Score one for the hobbit!

Three great things have happened today:

1. I won my IB appeal!
2. I got my DLA decision - indefinite award (higher care and lower mobility)!
3. I am going to see Green Day on 28th October in Birmingham!

Such a fantastic day and it's not even midday yet - I may revise my policy on mornings.

I'm so happy, though still slightly stunned as it's hard to believe I've finally got it sorted. I also don't have to worry about the Personal Capability Assessment for IB as I'm exempt on the grounds that I get higher care rate DLA, which I now have the indefinite award for so there will be no more fannying until I am transferred over to ESA, whenever that might be. I'm seriously doubting the DWP's claim that everyone on IB will have been reassessed by 2013, as that would mean if they start *today* they'd have to assess over 1200 people, every single day of the year, for the next three and a half years, going by the current figures of approximately 2 million people on IB, and they say they won't start reassessing people until 2010, which puts it up to 1825 people per day. Apparently 120,000 people work for the DWP, meaning every single employee would have to process 66 claims IB->ESA claims a day for three years straight (on a 35 hour working week, that's 9.5 claims per hour, or one claim every 6 minutes).

I really don't think they've thought this through.

Anyway, that's their problem - I'm on cloud 9 right now, because this means I and my partner (husband, in three weeks!) will actually have enough money to live on. We're hardly going to be rich, or even anywhere near 'average', but we won't have to agonise over where the next penny is coming from every single day and that takes such a massive weight off my shoulders. Now I can also get my partner his hormones, which is the most wonderful thing of all. Baruch HaShem, today is a good day.