DLA WAIT TIMES THREAD 55

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Hello everybody, I have made a new thread please put in your scan date, hopefully we hear some good news this month. please be kind and feel free to share scan date, entitlement award and what child is diagnosed with as others in similar position can feel uplifted in these stressful times. 💐

New claims (NC) are taking ‘around’ 20 weeks.
Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) & Change Of Circumstances (COC) between 20-25 weeks approx.
Renewals between 15-20 weeks approx
tribunals: when you disagree with MR and are considered by a court

scan date (SD) date form was scanned on the system and counting weeks for decision

original claim date: date you called up for the forms and you will be backdated

UC : universal credit
DWP: department of work and pensions
DM: decision maker; the person who assesses each claim and awards/decline a case

number for an update (0800) 121-4600

currently we are beginning of July and some last June dates! xx

Awww thank you 🥰. I’m looking forward to seeing more lovely awards today

good morning! Scan date 3/7 new claim, I called a few times last week in regards to sending in further evidence etc as I was at 19 weeks. still no decision made by Friday. Told to wait until 20 weeks as it should be done by then. 20 weeks is Wednesday this week for me so I will be holding of ringing now until Wednesday. Fingers crossed for everyone still waiting 🤞🏻

I second this! Will be watching for a post from you all day🤞🏽🤞🏽@MrsW12

❤️ thank you so much

Good luck to all those near and over their deadlines. Hope today brings your children the awards they deserve.

20 weeks today fingers crossed hear something this week

Me too! Are you calling this morning? I think I’m going to

Oooh I hope you get some news today x

I hope you do too x

I think it's such a horrible emotional roller-coaster. Like when someone with a date after yours gets awarded, you feel really pleased that their child is getting what they deserve and that their wait is over, while also feeling the "why have they been done before me" feeling. Who's calling this morning? I'm a bag of nerves 😬

It’s 9am! Could be any time now for us all 🤞🏻

So true. And then you see those that are on week 20+ still waiting and you can't help but feel that could be you in a week's time. We've decided to wait and call next Monday when we are on week 20 exactly

Everyone is so supportive of each other on here and are genuinely pleased to see others get awarded. It’s lovely. But of course we all
wish it was our time. I think my wait is a bit more unusual because of writing to the school. Don’t let this dishearten you. I bet this is your week x

In my head, because of the weekend we should get a decision by Friday, even though I know we absolutely could be waiting until next Monday or longer! I'm crossing everything lots of us hear today. I think the wait times are definitely still creeping up aren't they.

Aww I fully get this, I think I maybe to do with the decision maker reading through evidence etc, my sons was awarded at just over 18 weeks recently but my evidence was minimal and was easy to see the highlighted points as didn’t need to read much, when I did my daughters I sent about 40/50 pages of Doctors letters from about 10 different departments so can imagine the reading time on that for them to find the information they are looking for, good luck darling xxx

I called to see if they received further evidence I sent in last Monday. Not yet, I did send freepost and again on Saturday gone as they are in no rush to look at our claim!

good luck everyone for today, please update the thread. ❤️ xx

Apparently they are working on scan date of 24th June for MRs. He said that was the latest date provided to them from the DLA office as of this morning.

Scan dates of 24th June for MRs according to decision maker I spoke to this morning. He said he would give it around 6 weeks for us to hear back on scan date of 06/08.

I am already itching to call 🙈 but I know its completely pointless as Friday afternoon it wasn't done, and it's all been very quiet on decisions on here and fb all weekend 😬 the last bit is definitely the hardest part

FYI for a bit of context on DM working arrangements if anyone's interested - they have a flexible working policy. If it's the same as mine (I also work for a government department), they will be allowed to do their work hours during a set period in a day, such as anywhere between 7am and 7pm Mon-Fri. Any work done outside of the that will be overtime. Although most will work 'normal' types of hours there will be some fitting their hours in around other commitments, so there is the possibility of getting decisions early or late in the day 😊

Just seen an award on FB this morning for the same SD as ours 😬

I’m gonna keep an eye on the groups on Facebook if I see anyone close to ours I’m ringing up

New on this page! 👋
Ours is also a new claim which was scanned 12/07! Fingers crossed we hear something this week X

I get this I was woke up in June sons renewal claim by a dm at 7am in the morning asking to check my address (we had house moved since I did the renewal and the paper work was different to the system) and he was awarded at 7.30 I got a text to say it had been completed 2 days later uc messaged on my journal asking me to change the care rates accordingly so this definitely can happen any day of the week