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UT DLA Award for 9 year old

ClairemHodgson
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http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/AAC/2017/391.pdf

global developmental delay, no language, no social skills, etc and PICA

of particular note to you all, however, is the last paragraph:

Concluding remarks
30.I have referred to the assistance given to E’s mother and appointee from the
mandatory reconsideration stage right up to the appeal before me. This was
provided by Christine Morgan, a Familes First Advocacy Officer at Diverse
Cymru, a registered charity in Cardiff. Not for the first time I wish to record my
thanks to a charitable organisation for its assistance in establishing
entitlement to welfare benefits under a complex statutory framework. Within
the general complexity of DLA entitlement the correct application of the
severe mental impairment criteria is particularly troublesome, as is shown
here by the experienced first-tier tribunal falling into a number of errors of law.
I have little doubt that without the support Ms Morgan provided the appeal to
the Upper Tribunal would not have been made. It is so often only because of
the experience of those who work within the charitable sector (and what little
remains of publicly funded welfare benefits advice) that in cases such as this
the correct legal outcome is reached

UT Judge Gray.