There is nothing I expect you to say, nothing I want any of you to do, it's all ok, just absolutely have to rant and then get on wihth it.
Got home to a letter that says 'we recently wrote to you about your DLA. As we have reduced your award of the higher rate of the mobility component of the DLA you are no longer eligible for the Motorbility Scheme. blah blah blah.'
So my first thought was where is the letter telling me about this decision and oh my god how can they reduce the my award.
So rang up and explained I appeared to be missing a letter. Was told no, the letter I just read out was the decision letter. I said it couldn't be, I'd had these letters before and this was wrong and where in the letter I had did it explain why I wasn't being awarded the high rate? At which point I was told by the oik at the end of the phone 'if I would stop talking for a minute he was trying to explain why to me but I hadn't given him a chance'! How I kept my mouth shut I don't know.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, guess what, I was right, no surprise there, I am missing the decision letter. Took the oik a few more 'I know what I'm talking about little woman' type snidey comments before he had to climb off his high horse but we got there in the end.
From the information he had in front of him it would appear that someone somewhere along the line has deduced that DD1 can walk anything from 10 mins to 60 mins!
Hmmm, I'm thinking seeing as how it was DD1's school that submitted the other evidence / report that it was them that did scribbled 10 mins in the 'from' box and 60 mins in the 'to' box.
So I'll be going into school tomorrow and talking the wheelchair back off them as she can obviously walk to mass now then. All the time they have been pushing her in the wheelchair and she could have been walking it.
And then I start fighting. Cos that's how it works. Because why would they make it easy?