Letter to Centrelink for DSP - advice needed!

[~clover~]

Yeah, my back payment was a pretty decent amount. It was later in the year & my application was put in before the end of financial year, so I also got the sup payments.

I actually had someone ring me to let me know I'd been approved, rather than just send a letter.

[HotI]

my mum is going through appeals currently. crazy thing is da got approved for carer s allowance, but mum got knocked back for dsp. the process has notbeen easy for them.

if you can get psych to write letter, do it AND take up offer of assistance. sometimes it is how things are presented that makes all the difference.

[dinky]

You need to get your psych to write a letter stating your condition and what it will and wont allow you to do. You also need your GP to write a letter as well, so that he can state the extent of your condition. The DSP form must be filled in precisely or it will be rejected. Centrelink will then usually get you to see one of their assessors before they will sign off on it. I only know this because I have a friend who applied for DSP, she got her GP and her surgeon to write letters and filled out the form exactly then they were okay with it.
I think another problem is that you state that you are able to work, which means that you shouldn't really need a payment, they will cut your payments for any sort of income that you get anyway. That's just what they do!
Good luck!