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Originally Posted by weenie
Let's hope it helps many other's who need it too. My friend has Crohns and she had to appeal to get her DLA and while waiting for the appeal it made her illness worse with the stress it caused them.
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That appears to be one of the major issues at the moment, going through the process is extremely stressful and some people who should be getting it just give up. I know someone who clearly has problems but had to fight and appeal for almost two years before he got the DLA. Had such a big lump sum in the end they had to spend some of it quickly otherwise they would have had some other benefit stopped for having more savings than they were allowed. Have a feeling these back payments pay for quite a few holidays which are needed to get over the stress caused to get as far as a payment.