Useful info when completing a DLA claim
Last Updated on Sunday, 15 May 2011 13:30 Written by Shannon Dalshaug Sunday, 16 November 2008 16:42
Step one
Write out a pain diary that tracks what your care and mobility needs are, levels of pain, types of meds used, symptoms of your conditions that effect you etc. also include the time of day you need help and for how long each time.
Step two
Take diary to your GP so they can be aware of what problems you actually have as they can not guess when they're completing the claim forms and can only report what they have either seen or you've reported to them.
Incapacity Benefit Applications
Last Updated on Sunday, 15 May 2011 13:32 Written by Shannon Dalshaug Sunday, 16 November 2008 16:38
There are some things you can do to help yourself with completing an Incapacity Benefit claim and getting medical evidence to back it up. With an application for Incapacity Benefit(referred to as IB in this document) the Department will be trying to assess whether or not you’re capable of doing your job(called the own occupation assessment), and later on they will be considering whether or not you might be capable of any form of a job(called the all works test).
Incapacity Benefit has now been replaced with a new benefit called 'Employment Support Allowance' which began on the 27th of October 2008. We will be preparing a hints and tips guide for this soon. For those who are currently receiving IB or Income Support (IS) for ill health as long as you continue to meet the entitlement criteria your benefit will continue for the time being, eventually though all IB and IS for ill health will move over to the new benefit.
Tribunal Hints and Tips
Last Updated on Sunday, 15 May 2011 13:32 Written by Shannon Dalshaug Sunday, 16 November 2008 16:33
Now that you've been turned down for benefit, you are probably wondering ‘Now what do I do?’ This document is aimed at helping you on the steps that you may have to take in order to take your decision to appeal. While this may seem a daunting prospect, there is a lot of help that you can take advantage of. Many people have already been down this route and succeeded.
Guide to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Last Updated on Sunday, 04 April 2010 18:58 Written by Janet Horton Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:52
This information is taken from the Benefits and Work website. There is a guide that Janet Horton our Benefits helpline Advisor can send to anyone who thinks they are likely to affected by the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) in the near future. There is a test on the Benefits and Works website where you can find whether you are in the support group or work-related Activity group for this benefit - this is available to anyone you don't have to become a member of benefits and work to access this test.
Read the following Questions and Answers that will hopefully answer some of your questions on the newly introduced benefit. An important thing to remember is that if you are already in receipt of Incapacity Benefit then this will not affect you initially. Also this does not have any impact on DLA or Attendance allowance.
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