Higher Mobility, but still lower Care, any ideas?

After winning my Tribunal in February 2013 for ESA WRAG, DLA Care & Mobility both Lower I applied to the DLA for a change of circumstances.
This was sent with supporting medical evidence from my GP and Consultant.
I am virtually housebound and my partner does virtually everything foe me now as well as looking after our 2 daughters for which I cannot do due to my ill health.
One of our daughters has recently started with Epilepsy, and our older daughter has Asthma, so as you can guess things are quite erratic at times.
We wanted to get the middle rate care component so that my partner could claim carers, but instead they awarded me the Higher rate mobility, while this was a surprise and welcomed raise we are still at a loss as to why they never raised my Care Component, I want to ask them to look at it again, but I am worried that it could all be stopped.
I have CFS/ME, Depersonalisation, Social Phobias and loads of other terrible ailments, this all started back in 1994, and no one knows why, but I found the trigger last year, a Tick infected with Lyme Disease, I was a Continental lorry driver for 20 years, but had my licence revoked by my Neurologist in Feb 2011 because of dizziness, balance problems and Migraines with Aura.
My life is over as far as I can see from now, I am in terrible pain 24/7 but will never give in, I am not a quitter, but I must say the way this is going with the DWP I am amazed I have kept going, although my partner is the one doing all the leg work, we are treated like animals at times.
We have been advised to see if we can get DLA for our youngest daughter, I am not sure yet.

Any advice or pointers would be great, I appreciate that so many have tried to claim and failed, I would only advise that using the CAB was the best thing I ever did.
Many thanks

You could ask them just to look at the care component again but they are entitled to look at the whole claim. As you were surprised by the raise in the mobility this would suggest to me that you do not have clear entitlememnt. Appealing or asking them to reconsider would leave your mobility and care component vulnerable to being reduced. I'm not saying this is likely but I have had it happen to some of my clients so I know it is possible. So I would go back to CAB before deciding. You could always put in an appeal now so your within the one month limit and then seek advice as to whether to proceed or withdraw from the appeals process.

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Mark Herridge wrote: After winning my Tribunal in February 2013 for ESA WRAG, DLA Care & Mobility both Lower I applied to the DLA for a change of circumstances.
This was sent with supporting medical evidence from my GP and Consultant.
I am virtually housebound and my partner does virtually everything foe me now as well as looking after our 2 daughters for which I cannot do due to my ill health.
One of our daughters has recently started with Epilepsy, and our older daughter has Asthma, so as you can guess things are quite erratic at times.
We wanted to get the middle rate care component so that my partner could claim carers, but instead they awarded me the Higher rate mobility, while this was a surprise and welcomed raise we are still at a loss as to why they never raised my Care Component, I want to ask them to look at it again, but I am worried that it could all be stopped.
I have CFS/ME, Depersonalisation, Social Phobias and loads of other terrible ailments, this all started back in 1994, and no one knows why, but I found the trigger last year, a Tick infected with Lyme Disease, I was a Continental lorry driver for 20 years, but had my licence revoked by my Neurologist in Feb 2011 because of dizziness, balance problems and Migraines with Aura.
My life is over as far as I can see from now, I am in terrible pain 24/7 but will never give in, I am not a quitter, but I must say the way this is going with the DWP I am amazed I have kept going, although my partner is the one doing all the leg work, we are treated like animals at times.
We have been advised to see if we can get DLA for our youngest daughter, I am not sure yet.

Any advice or pointers would be great, I appreciate that so many have tried to claim and failed, I would only advise that using the CAB was the best thing I ever did.
Many thanks

As others have said you could ask for the DWP to only consider the care component. However, as DLA is a single benefit with a care & mobility component, they are entitled to look at both components, so it's possible that your mobility component could be lowered.

I'm afraid I cannot comment on your youngest daughter as you haven't stated what mobility and/or care needs she may have.

My advice would be to seek 'face to face' advice from a benefits adviser in your area. The easiest way to do this is to Google benefits advice and add your postal code.