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Needsomelight · 26/11/2025 06:40

Hi all wondering if any of you could help me. My daughter’s DLA was renewed 12th October and the outcome was fantastic. HRC and LRM for 5 years. Now just yesterday I received another letter dated 18th November saying we have looked at your claim again and changed our decision. Same rates but reduced to 2 years instead of 5. Why?? I never asked them to look at the claim again. I didn’t need to the first outcome was so brilliant!! So I don’t understand why it’s been looked at again and the length of claim massively reduced? Anyone else had this? I did call them and the lady didn’t really know why, said she’d get whoever made the 2nd decision to call me and explain but they haven’t. I’m just gutted that we had it secured for 5 years and now it’s only 2 years.
Please can anyone let me know if they have any ideas on this
Thank you

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Irongirl71 · 26/11/2025 09:02

Needsomelight · 26/11/2025 06:40

Hi all wondering if any of you could help me. My daughter’s DLA was renewed 12th October and the outcome was fantastic. HRC and LRM for 5 years. Now just yesterday I received another letter dated 18th November saying we have looked at your claim again and changed our decision. Same rates but reduced to 2 years instead of 5. Why?? I never asked them to look at the claim again. I didn’t need to the first outcome was so brilliant!! So I don’t understand why it’s been looked at again and the length of claim massively reduced? Anyone else had this? I did call them and the lady didn’t really know why, said she’d get whoever made the 2nd decision to call me and explain but they haven’t. I’m just gutted that we had it secured for 5 years and now it’s only 2 years.
Please can anyone let me know if they have any ideas on this
Thank you

They do these reviews every now and again. My son had a review 6 months after his decision. They kept him the same though. I have 4 children on DLA and his was the only one that's had a review. But all 4 of there DLA lengths are 2 years. They all have ASD with development delays.

Needsomelight · 26/11/2025 09:09

Irongirl71 · 26/11/2025 09:02

They do these reviews every now and again. My son had a review 6 months after his decision. They kept him the same though. I have 4 children on DLA and his was the only one that's had a review. But all 4 of there DLA lengths are 2 years. They all have ASD with development delays.

Oh really? My daughters 12 and had DLA since she was 3 and we’ve never had a review before so I didn’t know this. Thank you for replying and letting me know. Appreciate it a lot 💖

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