Supersession FAILED despite help from this site

I'd recommend an appointment with an experienced advisor at the CAB or welfare rights service. They can talk with you and review all the paperwork, advise you and take neccesary steps. It is a delicate predicament and one that needs face to face advice .

Keep on keeping on. See my post about reconsideration won for Dla. It has taken me 4 years to get my husband to a decent rate of DLA. It took 2 years to get him low rate mobility 2 appeals a super-session failure and then the reconsideration over turned the super-session decision without us having to go to appeal so it is worth keeping on and asking for your claim to be looked at again.
They can't just stop your DLA.They will send you a renewal form. If you don't get one shortly ring for one as they usually send it out 6 months before renewal

Mm,

Thanks for your comment. Yes, I think it is due for renewal in May 2011. This is one of the reasons I am worried about appealing because if I were successful at appeal it would only be for a few months and then I'd have to start all over again anyway.

I've had a patchy history with DLA. I was first awarded MRC and LRM at first claim in 1998. Then at renewal in 2001 I received NOTHING at all. Appealed and the appeal was dismissed, despite having plenty of medical evidence and an advocate from CAB. Six months later, also in 2001, I re-applied and was awarded MRC and LRM! I simply don't understand how that can happen.

DLA only made awards to me at three year intervals up to 2007 -- that award of MRC and LRM was made until 2011 (4 years). I didn't bother to try getting the rate changed when the angina began in 2009 as I thought it would fail. I only tried this September under pressure from Occupational Therapist and CPN! I am not surprised to be honest.

Like yourself, it is the mobility component I really need as I am practically housebound and have to rely on others whom I cannot afford to pay when they take me to appointments etc.

I think, with this government's spending review, it is going to become more and more difficult to get anything at all from DLA, no matter what one's problems are.

KittyKat

Hello

Have a look at this

www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/specialist-g...-medical-conditions/

and see if you are beinh short changhed on your award length. The suggested award lengths in these linked pages are not mandatory but should indicate if your awards are in line

The approach to DLA is probably not going to radically change in the short term. There is a chance it will become more difficult for some to qaulify in a few years time, and a major reassessment is planned for claimants, scheduled I think for 2013 of thereabouts

Hi KittyKat

There is only you that an make that decision and i totally understand what you must be going through!! You should get your renewal papers through i got mine 6 months prior to my award ending. If you get as much evidence and face to face support as you can in preparation for this and send your renewal back asap. There is a risk that by sending them back early they stop your award from the date of you signing them, but in my case i sent mine back nearly 3 months early and my award was increased and backdated to the date i signed the renewal.

I really feel for you and really understand your predicament. My advice to you is to add additional information telling them in great detail what help you need. My additional info stretched to 6 typed pages, with a complete diary of my day to day life. As i said earlier i was awarded HRC and no mobility for 5 years, even though i explained severe mobility problems. I am now too scared to appeal or ask for it to be looked at again.

I wish you all the luck in the world but you have to make the right decision for you. I took the cowards way out and did nothing, but it wasnt a decision i took lightly.

Keep your chin up and get advice
Mm

hi there
i need some surport this is my second appeal i think if i fail this appeal ive not got any fight left.
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