Thank you all for your replies. I am so confused!! This extra disabled benefit is an addition to what I already get from dla, my concern is that if I had been awarded this extra part of dla when I applied for it, then there would be no back dated sum due, it is only to dla waiting and having a back ...

Hi, I am in an iva with my partner, I recieve disabled allowance. Before we started our iva in October, I had made a claim for a new disabled allowance, the claim has taken ages to go through and if I do get eligible for it, it will be back dated payments from when I first claimed in April. Now I am...