DLA Waiting Times Part 6 2022

@Kaylisa fantastic news congratulations! Definitely appeal for your 14 year old. Good luck x

Hi all, I haven’t commented before but have been reading all the comments for the last week or so.
I applied for my 14yr old (15 next week) and my just turned 7yr old.
rang for the forms aug 1st and they were received 8th sept.
I got a phone call 2 days ago from them asking for some information on my 7yr old. The lady was lovely. I answered her questions. She said I should hear within 7-10 days. I asked her about my other daughters claim but she said she couldn’t tell me anything about that as she didn’t have it.
I decided to ring today at 4pm to see if there was any update on my 14yr olds as I hadn’t heard a thing. Took about half hour to get through. He said she hasn’t qualified unfortunately and that when I get the letter I can do the Mandatory reconsideration which I will be doing.
I then asked about my 7yr old and he said she has qualified for high rate care, no mobility. He said the money should be in my account early next week and is backdated to 3rd august. Then the following pay date will be the 10th jan.
I can’t quite believe it! I’m hoping he hasn’t read it wrong, I really hope the letter comes soon for confirmation! He didn’t say how long awarded for and I forgot to ask.
The lady on Wednesday who rang me said they have about 60,000 claims to get through and the wait time is about 12-15 weeks for new claims.

Good luck to everyone waiting to hear

@sadiekt21 I have recently done a mandatory consideration. They sent me a text after receiving it saying it could take up to 4 weeks. Mine took 3 weeks and 2 days, hope this helps x

They seem to be getting closer our scan date is 20th september

@LucasMummy88 aww my boys called Lucas too! Everything crossed for you. Hopefully it doesn’t take too long. My date was 14th sept so I’m hoping to hear something soon but too scared to phone haha x

I’ve just spoken with a lovely lady that said my claim has gone to a decision maker today. Scan date is the 15th September x

Hi all, I have just sent off my new evidence and argument off for mandatory reconsideration. It's gone off special delivery and will be definitely there by tomorrow. Does anybody know how long the Mandatory reconsiderations take to sort? Hoping to be accepted and have a bit of extra cash for Christmas lol xx

@Jayda19902022 @Chanlou @Gemz8 thank you all. This thread has been so useful to me and kept me going on days I felt it was useless. Fingers crossed for you Chanlou. Good luck all still waiting.

@hoplittlebunnieshophophop yeah definitely harder to gather evidence for. That’s amazing news though and good that they listened to you x

Have you heard anything? I am the same as you scan dste 7sept

That’s right.
my daughter wakes up multiple times at night and gets out of bed and wonders around. If we are not with her she may open the hot water in the bath, climb the stair gate, sit on baby brother and god knows what else.

We didn’t have any evidence of this from professionals so wasn’t sure if they would take my word only.
DM asked me about her sleep today and I was lucky that they believed me ☺️

@hoplittlebunnieshophophop aww that’s brilliant news. Am I right in thinking to receive HRC it has to be during the night that you provide care too? Hopefully others will have some more good news today too. Fingers crossed for everyone x

Thank you both!

we got HRC! For everyone worried because their child is under 5, it is possible.

some tips for the ones in earlier stages:

• have a note on your phone where you write all the struggles in daily life, developmental delays etc as they come. It’s easy to forget information so if you have everything in one place you can have a more accurate description of your child struggles when you have to talk about them.
• ask professionals to include on the reports That your very child is behind her peers developmentally as much as possible. A doctor, therapist etc May think that the description of your child struggles makes it obvious that they are behind, but DMs are not healthcare professionals and my have the mentality that “all children do that” better spelling it out.
• you can have a lot of reports but if they are very vague the DMs can’t confirm that what you are saying about your child is true. Please ask the professionals to as much details as possible. For example, I mentioned to the paediatrician all my child’s struggles but he was extremely vague on the report like “struggles with social communication “ etc if it was for that report only the DM would have not real picayune of what we go through. I then had other professionals writing more complete reports and had some brilliant one from Speach and language and portage which I’m sure helped a lot.
• if your are given training for your child behaviour include that too. (I had training about mealtimes and challenging behaviour and sent them the invitation letter
• complete ASQ questionaire if your child is behind developmentally, ideally with your health visitor and send That too. Ask your Health visitor or download it from the internet.
• mine didn’t but some health visitors are happy to make reports
• how was your life affected by your child disabilities? Did you give up work? Reduced hours? Are your extremely isolated socially because you are not able tonteáveis the house? Include that information too! If you can have proof of this better (eg. Nursery letter explaining they have to reduce your child hours or that your child had to leave due to them not being able to support them.) have everything documented !

hope this helps anyone

best of luck to all waiting

Thought I'd call them up. Scan date 14th September.. Going to a decision maker at the weekend I was told. Good luck everyone ☺️

@hoplittlebunnieshophophop Congratulations!! X

Does anyone know how DLA affects housing benfits at all please

@hoplittlebunnieshophophop fantastic news x

Good news for me!
scan date 12 of September
just got a call whilst on hold to talk to them. 0800 number so had a feeling it was them.
it was DM!
lovely lady, asked me questions about my daughter’s sleep and mobility. ( we didn’t apply for mobility as she wasn’t 3 so not sure why this was asked)
she said that a decision will make today and confirmed she will be awarded but doesn’t know what rate yet.

I am so glad as we’ve been impacted so much financially after me having to reduce my hours at work since no nurseries were willing to have my daughter full time.
dla won’t fully make up for the loss but will surely help so I’m very grateful.

good luck everyone x

I'll give them a ring today, can't wait for the queue 😂.. I'll let you know! X

@Jen1988mumof5 Brilliant News

@Jen1988mumof5 thats brilliant news! Congratulations! X

@Chanlou no message received, no. I just called on the off chance. I got real emotional and just sat there trying to take it in. Try calling them lovely. Good luck, let us know what they say.

Congratulations!! Did you get a text before you called? Mines been with the decision maker since Monday, scan date also 7th September xx

Hi everyone,
Called again this morning and have been awarded HRC and LRM backdated to July. Scan date September 7th. I know there has been quite a few with same scan date. Fingers crossed for you all. Finally got the decision we were hoping for, not ashamed to say I cried. It finally felt like all we are going through has been recognised. Silly I know. Good luck everyone!!

@LanB That's good they must have a huge backlog