Some dla advice please...

[Gwoolie]

My son, aged nine has recently come to live with us, his mum cannot cope with his outbursts and violence due to his aspergers.....

He is statemented and goes to a specialist school as a border, coming home every other weekend and school holidays ( which are longer than mainstream schools )

I am the named parent/guardian on his DLA form. His mum used to claim it, but passed all to me. I'm confused as they have sent me a borders form for when he is home. Now on the dla website etc it says about payment being away 28 days or home 28 days....

I'm lost..... The max he stays at the school is 10 days, but like this month he is home 18 out of 31, next month home 13 out of 30, and summer hols 23rd July until 3rd sept.....

So he is never away more than 10 days max....

Help !!!

Kind regards

Graham

I'm really not sure, I would give dla a phone.

He is entitled to DLA for the days he is at home. Have the DWP sent you a form, which is headed "Claim for time spent at home", which shows the name of the school, the date he came home and the date he went back? It also gives a date, when you should send it back by. You fill it in, with the days he is at home at weekends and school holidays, including the day he came home and the day he went back. (Any part of a day in your care counts) Then, when you have sent it back, after the date they specify; they calculate the number of days he was at home and they will pay the money into the bank account designated by you.

Ignore what the DLA website says about 28 days....Its irrelevant to this situation.

My daughter has been at specialist residential schools since she was 10 - first as a weekly boarder, coming home every Friday night and going back Sunday night/Monday morning. Now, she is at a specialist residential FE college, she comes home every other weekend and school holidays. I've been filling these forms in since she was 10.

This pro-rating only applies to the care component. The mobility component, if he gets is, should be paid in full per week, regardless of how many days he spends at school.