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Hi ... I feel my world is going to explode ... I am struggling real bad and I am baffled, confused, frustrated to name a few things how I have been feeling from December 28th 2012; my life has been turned on its head pardon the pun due to my condition and I called today for DLA forms ... to say I am daunted is an understatement as a guy who was usually self confident and out going is pretty much a recluse now with a crippling constant headache along with 6 -7 migraine attacks a day at its peak with 3 -4 at its least; I'm a disaster looking an outlet and some assistance ... anyone seen any cases of this here before? Thanks in advance

peteranthony001 wrote: Hi ... I feel my world is going to explode ... I am struggling real bad and I am baffled, confused, frustrated to name a few things how I have been feeling from December 28th 2012; my life has been turned on its head pardon the pun due to my condition and I called today for DLA forms ... to say I am daunted is an understatement as a guy who was usually self confident and out going is pretty much a recluse now with a crippling constant headache along with 6 -7 migraine attacks a day at its peak with 3 -4 at its least; I'm a disaster looking an outlet and some assistance ... anyone seen any cases of this here before? Thanks in advance

Hi pa001,

Welcome to Benefits and Work

We understand how daunting this can seem

The first thing to take into account, is that an award of DLA is given due to your Mobility Limitations, and/or your Care Needs as a result of any particular medical condition(s) and not the medical condition(s) themselves.

You should refer to our DLA Claims Guide as an aid to filling in your DLA Claim Form.

These can be found here :

DLA Guides

You may find the answers to some of your queries in our :

DLA FAQ’s

You may also find the following helpful :

DM Guide AA & DLA :

www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/dmgch61.pdf

DR UK DLA & AA :

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/f23.htm

You may also wish to have a look at :

The DWP A-Z of Medical Conditions

Take your time to read the information provided above, if you then have any further queries, please re-post on this topic and we will do our best to help.

If you do wish to make a claim for DLA, it is important that you do this before the 8th April, as after that, all new claims will be for PIP, and not DLA.

So your claim form would have to be filled in received and accepted by the DWP, before that date.

bro58

bro58 wrote:

peteranthony001 wrote: Hi ... I feel my world is going to explode ... I am struggling real bad and I am baffled, confused, frustrated to name a few things how I have been feeling from December 28th 2012; my life has been turned on its head pardon the pun due to my condition and I called today for DLA forms ... to say I am daunted is an understatement as a guy who was usually self confident and out going is pretty much a recluse now with a crippling constant headache along with 6 -7 migraine attacks a day at its peak with 3 -4 at its least; I'm a disaster looking an outlet and some assistance ... anyone seen any cases of this here before? Thanks in advance

Hi pa001,

Welcome to Benefits and Work

We understand how daunting this can seem

The first thing to take into account, is that an award of DLA is given due to your Mobility Limitations, and/or your Care Needs as a result of any particular medical condition(s) and not the medical condition(s) themselves.

You should refer to our DLA Claims Guide as an aid to filling in your DLA Claim Form.

These can be found here :

DLA Guides

You may find the answers to some of your queries in our :

DLA FAQ’s

You may also find the following helpful :

DM Guide AA & DLA :

www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/dmgch61.pdf

DR UK DLA & AA :

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/f23.htm

You may also wish to have a look at :

The DWP A-Z of Medical Conditions

Take your time to read the information provided above, if you then have any further queries, please re-post on this topic and we will do our best to help.

If you do wish to make a claim for DLA, it is important that you do this before the 8th April, as after that, all new claims will be for PIP, and not DLA.

So your claim form would have to be filled in received and accepted by the DWP, before that date.

bro58

Thanks for the quick response . . . Forgot to say I'm in Northern Ireland ... does that deadline apply

bro58 wrote:

peteranthony001 wrote: Hi ... I feel my world is going to explode ... I am struggling real bad and I am baffled, confused, frustrated to name a few things how I have been feeling from December 28th 2012; my life has been turned on its head pardon the pun due to my condition and I called today for DLA forms ... to say I am daunted is an understatement as a guy who was usually self confident and out going is pretty much a recluse now with a crippling constant headache along with 6 -7 migraine attacks a day at its peak with 3 -4 at its least; I'm a disaster looking an outlet and some assistance ... anyone seen any cases of this here before? Thanks in advance

Hi pa001,

Welcome to Benefits and Work

We understand how daunting this can seem

The first thing to take into account, is that an award of DLA is given due to your Mobility Limitations, and/or your Care Needs as a result of any particular medical condition(s) and not the medical condition(s) themselves.

You should refer to our DLA Claims Guide as an aid to filling in your DLA Claim Form.

These can be found here :

DLA Guides

You may find the answers to some of your queries in our :

DLA FAQ’s

You may also find the following helpful :

DM Guide AA & DLA :

www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/dmgch61.pdf

DR UK DLA & AA :

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/f23.htm

You may also wish to have a look at :

The DWP A-Z of Medical Conditions

Take your time to read the information provided above, if you then have any further queries, please re-post on this topic and we will do our best to help.

If you do wish to make a claim for DLA, it is important that you do this before the 8th April, as after that, all new claims will be for PIP, and not DLA.

So your claim form would have to be filled in received and accepted by the DWP, before that date.

bro58

Hi pa001,

Just to clarify with regards to the implementation of PIP :

From 8 April 2013 new claims to PIP will be taken in the controlled start
area in the North West and part of the North East of England.

From June 2013
New claims to PIP will be taken in all remaining areas of Great Britain.

So it will only be April 8th if you living in one of the controlled start areas of the country.

bro58

bro58 wrote:

bro58 wrote:

peteranthony001 wrote: Hi ... I feel my world is going to explode ... I am struggling real bad and I am baffled, confused, frustrated to name a few things how I have been feeling from December 28th 2012; my life has been turned on its head pardon the pun due to my condition and I called today for DLA forms ... to say I am daunted is an understatement as a guy who was usually self confident and out going is pretty much a recluse now with a crippling constant headache along with 6 -7 migraine attacks a day at its peak with 3 -4 at its least; I'm a disaster looking an outlet and some assistance ... anyone seen any cases of this here before? Thanks in advance

Hi pa001,

Welcome to Benefits and Work

We understand how daunting this can seem

The first thing to take into account, is that an award of DLA is given due to your Mobility Limitations, and/or your Care Needs as a result of any particular medical condition(s) and not the medical condition(s) themselves.

You should refer to our DLA Claims Guide as an aid to filling in your DLA Claim Form.

These can be found here :

DLA Guides

You may find the answers to some of your queries in our :

DLA FAQ’s

You may also find the following helpful :

DM Guide AA & DLA :

www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/dmgch61.pdf

DR UK DLA & AA :

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/f23.htm

You may also wish to have a look at :

The DWP A-Z of Medical Conditions

Take your time to read the information provided above, if you then have any further queries, please re-post on this topic and we will do our best to help.

If you do wish to make a claim for DLA, it is important that you do this before the 8th April, as after that, all new claims will be for PIP, and not DLA.

So your claim form would have to be filled in received and accepted by the DWP, before that date.

bro58

Hi pa001,

Just to clarify with regards to the implementation of PIP :

From 8 April 2013 new claims to PIP will be taken in the controlled start
area in the North West and part of the North East of England.

From June 2013
New claims to PIP will be taken in all remaining areas of Great Britain.

So it will only be April 8th if you living in one of the controlled start areas of the country.

bro58

With respect to my post above, and your query, I cannot see any reference to one of the start up areas being in NI.

Here is the actual document :

www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/pip-toolkit-factshee...13-new-claimants.pdf

Therefore, unless any of the other Mods have further input, we can assume that you have until June 2013.

You may wish to make local inquiries : www.adviceni.net/advice/index.cfm

Here are three links that contain all the information that we have on PIP.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/help-for-claimants/dla/#pip

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/personal-independence-payment-pip

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/forum?view=top...id=10&id=85481#85481


bro58