Application for DLA retrospectively, possible???

Hi All,

Sorry is this has been covered elsewhere, I've looked but cannot see anything similar...

I have been diagnosed with a mental health condition since 1999; I got my self into university and have studied since about that time as it stopped my mental health problems being quite as bad as they could be when not doing anything.

My council kept sending me council tax exemption notices after they had checked my student status up until 2003, at which point they just kept sending me exemption notices without checking with me. In 2005 I became a part-time student which made me ineligible for the exemption, unbeknownst to me at the time.

In 2010 the council gave me a bill for nearly 7 years worth of council tax, luckily I managed to reduce the £8000 bill to £4000 through getting the student exemptions I was entitled to at the time the bill was supposed to be due. Unfortunately, I was living off my war pension so didn't need to get any benefits that would have got me council tax benefit at the time (not that I am eligible anyway).

I currently get a Severe mental impairment exemption on my council tax based on getting DLA but this only goes back to 2012.

My question to my learned forum members is: Can I get a DLA decision backdated to as far as my medical evidence will support? I have a Atos war pensions medical that outlines the conditions that I got my DLA for which would allow me to wipe out the debt (which I'm unable to meet financially).

Thanks for any help you can offer

PS they have a liability order due to the judge not being willing to hear my case on the basis it was too complicated.

BR, on the assumption that you will have to pay the debt, have you approached any of the services charities for help?

Yes, unfortunately the RBL got stuck in a bit of a loop with the council, ended up getting me paying more than I was at the time and then spent so much time in not replying (I assume due to workload) that I then couldn't appeal to the LGO as it was then out of the 12 month time limit.

Bob a Job wrote: Yes, unfortunately the RBL got stuck in a bit of a loop with the council, ended up getting me paying more than I was at the time and then spent so much time in not replying (I assume due to workload) that I then couldn't appeal to the LGO as it was then out of the 12 month time limit.

Oh dear!