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Originally Posted by scastle
True, but if they declare they work (and IMO they should), the level of DLA awarded may be affected by their salary.
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DLA is not means tested and earnings don't lower the award.
Talking about means testing takes me back to the time I made my first claim for benefit. This was for income support and incapacity benefit which meant that the claim would be means tested. I filled in the forms and included in the section about capital that I held £7 in premium bonds. These were bought some 34 years previously when we first got married. The problem then became that they would not allow me income support as I could not send them the premium bonds. They wanted to see the actual bonds as proof that I had the amount of capital that I stated. It didn't matter that the £7 didn't make any difference to the amount I could claim. It took me quite a while to get duplicates and I actually found the original bonds before they arrived. It isn't as if the bonds themselves have any details on them regarding the holder.
The DWP are so insistant on claimants following all the rules strictly to the letter but completely disregard them as far as they themselves are concerned. You fill a form in that takes half a tree to get enough paper for and send it in only to wait weeks or months for a decision. Quite often they tell you not to contact them about the claim for at least seven weeks or more and even if you do after that period of time you still have to wait and wait and wait.