Any one had success claiming benefits for RLS?

[Bettyboop45]

Good morning

I was wandering if anyone has had any success claiming any benefits for RLS . I work 24 hours a week and I am exhausted and wish I could just stop but financially I can't so I was wandering if there was any help out there 🤔.

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I had to stop work due to M.E. on meeting with the pension authority Dr she as much said if I had M.E. on its own I'd be unlikely to be successful however with the damaging nature of RLS my pension application was successful.

If you think that RLS can cause depression, anxiety, extreme fatigue, sudden onset of sleep, memory difficulties, inability to travel, etc, etc then it should be easy to get benefits as they assess your ability to function. You should be entitled to DLA/PIPS. Might be worth giving a call to citizens advice:

citizensadvice.org.uk

Good luck.

[Bettyboop45 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you for that.. I have all the above so I will enquire about it.

[FLAME43 in reply to Bettyboop45]

hope it goes well for you Bettyboop45, i could not even imagine having to work with this debilitating disease, praying a great outcome for you

[Elaniemarie in reply to Hidden]

I have never considered benefits for RLS, only my M.E. which was unsuccessful at the time. This is very encouraging indeed. I despaired of getting any help all these years.

[Hidden in reply to Elaniemarie]

My RLS and ME has been more debilitating than that of cancer. I have been physically worse than a person with terminal cancer!!

People are trying to get on with life and are lucky they aren't causing all sorts of problems.

Before talking to the benefits people you need to sit down and methodically go through ALL the symptoms and how they impact on your life. I was having a reasonable day the day I was assessed but unable to fully explain what was going on. Only for the list I had done with my wife I wouldn't have been able to get across all the damaging symptoms of RLS.

[TEAH35]

Yes although I believe the by-laws and codes would be different from country to country.

I come from down-under and I have been on a total and permanent full disability pension for restless leg syndrome since 2002.