DLA!!!! Good news!

[Anna85]

After recieving a call yesterday asking me lots of questions I called them today to see if they had made a decision and they had!!

We have been rewarded MRC and LRM until 2012!! Would hoped it would be for longer but still 2 years!!

Been stressing over it especially when I got the phone call yesterday!! x

yeah!

Great.

This IS good news.

I'm in the process of re-application. Forgot just how very longwinded those forms were....

Fingers crossed for us, and well done to you!!

So good to see the words 'good news' and DLA in the same sentence!
well done to you.

Im amazed at how quickly they are dealing with claims lately, we sent ours off at around the same time, second week in November and got ours within a week. Good luck to everyone still waiting/applying! :)

First aplication sent in on 3rd November, still awaiting decision as they were writing to the Paed.

Now nervous about telephone interogation call asking me lots of questions as found the form daunting enough.

Yikes!!!

Glad you are pleased with your outcome.

Great news!

Very pleased for you, well done .

Well done!

Sent DS2's off on the 3rd November, I rang last Friday to see if I could add some more, and they did let me, so I guess that means they haven't looked at it yet? The lady on the phone told me to expect 8-10 weeks wait.

They told me the same but I knew that had asked school for report and I got a call yesterday asking me lots of questions.

I thought I would perhaps call today and see if a decision had been made and it had!!! Just called tax credits and let them know as well! x

Well done, great news.

That is great news. I posted ds's about two weeks ago, got a standard letter on saturday saying they are writing to his consultant..... "which one" and "Good Luck with that springs to mind!"

Think we are in for a long wait.

Great news, well done . Don't forget to let tax credits know as it could increase your award. Also it makes you eligible for a cinema card if you want one.

Cinema card? What's that? We have MRC and LRM, too, so I guess we might be eligible, too, but I've no idea what it is .

I didn't know it could increase your tax credits award too....I am so ignorant

CEA Card, you can use it at nearly all cinemas, it costs £5.50. You have to pay for the child's ticket but allows one carer in free. Lots of other attractions like theme parks allow a carer in free if you show the DLA award letter, many don't publicise it so it's always worth asking.

You can also apply for Carer's Allowance if you're earning less than £100 a week (I think) and caring over 35 hours.

Tax credits increases and CA usually get backdated to the start of the DLA award as well.

Thanks for the CEA info, SCM!

I did th CA and the TC but hadnt heard of the CEA...thankyou SCM. :)

Thank you so much for that SCM, I would never have found out about that. Can I be cheeky and ask another related question, if they come back and turn down my ds dla application, I know that I can appeal, if the appeal is successful do they back date from the initial application?

I think they do but not 100% sure!! x