.it was so obvious that he was so ill.
only 2 more years and counting till i have to re do that bloody form.:mad:
I used to help at the CAB and this is what they used to advice. Or if you are a little mobile try and make an appointment to see the CAB they will also help to fill in the forms for you.
Good luck.
i dont know who advised you but they dont look at your worst days, if you base it on your worse days its not a fair assessment cos its the problems you have on a regular basis they look at, to me you're very lucky and if they found out they could ask for review of your benefit
I was advised by an MS Society representative. Scots Dragon was also given the same advice as me if you read back through the thread.
And as MS is a progressive disease, my problems are regular - every day actually - and things are not going to get better which is no doubt why it was awarded indefinitely. I'm really "lucky" in that way.
Feel free to report me to the DWP if you wish but I doubt you know my situation better than either myself, my MS nurse or neurologist and maybe you shouldn't be so judgemental in the future.
I think you will find that most advisors on benefits will advise people to fill in DLA using the worst case scenario basis. I work in mental health and regularly fill in DLA forms or signpost clients to welfare rights or locally a charity called ABLE. I have clients whose week can fluctuate but on their low days cannot feed themselves, take their medication and are great risk to themselves and others. They may have had a "good day" a week ago last Tuesday but their benefit is based on the maximum amount of support they require.
The forms are appalling and many people find them deeply distressing to fill in. Getting knocked back, even though you qualify, is a terrible situation and many people find the appeals process too daunting and distressing to even attempt it.
The only reason this happens is so the govt can save money and appease all the bigoted, self sentered, ignorant Daily Mail/Sun reading types who beleive everyone on IB, DLA etc is a workshy scrounger who should be starved into submission. In the process they cause deep distress to deeply vulnerable people and deny them the financial assitance they not only need but are entitled to.
Stick at it OP, and if you get knocked back again, make sure you put in an appeal. There are various indpendent welfare agencies that should be able to guide you through it and maybe represent you at the appeal.
Your neighbour is just one example of the attitudes you can get, which you should just ignore. Just point out to him, that when he gets old and decrepit, you hope he has an people who will be kind to him, as he is to you. With that kind of attitude, he will be a lonely old man with no one willing to visit him. No one to take care of him (might get Alzheimer's/Parkinsons) , no one to wipe his ass (because of the arthritis) and no one to see that he hasn't wet the bed like a little kid
well from experience of working on an advice service i can confirm that we have always been told to explain the problems on a n average day not a bad day. i'm sure if you speak to dla or any other advice service they should say the same.
i'm not being judgemental what i am saying is that we have always been told to explain the problems you have on an average day not your worst, obviously give example of your worst days but the award is based on the average day.
what your saying is that if a person has an illness which only affects them once a month where they are bed bound for that one day, they should be awarded the highest possible allowance because they have only explained the bad days?
i was in tears this morning and i am still like this now, i feel so sick and very shakey & shaken up, i didn't tell you but i alkso wet myself last night and again the bed last week, i am too frightened to tell the doctor this and even my family.
all i want to do is just hide from everybody
Don't worry about filling in the form right now; it can wait. The priority is that you have some help and support. Do you have any family or friends with you now, or who are a telephone call away, who can give you that?
I'm new to the forum and I saw the thread on DLA form filling difficulties.
I have just applied for my 12 year old son who has been diagnosed on the Autistic Spectrum.
I would like to ask if anyone has any advice on who would be the best person to ask help fill the form in . Is there any particular group who will help specifically with filling in forms for people on ASD?
I'm reluctant to go to CAB as I don't know if they have anyone who specialise in this dissability.
Any advice appreciated.
Thank you
Good luck!
xx
http://http://www.autism.org.uk/
if you look on this site - they have a section on benefits which may help you
Here is a benefit info page from the National Autistic Society http://www.autism.org.uk/living-with-autism/benefits-and-community-care.aspx