How are these medical assessments for DLA going to work then?

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Is anyone else worried about this? My son's "medical" needs are not in your face but exist and are significantly time consuming. A stranger looking at him would say he's fine, healthy. But thats because his problems are well controlled through a lot of hardwork. Are they going to do an endoscopy everytime we apply for DLA to make sure our dr isn't lying?

Also, his other needs are learning needs, not medical needs. Alot of people on DLA don't have medical needs but have significant learning needs. How on earth are they going to do a medical assessment on these people and these people get their entitlement?

Plus, my ds already has a large number of appointments. He's under 14 different health and support professionals. So we need to add another appointment and this assessor is going to claim to know and understand him when specialists in their field struggle with my DS on some of his problems?

Its all crazy if you ask me. Why can't there be letters from all the specialists for our children?

what about those with lifetime awards, is life time now refering to a preticular parliment?

people lwho dont understand danger or have to be told repeatadlty to do the most simple self care things, will likly showup on any assessment as work capable if it looks at the physical side only

Yup

DS3 has a til- 16 award (like gold dust nowadays) and that will be reviewd too

No matter; it took several seconds in the presence of ds3 for the SW to realise there was A Need LOL

The NAS has a statement in response to the changes on their website.

"The changes proposed today will not take place until 2013 and so it will not affect people who currently receive DLA before then. However, the NAS has very strong concerns about this statement.

We will be working closely with the Department of Work and Pensions, who oversee DLA, to ensure that people with autism who need DLA are not deprived of it as a result of the announced changes.

If you would like to be involved in our work on this, please send us your name and contact details, and any views and experiences, to [email protected]. "

my ds has had dla since 3 his last award was from 11-16 so it runs out in 3 weeks a friend of mine only had to apply twice once her ds became an adult[16] at 18 he was given a lifetime award although I don't know what will happen to that award now.

I went to a tribunal December last year and was awarded high rate care and high rate mobility for my son who has ASD and ADHD until Jan 2014. Will they overturn this decission and ask for a medical assessment in 2013 or because i have been to a tribunal will it just be reassessed after jan 2014 when i have to re-apply

Panicing a bit now as i understood by various websites that the re-assessement and medicals were for adults of working age

It appeasr from various statements Osbourne has amde that this is designed to get people into work-

in fact it rather appears he has mixed DLA and EMA up when making up the budget (childiren into work? And DLA pays ALONGSIDE work)

shameful

WHAT???? Oh no now I am panicking again!

I can work, I have done, but when I start working after uni I will struggle to meet my transport costs, DLA would help that. They won't take it will they??

LV Don't panic!

truth is I have no idea: I am also panicking- we have choice of lose house or hand kids to SSD if they cancel DLA- am trying to find work but so little I can fitr around them, and so very many looking.

And I am panicking that nno mention of kids emans October budget will mean theyc ancel kids DLA, despite no evidence at all (except a nagginf feeling that iuf you are aq Tory you either need to justify it all as I deserve ir or if I can do ait anyone can and i think DC comes in to the latter branding- ie do it yourself or cut whinging)

IF they have confused EMA they will never admit it but may well aim their tsrgets elsewhere at the October Spending Review.

That's what I am hoping for. oraying, even.

Well teh thing foer people to do is shout: join whatever aprty states YOUR views, start blogs with tags people might use, write endless letetrs and email to politicians, papers, anyone.....

The more vulnerable people don;t have a voice: politicians know that. Rich people and MC people scared of ending up there write it off psychologically as something that happens to a different type of people: same thinking that people use to avoid taking disabled rights seriously.

Shout. Shout loudly and keep getting louder until people listen.

(And dont think its too expensive no idea about tory costs (wouldn;t guess would ya ) but Lib Dems something life £6 per annum; Labour £1.65 a month; Greens (better social policy than you might guess) well under a fiver pcm......... OK it has to bedgeted for, trust me I know that, but seriously worth considering.

why doesnt asd get a lifetime award (dla) anyway? its not like autism can be cured? if you have asd , you will always have asd.

Hi new here and really stressed out.

I dont know if anyone else is in the same position but my sons DLA is up on 9th July and after numerous letters from hospitals etc being recieved by them they are sending a doc out to see him. Could be sometime in the next 4 weeks ....... great that will be 3 weeks of me messing about with child tax credits.

Anyway the woman in Blackpool told me it seems they are doing this all over the place at the minute. Getting all the applicants medically assessed. As has already been said "what happened to 2013?"

Doms needs aren't high, but he gets lrc for his problems. I can see him losing that now, no way will a general run of the mill doc understand his illness when I cant get my GP to understand it.

Hi

My DS has autism and gets DLA at high rate for care. I'm about to apply for mobility as well as he is 5 in Dec.

I am lucky as local council has a Welfare Adviser who will come to yuor house and help fill out DLA and CA claims etc. I asked him about medical assessments for DLA and he told me that where medical assessments have been done in the past they generally have been done badly but the bit of light at the end of the tunnel is that he said that on appeal the awards are generally given - he represents claimants at appeal and he actually said he'd only lost one appeal.

I don't know if anyone else's local Coucnil has a service like this but I'd highly recommend using it if they have, ours is all free and I think it definitely helped me get DLA for my DS