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Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - appeal tribunals

Cover: Appealing against a Disability Living Allowance decision
If you're appealing against a disability living allowance (DLA) decision, the odds are on your side: more than 50% of all Disability Living Allowance (DLA) appeal tribunals are successful and the odds are as high as 70% if you attend an oral appeal tribunal with a representative. Our 16 page A4 factsheet 'Appealing against a disability living allowance decision' is a valuable introduction to:

  • deciding whether to appeal
  • completing a GL24 appeal form
  • completing the pre-hearing enquiry form
  • understanding the appeal papers
  • attending a disability living allowance appeal tribunal

Our more detailed 37 page A4 guide 'Support for clients with DLA and AA appeals' was written for social workers, housing workers and other support workers but is equally valuable for claimants representing themselves at DLA tribunals. As well as all the issues above, it covers:Disability Living allowance appeal feedback: Just to say I represented at a tribunal in Plymouth yesterday and as always used info from your site to prepare the submission, not only did we get the award we wanted but the Chair congratulated me on the quality of my submission saying it was one of the best they had ever had!!

  • how to go and watch tribunals before attending yourself
  • written submissions
  • using commissioners decisions
  • inviting witnesses
  • the importance of what the claimant and their representative wear
  • how the claimant should travel to the tribunal
  • what happens at the tribunal
  • ensuring the tribunal cannot treat a support worker as an experienced representative
  • dealing with difficult tribunal members

Over 50 ways to challenge DLA and AA medical report forms are explained in The best possible ways to challenge a DLA or AA medical report. The 27 page manual includes dozens of fully referenced extracts from previously unpublished DWP training resources, obtained using the Freedom of Information Act, and dozens of sample paragraphs for written submissions.

Disability Living Allowance appeal guide cover: The Best Possible Support for Clients with DLA & AA appealsSample pages
Sample page from Support for clients with disability living allowance and attendance allowance appeals re Preparing your client.

Sample page from Support for clients with DLA and AA appeals' re Written submissions.

Sample pages from The best possible ways to challenge a DLA or AA medical report re higher and lower rate mobility.

 

Existing Benefits and Work members can download all our disability living allowance appeal resources.

 

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