DLA wait times 74

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MR- Mandatory Reconsideration
NC- New Claim
COC- Change of Circumstances
SD- Scan Date
LRC- Low Rate Care
MRC- Middle Rate Care
HRC- High Rate Care
LRM- Lower Rate Mobility
HRM- Higher Rate Mobility

I know it is! Been a year tomorrow since I did my COC. Always worth calling up but prepare yourself for disappointment 😂

A year for a COC😬 where you declined and are now doing an MR? I was told the last time I called that they were training new people to help with claims and to give them up to year for my COC, it’s an absolute joke. I done COC in May and my kids needs have changed already and on newer medication, Hopefully you hear back soon🤞🏽X

Still waiting for Universal Credit to verify my children's identities, my next statement is due in a week. Is it worth calling them up?

Yes now doing an MR 26 weeks today on that one so COC took 6 months and MR taken 6 months. Things can change so much in the matter of months can't they? Surely it won't actually take a year for yours to go through. Hope not anyway lol. They seem to have caught up with the backlog on new claims now but COC and MR still taking so long

Crazy these wait times, people have been moaning about 3/4 months wait for new claims which is the wait time for anything you apply for now a days, cant imagine waiting a year with the MR especially when it’s for our kids which we wouldn’t apply for if they didn’t need it🙈 took 6 months of me asking the paediatrician for help with my little ones sleep and by the time he was prescribed melatonin and giving help his claim was made the day he was prescribed and he was awarded LRC because I had no evidence of his sleep so I had to do a COC and the melatonin barley even helps so everything is just a big waiting game. Hopefully they start prioritising MR and COC as it’s a hell of a long wait to possibly be declined X

For hrm especially smi need professionals evidence across the board that is able to tick off every single point. It would have to be a professional that has diagnosed severe impairment of intelligence. Tbh 99.9% of people are declined HRM under SMI rules as its extremely extremely hard criteria to meet.

Dla all go on the extra care needs and child has and what a person has to do for them, not on diagnosis. So if it does have to go to MR make sure you detail all the care you have to give over and above a typical child of the same age. Spell it all out fir them in black and blue.

New poster 😊original scan date august last year awarded low rate care in December,mandatory reconsideration started in January 27 weeks today,just called and they haven’t changed it 😢now for tribunal,any idea how long these take please?

I’m still here!

new claim scan date 26/02. So I’m on 20 weeks.

Waiting for a renewal - last payment today claim runs out 29/07

Hey what was your scan date for MR? I'm not sure about tribunals but I've got a feeling I'll be going this same route, hopefully it's not as long a wait as the MR!

Hi it’s was 7th January,they made the decision on the 10th july.just had a look tribunals are taking a year🤦🏼‍♀️

WK 20 exactly today for MR sent 25.2.25 - anyone heard anything back yet from around that date?

NC SD 13/5/25
NC SD 15/5/25
NC SD 13/6/25

Hello Everyone, I know I have abit of a wait to go yet but I was just wondering what the holding queue is I phoned for SD 13/5/25 to see if they had received extra evidence I had sent in and they told me it's in a holding queue. How long was people in the holding queue for. Thank you in advance

still here too!
NC SD 03/06

Just called an my renewal is in holding que to be reviewed. Makes me even more anxious

Im.still.here 21st March i
Had a letter they needed to see my id marriage certificate as iv got married proof of bill

Hi all has anybody heard anything from applying for carers allowance? I applied on the 26th June, a day after daughter was awarded

For reference I'm not on UC and work part time so should be eligible they say 6 weeks wait buy not heard a thing x

Unfortunately most places in the uk its at very least 1 year. Most is 18 months

Carers usually take at least 4 weeks. I believe it took nearly weeks for me

Any awards today 😫 mines still with DM- seems to be a long week probs a decline! X

Thanks, did they contact you at any point?

Did you call up again @Char4000 ?

Yes 😂 I’m so impatient lol. X

Anyone know what date they are on for COC. I’m 24+1 so hoping not much longer