Carer’s/dla renewal

clee210

Hi I am wondering if anyone can help, i have put my daughters dla renewal in and it’s due to end on 24/07/21, I got a letter today from carers allowance to say if this payment does stop on that date so will my carers allowance and if the person I am caring for starts receiving dla pip etc again that I have to contact them as soon as possible, when I phoned dla last week my daughters claim was still waiting to be looked at, will I need to reapply for carers again after the renewal decision? Is this a standard procedure letter because it’s renewal time, any advice would be most helpful, thank you  

Ross_Alumni

Hello @clee210

Thanks for your post, I hope you and your daughter are well.

Firstly, I hope this situation doesn't arise for you and that you hear back about the DLA review soon, was it long ago that you sent it off? Have you been waiting a while for a decision?

I'm not sure of an answer to this so I hope that others will be able to advise. It likely is a standard procedure letter given that your initial DLA award is coming to an end later this month. Are you going to get back in touch to query this and put any concerns at ease? 

You might find the below pages helpful as part of your review:

• this Carers UK page on DLA
• this Carers UK page on Carers Allowance

clee210

Hi Ross thanks for your reply, yeah they got it on the 24th of April, it was sent back in plenty time, I phoned DLA last week and was told renewals aren’t getting looked at until two weeks before renewal date just now and my daughters was still waiting to be looked at, I think it is a standard letter as it mentions DLA/PIP and also attendance allowance and it says if the payments stop on that date but I was just wondering if anyone knew about the letter I have received, am going to phone on Monday to find out what’s happening.

fariar

Hello 
I received a similar letter 
my son is only 11 years old 
and I received a letter that his DLA will be stopped 28/09/2021 and my carers Allowance too after 10 years 
it says to contact them after I received my formal desision 
so confused 
does this means it’s ended? 

I did reapply 4 months ago 

poppy123456

fariar said:

Hello 
I received a similar letter 
my son is only 11 years old 
and I received a letter that his DLA will be stopped 28/09/2021 and my carers Allowance too after 10 years 
it says to contact them after I received my formal desision 
so confused 
does this means it’s ended? 

I did reapply 4 months ago 

It's not the 28/9 yet but if a decision's not been made by that time they may just extend it because i know backlogs are huge. You will need to ring them though just to ask them because only they can tell you for sure.

clee210

Hi Fariar, is it maybe just the standard letter when you do renewal to say your claim will be ending on a certain date? Have they actually gave you a decision on your renewal?