Feeling very angry

Caribeing | 20:45 Fri 14th Mar 2008 | ChatterBank

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Today I sat in on a DLA tribunal appeal with a
family member [genuine claimant]and it was
turned down I was really angry as the claimant
in my view was deserving. what do you have
to do!! What annoys me is the self inflicted
obese smoking drinking people who don't seem to have any bother in claiming DLA
sorry for the rant but I am angry!!

So who on here is goiung to crack first.

Here is one for the ladies on here.

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aka pixi

Sorry to hear that Mary and you do right to rant about it.

I know exactly what you mean. My mum was really ill and we tried claiming DLA for her a few times only to be turned down. To get across how ill she actually was the doctors gave her 5 years to live and she actually lived 16 years from when he said it . During those years she just got poorlier and poorlier. Yet theres a bucketload of people I know who are on full sickness benefit and full DLA because of 'bad backs' (doesnt stop them playing football) alcoholism and methodone addiction.

aka pixi

I meant heroin/methodone addiction

Caribeing

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akapixi sympathise with you!

daffy654

I am one of the people that got DLA because of smoking..........sort of.I have a genetic form of emphysema (Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency),3 other members of my family have it also and my dad died of it aged 42 back in 1976.We have only just discovered in the last 18 months that it is genetic as all of us who have it smoked until diagnosis and just assumed that was why we were ill,I am the only one who has since stopped. We would have been ill if we had never smoked though.
I'm sorry your family member got the claim turned down but that doesn't make me or anyone else with a disability less deserving.I appreciate you are upset by the tribunal's decision,is there no other avenue of appeal? Can your local MP not get involved or maybe your family member's consultant.What is it that your relative suffers from?maybe there is a support group for that condition and they would have some sort of help to claim. I wish you luck in any future claim that you may make to the DLA.xxx

(BTW I had to appeal to get my DLA)

southern6

Daffy i have just been diagnosed with ALPHA 1 DEFICENCY is this auto for DLA my 16 yr old daughter has it to

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