benefit test yet?

it scares me a little ...then i will have to go through it all over again for the DLA tests

I dont get Incapacity B just DLA. Have heard nothing yet about re testing for DLA qualification.What's the news?

No not yet Its a tough test most people fail and have to go through an appeal. As I understand it its all done on a questionnaire and not a medical.
The DLA is the same if you can move even if its in a wheelchair it doesn't count for mobility . So even if you have no legs you are still classed as mobile.

THIS GOVERNMENT STINKS the disabled are going to pay for there mistakes and a lot of us are going to suffer I'm afraid.

Man that sucks,i really feel sorry for you guys.have they done anything like this before?KICK AS!!!

Tommy.P.

DLA testing starts in 2013

The Disabled in England are treated as crap all ways put last by whichever party is in power.

I've just put my DLA renewal forms in a couple of weeks ago and waiting to hear. I did make sure I updated my GP with a summary of what I'd put on the forms, to make sure we were both singing from the same song sheet on it. I've put pretty much the same stuff down as last time and the time before, but have absolutely no confidence it will come out at the same level. Just glad I don't have to do the IB/ESA thing at the moment - managing to hang onto a pretty flexible sort of job that works OK for me at the moment.

Good luck with it cemc I hope it goes through for you mine are not due till October.

thanks for that. Presumably we will be summoned each when it is our turn.

Is a devil that I was awarded this only 2 years ago after 45 years of AS, now I have to do it all again..........cripes.......

Got a letter today saying they were contacting GP for a report. I have already made the point of updating GP and handing in a summary of what I put on the form, so hopefully there won't be too much disagreement on it and I won't have to go off and be seen by one of DWPs docs. Still, I hate the waiting and not knowing. I can't imagine having to go through all that ESA stuff though. From what I have heard it is an absolute nightmare.

Shugs just re-applied for the mobility part, he already gets the higher allowance for personal care but nothing for mobility. It never bothered us before but now he's having to use a stick and has become more and more unsteady, having stumbles and trips, we're not confident it will be agreed though!

That mobility part is just so hard to describe accurately. I can actually walk 25 yards. I can do 10-25 yards quite a lot of times during the day some days. I can walk 50 yards in one go if I have to, and sometimes even at reasonable speed (with crutches). But I can't walk any distance at all without very quickly getting into severe pain or discomfort - not even just in butt, hip, SI area but in my arms T-spine and shoulders because to walk at all I need crutches and that puts a lot of strain on arms and upper back. Try explaining all that in the spaces they give you on the DLA form with the questions they ask and it just doesn't work at all. Still, I got the mobility component last time, so am hoping I get it again on this latest renewal.

Good luck for shugs.

Yeah we had problems too, it's the same with the blue badge. One of the questions was something along the lines of how far can you walk with no pain (or something like that) of course the answer is 0 as he's in pain 24/7 but he can walk, he's not physically incapable of walking, just always in pain that worsens when walking. He struggles now too with his neck, can't look up, he's even had a parking fine as the details for disabled drivers was attached to a wall above the height where Shug can see...lol. it's a joke really, he appealed the parking fine and won.

Sometimes we feel guilty "asking" for extra money while Shug is still working but that extra money allows us the priveledge of owning a 2nd car that enables Shug to continue to work. No extra money = no car, no car = unable to work. I try to justify the fact that the extra money Shug claims is only a pittance compared to what he'd get from the government if he couldn't work!

Good luck to everyone applying or re-applying.

Shug sounds in a kind of similar place to me. I work as well (currently 25-30 hours a week), and yet get high level care and mobility. I don't think most people realise just how difficult things are for me if they only see me during work hours, and apparently coping well with work. What they don't see is all the stuff I describe on the DLA application form. Up until a year and a half ago I was on incapacity benefit and getting the full range of benefits. I thought I would never work again, but then this job came up that suits me physically and is really flexible so I managed to get back to work. I wouldn't be able to work if I didn't have that extra money from DLA and disability related working tax credits. Its things like having a reliable and easy to drive car, being able to buy those extra home appliances to make life easier (a good clothes drier, large freezer,etc) the extra costs of convenience food, the ability to pay someone to do housework for me, etc. DLA really does enable me to work, and like shug, it costs the government a load less to pay me full rate DLA than it would if I couldn't work.