For more information about Disability Living Allowance benefits, go to the Government's website. If you make a claim for Disability Living Allowance, you may be asked to have an assessment. This is usually because more information is needed before a decision about the claim can be made by DWP. The assessment will be carried out by our Healthcare Professional and is likely to be different from what you would expect from a GP or hospital consultant.
The Healthcare Professional is not there to diagnose or treat a medical condition but to assess how a condition affects you. To do this, the Healthcare Professional may or may not need to carry out a physical examination. The Healthcare Professional will gather information from your history. Firstly you can ask for a decision to be looked at again. You must normally ask for this within one month of the date of the decision you are challenging, although late requests will sometimes be accepted.
If you are still not happy with the outcome of the mandatory reconsideration, you can request an appeal. You must do this in writing using an appeal form a different form is used in Northern Ireland. You must normally do this within one month of the date on your mandatory reconsideration decision, although late appeals will sometimes be accepted.
Find out more about mandatory reconsiderations and appeals. Instead, getting DLA can lead to an increase in other benefits you receive or help you qualify for entitlements for the first time. Even if you get DLA for your child already, you may find that getting an increased rate will lead to something else. If your child gets the middle or the highest rate of the DLA care component, you might start to be treated as a carer under the benefits system.
Or, if you are getting Universal Credit , you can become exempt from having to take any steps to look for any work as condition of your claim.
You should get extra tax credits payments backdated in line with the DLA award. For families still getting payments for their children in their Income Support, getting DLA will lead to extra money being added to your Income Support, known as a disabled child premium and an enhanced disability premium if your child is awarded the highest rate of the care component.
If your child gets Income Support in their own right, then an award of DLA can lead to an increase in their benefit. If you get Housing Benefit or support with council tax , then getting DLA for your child may lead to extra benefit if you are not already getting your rent and council tax met in full.
If your disabled child cannot share a bedroom and because of this your Housing Benefit is reduced under the bedroom tax or local housing allowance rules, getting DLA care component at the middle or highest rate for them may help you get more Housing Benefit. Call our freephone helpline for further advice. Both Housing Benefit and support with council tax are means-tested, and any award will depend on your income and circumstances.
Help with road tax. If your child is awarded the highest rate of DLA mobility component, you may be exempt from paying Vehicle Excise Duty. Claimants are usually told about this when they are notified about the award of higher rate DLA mobility component.
All local authorities operate schemes for disabled people of any age to apply for a bus pass or voucher for free bus travel. In some areas, an essential, named carer accompanying the disabled person is also entitled to free travel.
If you live in England and have a two-year-old who is awarded DLA, this should mean that they qualify for 15 hours a week free early years education and childcare. See www. If your child already gets Disability Living Allowance DLA but their circumstances have changed and they now need more help, it may be possible to get their award increased. Any decision including a tribunal decision can be superseded by a decision maker.
If you are not happy with the outcome of a supersession you have the right to ask for a reconsideration and an appeal against that new decision in the usual way. If your child is aged 16 or above, reporting a change of circumstances that may affect their DLA award will lead to them coming off DLA and being assessed under the Personal Independence Payment rules instead.
If you have an existing award of DLA and you ask for it to be looked at again, there is a risk your award could go down rather than up. Our helpline can put you in touch with your local service: The mobility component continues to be paid.
You can find out more information about these rules in our factsheet on Benefits if your child is in residential accommodation.
DLA also used to be affected by stays in hospital, but the DLA hospital rules have now been scrapped for children aged under So long as your child was under 18 when they entered hospital, they can claim and be paid DLA as normal despite the fact that they are an in-patient.
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You could end up losing your DLA if you claim too early. Call the PIP enquiry line if you need more time. Relay UK - if you can't hear or speak on the phone, you can type what you want to say: then You can use Relay UK with an app or a textphone. You can find out how to use video relay on YouTube. Talk to an adviser at your nearest Citizens Advice if you need help doing this or follow our step by step guide to making a claim. You should arrange to see your doctor or other medical specialists as soon as possible, to get the evidence you need for your application.
You should send any evidence you already have, for example recent letters from the hospital that describe how your condition is at the moment. Your mobility will be reassessed when you move to PIP. You can talk to an adviser at your nearest Citizens Advice. You should return your vehicle within 8 weeks of your DLA payments stopping - or 26 weeks if you joined Motability before You might be entitled to a one-off payment from Motability when you return your vehicle, depending on its condition and when you joined Motability.
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