DLA WAIT TIME THREAD 60

[zoeybrooks45]

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 121-4600 0800 121-4600
currently we are in July/August for decisions! xx

Ahhh okay thankyou

COC SD 19/7 now at 23 weeks & still not heard anything. Anyone else with a similar date?

MR sd 25/07

Woke up to a pending back pay of £1400 which I work out to be about £33 a week so he’s got his HRC back. I’m so happy.

With UC do I just write it in the journal or are the rate levels a bit you have to select in changing the child’s details?

Am 23/7 coc xmas eve i was told it was with a dm they had a name of who its with so am hopping this next week brings good news

Hopefully some news soon then, im going to phone Monday & chase it up.

I believe you have to select the rates of DLA. I would write in the journal to request a back date from that date your son was awarded.

I Used this to update UC was shared by someone on here x

Me too, between dla and uc Christmas was a welcome distraction. Hope they don't drag it out much longer, I can concentrate on rhe kids and the house if it gets sorted 🤞

MR SD 26/7 still not heard anything. It’s got to be soon 😂

Hope yours is soon since they moved on to August just before they closed.

Yes i will be doing the same surely this wwek has got to be are week 🤞

I know 🤦‍♀️ god knows how their system works

Hopefully soon, mine was 25/07 and I have back pay pending for Tuesday.

When was yours awarded x

No idea, I haven't spoken to them, just saw the money pending. I haven't wanted to call at all because I didn't want the disappointment and I really thought they'd be difficult about it and we'd have to go to tribunal.

Ah I see mine was awarded on 23/12 but I can’t see any pending payments on my bank I never can so was just wondering to see when I can expect mine x

@Myboy2017 i think you’ll hear something this upcoming week🤞🏽🤞🏽

Got to haven’t I 😂 getting a bit silly still having July dates pending. Thank you xx

19 weeks 😭 surely this week I’ve got to hear something. Decision maker said a decision would be made very soon when I spoke to them so I’m preying I phone up Monday and it’s been sorted they said they had all the info the needed

Here's to many more awards for the children this week positive vibes for you all x

Out of curiosity anyone know how long uc will take to backdate the child disabled element please sent messages on 24th December and had to contact tax credits due to migration in July as they cover the disabled element prior to me migrating to UC but dla claim started 11.4 but MR has been backdated to 4.4.24 now weird??
Received uc message about verifying details my payment period ends 3.1.25 so doubting will be sorted with bank Holidays anyone know how long should give them before escalating it as I know they can move quickly when they want to 🤗x

I've just found this series of threads after a general Google of DLA waiting times.

I imagine our scan date (a new claim for DD) to be the last week in August, I ought to check.

I just googled as I've not heard anything apart from our confirmation of application letter back in September so thought I should check.

Seeing these threads which seem to be reaching full capacity of 1000 posts every few weeks, I'm wondering whether I've missed a memo: have I disadvantaged DD's claim process by not regularly contacting the DWP to request updates on the application? I just assumed they would get back to us once a decision had been made, or perhaps in order to request further details to inform their decision making, so I've not made any contact at all (bar submitting an additional report to be added to the evidence bundle 10 days after the original application was made). It's as if the long waiting times for anything clinical / SEND related have stretched my expectations for how long I'm prepared to wait to hear from agencies, and maybe I've just been too hands-off and trusting of the process in this instance, thinking they will get to our application in due course? I'm happy to continue to wait, but wonder whether I now ought to contact someone as that's what everyone else seems to be doing?

Hi all New to all this-have recently applied although I phone and received a dla application form back 24th June the official SD October 4th-no idea how any of this works ? my son has been diagnosed with ADHD, Tourette syndrome and suspected autism still waiting for the final diagnosis!

I don’t have any plans to contact them unless it gets to 20 weeks and I want to know if a decision is close. I understand checking if additional evidence has been received etc for peace of mind, but I feel it’s a case of they’ll get to it when they get to it x

They told me they didn’t have a timeframe in which to sort it. I waited a couple of weeks and then made a complaint online, after which they sorted it within a week I believe it was.

Not calling up won’t have impacted your daughters claim. People have called up for various reasons and just to check progress given we were given decision times of 11 weeks originally which in our case ended up being 20 weeks. If you’ve sent whatever evidence you felt will be relevant to your claim, I wouldn’t worry.