dla atos stop my childs current claim?

hi

my daughter is type1 diabetic,she has to have her blood glucose levels tested between 6 and 10 times a day and be checked visually every 20 mins. she also has to have
her blood glucose level tested once during the night at 0130 and visually tested 3 times a night.if she doesn't have her blood tested and the visual checks she can
have danegerous hypo attacks which i have to treat with lucozade-sometimes with great difficulty she spits it out! if she is unconcious (she has severe convulsions)i have to treat her with the paramedic drug glucagon which i have to inject.she also has high blood glucose levels.these have to be corrected with extra insulin injections

my daughter will be 16 in april, she has dla for 3 years (and to run for another 3 years from now) but atos wants to review all dla cases of people of working age in april. nothing has changed since she was last given dla, does anyone think atos will stop her dla given that her condition has gone worse since dla last awarded?

beacause i have to test and check her so often (i spend much more than 35 hours a week looking after her that i could be entitled to carers allowance? i get more than
£100 per week (about £115 esa and £55 from a works pension) but is this classed as earnings or is it different if your on benefits? she is on middle rate care (i think) she gets about £209 per month

one last thing can i claim carers allowance now even though she's under 16?

TIA

kindest regards,

ken.

hi Gordon, thanks for the advice, i have a few questions:







>We will write to you to let you know when you can make a .claim to Personal Independence Payment and how to do that. This stage will begin in October 2013 and all
>current DLA claimants of working age will have been contacted about reassessment by Spring 2016

i get dla as well, will i receive it until oct 2013?



>>Everyone will be individually assessed against the new entitlement criteria (some people understand these as rules).

will this support group publish the new entitlement critrea under the freedom of information act? so that we can have the best possible chance of 1) getting PIP and 2)
recieving the same amount of money as we now get on dla?

tia

kindest regards,

ken

Everything we know, so far, is in the 'spotlight' thread at the top of the forum. I am sure that new information will be posted here when it becomes available.