What s it about DLA people find so ahrd to grasp?

[ScramVonChubby]

Article by BBC on Universal credit www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11735673 states that it is paid to [people who struggle to walk; presumably fuellling another round of people ready to assume that anyone without a wheelchair has stolen their blue badge.

It's ridiculously simple to understand the purpose of it so why does this happen?

I am hoping by the time anyone reads it it will ahve been changed as the BBC do claim to change factual errors and I have contacted them but doubt it.

I sympathise and empathise with a heavy, fed up heart.

Had to carrying ds to his physio appointment on tuesday, down several flights of stairs and long way across carpark , past a row of empty disabled spaces because dla turned ds down.

you are going to the tribunial arnt you sparkle?

Yep I frequently struggle with an overrought ds (11 who can run for England but has no sense of danger when alarmed) and my own poor health that means I struggle to chase after him (how I wish he had an off button or I had a boost!). Although ds gets DLA he does not get HRmob - he can walk very well, just not with safety.
It is a pity there is not better awareness of disabilities.

Just finished writing 13 page letter of points for reconsideration, 35 more pages of evidence attached. I don't hold out any hope really, too depressed to believe or even hope that anyone cares any longer. Sorry Scram, am post hi-jacking

mines same magso he has no sense of danger roadwise understanding or remember directions as has short term memory problems and although verbally if you asked him he would know about stranger danger when complete strangers talk to him or he meets someone in the street he talks to them as if hes known them all his life and asks inapropriate questions and says inapropriate things which puts them in serious danger when out my older two DC cant take him although they are teens to the park as he just runs off and talks to anyone , he also loves dogs (weve 2) but doesnt understand that you cant just go and stroke anyones dog without checking first as this is dangerous(he was bitten by a german shepherd once and still hasnt learned)because he will come up and startle them from behind to stroke them. so a lot of diff dangers out there plus my DS is always complaining his legs and feet ache we used a pushchair for days out until he was 6/7 hes now 10

did you get someone to help fill it out sparkle i did the first time CAB helped (this was for my DH whos disabled) so when it came to my DS needing one it wasnt so hard as used to doing them

I used a successful application as a template. I think I didn't do too bad a job on reflection, but have been hampered by an unusual genetic condition, which ds has in an extreme form in some ways, aided by inept dla dr not doing his job with due care