DLA WAIT TIMES THREAD 51

[HangryLimeBeaker]

Last thread was getting full up. Drop your scan dates here!

Close scan dates! Hopefully looking at November it’s been such a long and painful wait. 🤞 and good luck back at ya x

Rang today, told not to call back till the 12th of November as that’s when it will be 20 weeks hoping I’ll hear before that tho scan date 25/6

I'm so confused - put in a form that should have been backdated to the 11th April if returned by the 23rd May. Sent it back recorded delivery way before then, later got a letter saying the scan date was the 31/05.

Received a payment today for £516.60 with no text/letter etc which divides down to 18 weeks of low rate care or low rate mobility on its own. 18 weeks ago was the 8th June but it doesn't divide by any other amount. We were hoping for HRC and LRM, do they sometimes pay them separately? Or does that mean we've only been awarded LRC and not backdated to 11th April. I'm so stressed and confused!!

If the scan date is after the date they gave to send back it will be back dated from the scan date. So you would've been backdated 18 weeks low rate care or mobility. It would have been processed last week. You can always ring them Monday and they will explain and you can an MR to appeal it.

@AugustLily Nearly scan date buddies, I think our SDs are 12/07 and 15/07 for my boys. Good to have an idea when we should hear by…

sounds like they've backdated to 31st May because the money takes 3-5 days from decision, to go in. mine is 18 weeks to 3rd June and i got my decision on Tuesday. I'd call them and notify them of the error, and then separately do a MR to get a higher rate.

Yes if it was received late you will only be backdated to scan date.

Joining! My scan date is 12/07, here's to hoping things pick up abit, this thread has gone very quiet on dates

had lots of support on this thread during my long wait a few weeks back 😊 if there is anyone who has been awarded if they have had an increase in child tax credit this week? My payment and upcoming weekly child tax credit payments have almost doubled and have also had a hugeee one off payment on weds also from child tax credit… hadn’t made tax credits aware of dla award (from august) because we are soon changing to universal credit .. sorry if i sound confused it’s because I am 😄and i also apologise for jumping on this thread💕 - just hoping for others who may also have had increased child tax credit this week or any big one off payments!! Good luck to those waiting 💕

Reading this back I apologise for how utterly insane i sound 😂 meant to say today’s payment and upcoming weekly payments ( checked on my gov.uk tax credit payment app thing ) 😂 I’m sorry.. not well either so thats not helping me articulate what i mean xx

When I applied for my other kids tax credits did increase massively.

When I applied for my other kids tax credits did increase massively.
Now I've seen this I'm hoping ds claim goes threw before my switch date next month.

Was the increase in your tax credits automatic or did you have to make them aware etc? Thank you xxx

I've just received a letter to say my MR will.be looked at within 11 weeks. Is this just standard and still working at 25 weeks or has the queue dropped? X

No think thanks just a automated thing or something on the system this is what’s causing all confusion with ppl waiting have read on here most are waiting 20 weeks plus I got one over a new claim the other day and it’s got will hear within 15 weeks don’t know we’re the heads at if they tell ppl the right time scale then they wouldn’t have so many phone calls joke x

Omg I'm so happy, received a text message at 10.20 today to say my child qualifiers, words cannot describe the relief I now feel as I'd convinced myself we'd be denied, unsure of the rates but am happy to receive anything. Scan date was 6/6 so 18 weeks an 2 days ..

Congrats! X

I thought so as I spoke to them a couple of weeks ago and was told 22 weeks wait.. thanks x

They did it automatically. I think dla alert them.
Itvwas done before I even received the desision letter from dla.

That's a standard letter and they still 25 weeks wait roughly for MR

It's normally about £75 extra if you receive MRC or £112 HRC a week in tax credits, makesure they have you added to the claim so you get it back dated because you won't be able to claim it back when you move to UC as it's a nightmare to chase it up. Just makesure it is on so it's not a mistake on the system and you have to pay back for their mistakes, if that makes sense

They have gone from 31/05 as your scan date isn't within the 6 weeks timeline, best phone up and ask what you got awarded to only get £516

Yes that looks like 18 weeks of LRC

Thanks all, it's just frustrating as it wasn't received late (they received it about 10 days before the stated return date) but obviously it sat there for ages before being scanned in. I thought they classed it from when it was delivered to them and not when they scanned it.

If I'd realised they were classing it as returned late I'd have challenged the scan date when we got the letter ages ago. I didn't realise that's what the scan date meant!

Has anyone from the 5/6 been awarded yet?