Re: DLA - Phone Call this afternoon from DWP - Help

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Have you got a claim under review? Or just applied? What he needs at school at home are two different things anyways

Mx

Got a phone call from the DWP regarding my son's DLA this afternoon. Kept asking me how many one-to-one hours help my son gets at school as detailed in his Statement. I explained that he doesn't go to mainstream but attends a special school for children with autism. She then pressed me on what the ratio of teachers to pupils was. When I said 1:3 - she said 'so he copes without one-to-one?' and I stupidly said yes....I'd just got home from picking my son up from school and was hot and bothered and rather taken aback by the call.With all the stuff in the news at the moment, do you think they are trying to take our DLA away? Am so worried as I really need the money..... He, of course, gets one-to-one at certain times when needed but the woman obviously doesn't understand the difference in mainstream/special school settings.Any thoughts?Lxx

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.....can't stand these people. I'd ask the school to spell out exactly

what your son needs/gets for 1:1 - worst case scenario - in writing,

together with details of the school and its intake (written by the

school on headed paper), and get your son's Statement (if it's a good

one ie. quantified therapies, every problem going spelt out in plain

English, need for 1:1 etc) and fax it off fast. Hate to add this but

remind them in your covering letter that your son has a

neurodevelopmental disorder for which there is no cure ie. he will not

get better, and ask that they consider extending his current DLA award

(if you're happy with whichever level it is) until he is 16, so you

don't have to keep renewing every 3 years. I did this. Huge relief.

Btw, I don't believe there is no cure. It's just that we haven't found

it yet. Meanwhile, biomed and HBOT can get you an awful long way.

Best of luck...

> Got a phone call from the DWP regarding my son's DLA this afternoon.

> Kept asking me how many one-to-one hours help my son gets at school

> as

> detailed in his Statement. I explained that he doesn't go to

> mainstream but attends a special school for children with autism. She

> then pressed me on what the ratio of teachers to pupils was. When I

> said 1:3 - she said 'so he copes without one-to-one?' and I stupidly

> said yes....I'd just got home from picking my son up from school and

> was hot and bothered and rather taken aback by the call.

>

> With all the stuff in the news at the moment, do you think they are

> trying to take our DLA away? Am so worried as I really need the

> money..... He, of course, gets one-to-one at certain times when

> needed

> but the woman obviously doesn't understand the difference in

> mainstream/special school settings.

>

> Any thoughts?

>

> Lxx

>

>

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> DISCLAIMER

> No information contained in this post is to be construed as medical

> advice. If you need medical advice, please seek it from a suitably

> qualified practitioner.

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much for the advice, . It's just one battle after

another..................

> > Got a phone call from the DWP regarding my son's DLA this afternoon.

> > Kept asking me how many one-to-one hours help my son gets at school

> > as

> > detailed in his Statement. I explained that he doesn't go to

> > mainstream but attends a special school for children with autism. She

> > then pressed me on what the ratio of teachers to pupils was. When I

> > said 1:3 - she said 'so he copes without one-to-one?' and I stupidly

> > said yes....I'd just got home from picking my son up from school and

> > was hot and bothered and rather taken aback by the call.

> >

> > With all the stuff in the news at the moment, do you think they are

> > trying to take our DLA away? Am so worried as I really need the

> > money..... He, of course, gets one-to-one at certain times when

> > needed

> > but the woman obviously doesn't understand the difference in

> > mainstream/special school settings.

> >

> > Any thoughts?

> >

> > Lxx

> >

> >

> >

> > ------------------------------------

> >

> > DISCLAIMER

> > No information contained in this post is to be construed as medical

> > advice. If you need medical advice, please seek it from a suitably

> > qualified practitioner.

> >

[Guest guest]

> Thanks so much for the advice, . It's just one battle after

another..................

***i know that feeling. i added 2 new disabilities to my DLA claim and

all of a sudden my indefinite middle rate award is 2 years less? im

thinking if my ASD and associated disabilities havent gone away in 16

years why would they improve in another 16? This is all to do with

PIP. The good news is that i know when my claim will be reviewed

November 2014, the bad news is i might loose my mobility car.

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