DLA WAIT TIMES THREAD 63

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Please feel free to add your scan date and whether it's a new claim/mandatory reconsideration/change of circumstances or renewal.
New claims (NC) - people are being told the wait time has increased to 25 weeks! I would say most are done before this though around the 20 week mark?
Mandatory reconsideration (MC) and Change of circumstances (COC) is around 20-25 weeks.
Renewals tend to be between 15-20 weeks.
If you disagree with the outcome of an MR you can appeal and go to court (tribunal)
Scan date is the date DLA scan your application forms on to their system, if you downloaded your application forms then this will be from when your award will be backdated from. If you called up for forms then the date on those is the date yours will be backdated from.
If successful and claiming universal credit (UC) please update them as this will entitle you to disabled child element adding extra to your award.

Yeah by what she said love hopefully yours won’t be too long and hopefully it wont take 25 weeks like she said I was so nervous ringing lol fingers crossed crossed we get good news 🤞😊

@Glitzxx I'm on hold to them now . Ringing about my son's birth certificate not being received back . But il ask for an update too . Il let you know what they say !

Good luck i rang today and they said not been looked at yet ill probs call in a week and check then 🤣🤣

Yes please hun good luck to you :)

@Keepitup88 i was told that am ganna need to call the dla again and ask for a new claim and do the form again as she is worse than she was 6 months ago iv just spoke to my health visitor and she’s said she is going to have a meeting with her school for supporting letters and my gp to refer her to twinkle house aswell iv just got off the phone now and dla have sent a full new form and I’ll have to add all this evidence to the form I just didn’t give enough supporting evidence why I think she was denied was shocked to be honest and all supporting letters you have if send them in the more the better x@TheNattyReader yea I rang them before and was told so I rang back for MR and they send another form for me to do again x

Did you ask for a written statement of reasons?

Can I ask how long did you wait? It’s has been with a decision maker for nearly 2 weeks no outcome as of yet

Hi been silently following along for a while. MR scan date 03/09 still waiting 😐

@Glitzxx lady was really nice on the phone , said that it's with a case manager . Whatever that means ? I know it's different to a decision maker. Then I got the usually reel off about claims taking 25 weeks . And they don't know where my sons birth certificate is but it's on their system 😂

What does a case manager do ?

i think mine will be a decline then as yours and the other ladys are being looked at :( ill ring tomoz and ask again and no idea good luck :)

@Glitzxx I wouldn't presume it's a decline for you .

I think the case manager might just check everything is filled in correctly on the form and if they have the correct evidence they need to look at the claim ? Before it goes to the decision maker maybe ?

I presume so im not all in the know about all this tbh do keep me updated tho its lovely seeing so many rewards are going out makes me happy for people :) x

That happened to me, same scan date. Rang Friday and it was in the que. Rang Monday to ask if extra evidence was received and was told dm made a decision.

my scans date for MR 20th August. Recieved an award last Tuesday 29th. Backpack came yesterday. We were uplifted from MRC to HRC but no mobility. I am hoping now we have HRC it will help consider under SMI/VUW. DM had form less than 24hrs. Monday I found out assigned to case manager and Tuesday morning award. When is the last time you called for an update?

Option 4 rather than 2 ☺️

both our mr dates were at the same date. My first claim was from December 2023 however my son didn’t have a diagnosis at the time so I asked for mr in August. Are you going to tribunal? My son was awarded hrc first time round. I called and asked for an update today but decision maker hasn’t made a decision yet. She asked me if it’s ok if she contacts the school and she has. Not sure why she is taking so long to make a decision.

Does anyone know why some decision makers take weeks to make decisions? They have all the info from myself and my sons school 😳

SD 27/09 Had a phone call yesterday to go over some points and received a message this morning to say my child qualifies - not sure on rates etc as will have to wait for letter/payment, whichever come first

Hi my some has been getting carers since age of 7 when he was diagnosed and then got declined in October for renewal so I did MR 6th November and sent them some evidence. In statement of reasons they said that his behaviour issues wasnt basically proof that that it was down to him having autism which they also said there was no diagnosis but there is I so sent that to but since then I tried to get him into cahms as he got a knife out a few weeks back and they come a decision that they don't think it's down to mental health and that it appears that this behaviour is down to neurodiversity and possible ADHD which he has also been referred for so I sent this letter as evidence as cahms are stating that they don't think mental health but down to him having autism and possible ADHD. Do you think this evidence will help my case?

She might be off work etc, it might be worth escalating if you are passed 25 weeks. That’s the time limit now. Yeah just appealed via tribunal, we got our diagnosis literally two weeks ago aswell.

Yeah that’s true probably that. It will be 25 weeks next week. Did you ask for them to look under smi or under vuw?

COC 19th August still waiting 😫 anyone else just fed up waiting

Hi my son has been getting dla since age of 7 when he was diagnosed and then got declined in October for renewal so I did MR 6th November and sent them some evidence. In statement of reasons they said that his behaviour issues wasnt basically proof that that it was down to him having autism which they also said there was no diagnosis but there is I so sent that to but since then I tried to get him into cahms as he got a knife out a few weeks back and they come a decision that they don't think it's down to mental health and that it appears that this behaviour is down to neurodiversity and possible ADHD which he has also been referred for so I sent this letter as evidence as cahms are stating that they don't think mental health but down to him having autism and possible ADHD. Do you think this evidence will help my case?

I think my reasons were poorly written as I have all the evidence. I’ve written a proper statement now highlighting the evidence that applies to the flow chat. We have an ECHP with 1-1 and special placement. Also I was concentrating on night needs mostly. I’ve submitted it agian and waiting to hear now. It’s written in plain terms by paediatrician, GP, teacher, SALT, OT and Educational psychologist. I think now I am going down the SMI route as we got diagnosis and HRC. What about yourself?

Ok I thought with the tribunal they don’t accept new evidence? They’ll go by what you had sent them for the first claim and mr.