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Originally Posted by Thomas T
I had a bad time with the forms for DLA, luckily I had someone from sight concern out to help me.
He also helped me when my sight got worse to re do them and got me through my appeal.
No doubt I AM thick because if I'd filled the forms out I'd have got smeg all.
Mind you I understand the questions have changed since my appeal came through last year.
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The thing is dilli, that you have a specific issue that made it difficult for you to fill the forms in - the guy from Sight Concern did basically the same thing as Mrs Nug used to do as part of her job, which was help those who weren't sure to fill it in correctly.
There's no way that you're thick just because you may have filled it out incorrectly - the problems that you have with your sight mean that filling in the forms would automatically be more difficult for you than it would (for example) for me. Having said that, I'm frankly astonished that yours went to appeal.
According to Mrs Nug, the best thing anybody could do if they have to fill these forms in is to seek out someone for advice /assistance - if you need it, try your CAB or Council, and they can (hopefully) sort it for you.