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Dla medical

  • Sammylou
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12 years 1 month ago #80654 by Sammylou
Dla medical was created by Sammylou
Hi all. Bit of a rant sorry.
Have had dla for approx 10 years now as well as ib. Have begun the transfer to esa. In their wisdom i am also going thro dla renewal. Each ti e i have done this i have been refused and gone to appeal. I have now won 5 tribunals (unanimous) over the last 6 years. They just dont learn. I get hrm and lrc. This time i have not had a rejection, just getting yet another home visit from atos. The last report was quite good form me (!!!!!) so i sent it in. Didnt work tho, hes coming again.
What i would like to know tho is this.
I have heard that an esa medical can affect dla. The dla exam is coming first so will they use that for esa or will i still have to have 2?
If the dla report is again suppotive and i get an award and the esa one is not will they ignore the dla one and cancel award later. My dla medical is this week but my esa forms are not due back til 8 th feb.
Many thanks for your info and your experiences

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  • bro58
12 years 1 month ago #80658 by bro58
Replied by bro58 on topic Re:Dla medical
Sammylou wrote:

Hi all. Bit of a rant sorry.
Have had dla for approx 10 years now as well as ib. Have begun the transfer to esa. In their wisdom i am also going thro dla renewal. Each ti e i have done this i have been refused and gone to appeal. I have now won 5 tribunals (unanimous) over the last 6 years. They just dont learn. I get hrm and lrc. This time i have not had a rejection, just getting yet another home visit from atos. The last report was quite good form me (!!!!!) so i sent it in. Didnt work tho, hes coming again.
What i would like to know tho is this.
I have heard that an esa medical can affect dla. The dla exam is coming first so will they use that for esa or will i still have to have 2?
If the dla report is again suppotive and i get an award and the esa one is not will they ignore the dla one and cancel award later. My dla medical is this week but my esa forms are not due back til 8 th feb.
Many thanks for your info and your experiences


Hi SL,

The DWP Decision Maker, can choose to use any information that he has access to, to help him come to a decision on an award on ESA and DLA.

It has been known for DM's to use a ESA medical report as an aid to access a DLA award, and vice versa. Especially if something in either report is contradictory to an award of the other.

As you will be aware though DLA and ESA are totally different benefits with different qualifying criteria, although there are a few "crossovers".

bro58

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