Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
Whether or not your child is entitled to DLA is based on what help they need with very specific things because of their illness, disability, or difference that another child of the same age would not.
The application process is tricky and lots of parents and carers whose children who should get the benefit find they are turned down to start with or given a lower award. If this happens to you, ask for a mandatory reconsideration. All unfair decisions should be challenged.
If they don’t change the decision at the first stage, ask for an appeal.
90% of people who used our guides or tools had the decisions changed in their favour either at the mandatory reconsideration stage or tribunal appeal. It is worth the effort!
I got an unfair DLA decision
I want to appeal a DLA decision
(I have a mandatory reconsideration decision)
I am going to a DLA appeal hearing
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