DLA spending

[Anonmom812]

My daughter recently was awarded DLA.. She has just turned 16, the award is for £412 every 4 weeks...
She gets £25 a week of it for spending and another £20 a week for her bus ticket.
(I have tried giving it her weekly to help her learn how to budget as when she has it all at once she often tends to spend it all at once and then had none left for the rest of the month)
The rest of the money I split between extra food (she often won't eat the same as everyone else) music subscription for her (her special interest), savings etc (incase she needs clothes or other things etc)

She always gets to the end of the week and has ran out of money so am I being too tight with it?
I don't want to be controlling but I also don't want the money to be wasted on take aways and the corner shop

This is new to us so please any helpful suggestions or thoughts are welcome

I know that, I attended the PIP interview with DD2 with severe MH problems. I had to rearrange the interview, because the first time she’d been in a S136 suite for suicidal behaviour (I can’t remember which attempt it was out of the 50 plus).

She was turned down, as it was before she was diagnosed with ADHD (and it is very disabling for her); and the case where the courts said the DWP was discriminating against people with mental health problems.

She’s also been diagnosed with complex PTSD, as a result of bullying at work, and been admitted twice as an inpatient this year!

I have spent enough time attending MH assessments in A & E, and meetings with consultant psychiatrists about her, to know these people are not going to be taken in by fakers!

Yes, totally agree.