How To Fill Out The Disability Living Allowance Form

Hello. My name is Lee Healey and I'm the Managing Director of Income Max, the entitlement expert. We help people to make sense of and understand the benefits in tax credit system.

Today, we're going to tell you lots about the benefits in tax credits that are available. We often get asked how to fill out a Disability Living Allowance Form. Now I've got one here and as you can see, they're incredibly long and incredibly complex.

So it's always a good idea to allow yourself plenty of time to complete the form when you actually do it and that's obviously, you know, whether it's online or whether you're actually doing it from a paper form, you've done likely to have sent through you. So what's the kind of top tips for filling out the Disability Living Allowance Form? Well, I think first of all, the key is to familiarize yourself with the kind of questions that you're going to be asked on the Form. So rather than just kind of filling it out first time page by page, actually have a good look through the form to get an idea at the types of questions that they're asking.

You'll see that the start of the form, very much focuses on you and your personal circumstances so it obviously looks at your personal details, it looks at who your GP is and quite importantly, it looks at what your disabilities and health problems are. So it really helps to kind of have an idea of that. It also has a look at your medication as well.

So it's good to have to hand in some kind of prescription or if you know what tablets you're on, have a look at the labels or whatever. So that's something that's really important to familiarize yourself with the form itself. Then obviously, you move on to actually having to answer the questions and as you can see, it's a long form with quite a lot of information on it.

Read the questions really really carefully. If you're not sure what to put, by that I'm saying basically you know how your disabilities or health problems affect you, it's probably good, just over you know perhaps a week before you fill out the form, to actually make some notes or keep some kind of diary on the particular health issues you actually got and how it's affecting you. So for example, you might want to do some kind of walking test which will kind of test your ability to walk and when you feel pain and discomfort and so on and so forth.

Don't forget Disability Living Allowance is broken down into care and mobility, so it's looking at your care needs and your mobility needs. So basically, fill out the form as best as you can. If you're not sure whether you're filling out the form correctly or what to put, do seek some advice from an expert.

Benefits experts which you might find in the local citizen's advice bureau or an independent advice service, will hopefully be able to make you an appointment and fill the form out with you. And then obviously, that will hopefully give you as good a chance as any of putting your disabilities and health problems and the problems that you have with your care and mobility down onto the form accurately. Once you've filled out the form, it's always a good idea to keep the copy as well just to know what you've written and obviously what information is going to the government.

Pop the envelope, pop the form in an envelope back to the Government Department and then obviously you'll need to wait a few weeks before you hear that decision. So that's a quick guide to filling out the Disability Living Allowance Form. .