DLA WAIT TIMES THREAD 48

[OneGreenBird]

Time for a new thread ready for another week of waiting.
Hopefully lots of us get the results we're so desperately awaiting 🤞🏻❤

I would send it in. I sent in my dd’s prescriptions and wrote how I have to decant them all into her pill boxes once a week then three times a day get them out and take them to her then supervise her taking them/encourage her etc. it’s all time taken than is beyond the level of care expected for a secondary school aged child IMO. The DM probs won’t agree 🥴

Hi, my DD claim has also been made a priority but wasn't told how long it takes to be seen. It such a hard wait, any kind of award will make such a difference for her.
Hope you get some good news soon 🙏 x

Thank you for your help, that is one thing I was wondering if I need to send in past evidence that still explain his needs now. I can’t believe you had to call 3 times to finally receive them, I bet even if we called earlier to request a renewal form they would say it’s to early and not send them. I know we are only in July but I think I will make a start on putting all evidence I have into an envelope and add to it as extra evidence comes incase the forms come late. Good luck with your decision I hope you hear soon

I had priority last Thursday had a decision same day but didn’t know until I got a text on Friday x

Sorry to sound so stupid but it got made priority last Thursday and got a decision the same day? Thats brilliant for you that they made the decision so quickly! I hope it goes the same way for us!! Thank you for the information as well. X

Hiya yes I called up Thursday for update due to nursery now needing funding for 1 to 1 as they are struggling to cope and cannot be funded without DLA award he said he made priority I was so shocked as I didn’t intend that from the call I just wanted an update, but seem to over share a lot 🫣 I had an award text the day after called up and he said decision was made the Thursday!

My uc backpay was sent to bank on Friday aswell, it doesn’t say on the letter how long the backpay will take but I’m guessing it will be 3-5 working days. I’ve put a note on my journal because they’ve backdated mine to the beginning of my February award but they haven’t added the disability or carers elements to that month which means I’m a month down in backpay. Still waiting for them to reply.

Oh wow! Congratulations! Thats amazing you can hopefully now get the funding 1 to 1!
Hopefully we can get the same, my DD needs have become so much higher and will need extra funding for school soon. X

Hi guys sorry to geg in on your post, i got awarded over a week ago and werent sure how to tell UC, i ended up seeing a post on here on how to do it after me leaving messages on my journal them not getting back to me! Was just wondering how long did it take for anyone to even reply to you before you called i hate even speaking to them feel like they just judge you, we will be getting backpay from them from march so maybe thats why they arent replying to me 🙈

FYI SD 13/3 I got a call today. I missed some details out of my form. I.e EU benefits she mentioned that I should get decision within 24/48 hours. She rang on 0800 number.
So I’m hoping everyone else during this SD will be hearing soon.

They will usually send you a message on your journal saying it’s been verified and it’s been sent to a dm to make the backdating decision, I waited a month and still hadn’t heard anything so wrote on my journal questioning why I haven’t heard anything and they responded that same day with a decision then the following day they updated past rewards and sent me a letter with how much they ow me that will be sent to my bank, I can’t say how long it will take to go into the bank as I’m still waiting but I shouldn’t think I will be long.

I just called they said their systems are down and they can only see so much 😬 they did say my claim was with DM, does anyone know how long it can be with a DM they couldn’t give me any rough answers 😑😑

Thanks for the reply, they dont rush themselves do they 🙈 will give it until the end of the week see if it gets verified or not then will call them up

Got the text this morning to say we've been awarded! I rang up, she couldn't see it so put me through, the bloke I spoke to said that the system is down so he couldn't see what we'd been awarded and the letter wasn't there yet either, so I guess I'll have to wait and see! I rang the short way, was waiting for about 10 minutes to get through.
SD 14/3

congratulations 🎉 on award hope it’s what u was expecting hun x mines the 15/3 hoping it’s not to long now x🤞x

mine got put to priority Thursday and it’s with a DM now but no idea how long it’ll be with a DM for! Good luck though lovely it’s definitely a draining time! X

My whole process took 8 weeks. They never replied to me on my journal either and the people on the phone was just as useless. I hope you don’t have to o wait as long as what I did. If I wait the 5 days for the back pay then it will be z9 weeks in total

Thank you for the reply, oh i hope there is no more waiting 😄 ive had enough of waiting, i got awarded for my son on the 28th of june got the letter before the payment said i should have it by the 3rd of july if not call up obv nothing still by the friday (the 5th) they told me they had my old bank details still even though i called up in may to changed them and they had verified that it was the new bank when i spoke to them the day i got awarded in the morning before i knew i had been awarded said all was right on security bank checks useless lucky they said the payment had bounced had made the change an should have it by tomorrow now 🙈

Got a text after the phone call earlier to say my son qualifies. Will they let me know what rates he will get over the phone?
SD 13/03

Excellent! Upthread people have said their systems were down and they couldn’t access rates. Not sure if it’s back up?

Good point. May have to ring tomorrow.

Scan date 7/03
Rang up this morning to check progress, it's a clerical case and because ds is 3 they don't have a national insurance number for him so they are just waiting for a client ID number before they can issue any updates or payments the lady on the phone stated that it could now take longer than the 20 weeks I've waited 18 weeks this week and the weight is driving me mad, sent form s off Feb 21st 🙈

Clerical means done by hand.. your child won't have a national insurance number yet it will be a reference number from them.. it shouldn't discriminate your claim though.. I would ring up ask for answers as each child is given a reference number from them when you apply.. I'd ask then to go into depth of why it's clerical and what issues they have and also why it should cause you to wait longer.. hope you get sorted out

Sorry they reference number given turns into thier national insurance number.. I'd still ask why

Thank you, good luck to you as well! It really is, the wait is so hard! X