General Chat

My husband is bed ridden with various health issues only ever goes out when he has hospital /doctors appointments etc even has to have help with toilet needs,
He has been on high rate mobility +middle rate care for 12 yrs .
Now we have just heard that he has been refused all rates .
How the hell do they come up with these judgements?

Oh God. Who next?

I have just put the computer on while I am on the phone to DWP who are querying yet again my entitlement to Carers Allowance.

My son who has his does'nt live with us was getting cares allowance to help with my husband as i can,t lift him to the wheelchair to get to the bathroom etc .
Now we won,t even get help with this .
My son will now have to go on job seekers or find a job so who looks after hubby .

I'm sorry to hear that Cath but not at all surprised. My sister has recenty lost her mobility allowance and her car and subsequently her job.
Now she's out work her rent arrears are already building up and it is just a matter of time until she loses her home too. The tories are happy to see a 60 year old disabled woman homeless so who knows how low things will go.

We can appeal but this can take up to 3 months in the mean time its my hubby that will suffer physically and mentally .
With the money he used to get we paid for sons insurance /tax and petrol for my son to enable him to get here at short notice .
Its not as though we can say to hubby you will have to wait an hour to go to the toilet till son gets here on the. bus .
What are they thinking . It just makes me so mad .

Have you contacted them yet? It seems like your doctor might be a first port of call.

Calm down,have a cup of tea,then think out your strategy.Isn't that what carers do?

Sharron think it will take more than a cup of tea lol
to top it all i suffer with depression and have arthritis , can things get any worse .?

Some years ago elderly neighbour had a leg amputated due to diabetes and received some sort of allowance (expect it was carers). However, after she had her second leg amputated a Benefits doctor visited her home to assess her - her benefits were reduced as she needed less help with no legs!!!!!!! I told them to appeal. They did but they were in their late seventies, had no famil and did not need that hassle. Hope you get sorted out. Common sense seems to be lacking in those depts.

GeordieCath....l am sorry about this. The Conservatives really are going to town on the people who really need help are'nt they. l have 2 sisters that receive help for motorbility/disability, they too will be assessed. l'm just hoping they don't lose any benefits.
Some of these politicians need to live in the real world to find out what they are doing to people.
l do hope you can appeal and win!!

jude x

have just got off the phone with cab and got an appointment but its not until 2 weeks time .
What really gets me annoyed is all those people that genuinely need and deserve the help have to fight tooth and nail to get it and those that are just abusing the system get it without any problems..
He takes 30 tablets per day which includes 3 different types are pain relief one is morphine , isn't that telling them something or are they just thick as two sort planks

I put this on another thread.Before I became a carer I worked freelance.My partner did and does again now. If we had to go for a job we just went and bore the travel cost.As a carer there are no concessions like glasses or prescriptions but we bore that too.

He took a full-time job which came to an abrupt end and was able to claim Job Seekers while he built up freelance jobs again.tFree prescriptions,help toward glasses and money to go for job interviews. That was when we were living on what we would probably have coming in at a slack time when we were picking up work.

Sometimes I wonder exactly how they do decide where to send it.

Thick as 2 short planks and no feelings!!!!

Bonuses for some should be banned!!!!

My disability was granted for life and my OH is a war pensioner. Can they hope to change those? Apart from other problems, such as poor circulatio resulting in ulcers on leg, I have now been diagnosed with Asthma. I also have continence problems because of side effects of diabetes. How can I cope with a bus service running twice a week , giving three hours in town? Twenty miles from the hospital and two from the doctor.

You make sure you get every service that is available to you. It has been difficult but I am finally learning to grab instead of getting by.

Interesting.

My family has, fortunately, never needed to claim any of these allowances and wouldn't know where to start.

I appreciate many people are genuine receivers and I really sympathise because I know that, there, but for the grace of God, go I. But my family and friends have always been those who pay for this out of our hard-earned taxes and so I am glad that someone is, at last, making sure that everyone is a genuine claimant. I have felt fleeced for years.

Helen
My husband was in the armed forces for years and has worked after that ,he has paid his taxes etc ,.
Anyone with any sense can see that he has a genuine clam .
I hope for your sake you are never put into this situation ,you may then understand why it is so frustrating .

Helen in Kent........a lot of people claiming DLA have paid their dues for years even if they haven't they are entitled to DLA if they need it , yes some are not genuine but what people are saying is they are genuine but are getting their benefits stop which l personally think is unfair surely you also must think they are being penalized, what can they do to get what they are entitled to !!!!!!
I also hope you your family and friends are never put in this situation.
There for the grace of God go l.

A chap who used to live near me was a wrong 'un through and through. One Boxing Day he stole a motorbike and roared off on it, knocking down and killing an elderly lady. He smashed his leg up. He was put in prison for it for a few years (not many) and his licence taken away. When he came out of prison he started driving again even without a licence but no one dare report him because he was such a headcase he would have beaten that person up if he found out.
I saw him a couple of years ago, he has been on and off drugs for years, often slumped outside a tesco store in the city centre and has never worked. He told me he was in constant pain so unable to work because the bone had grown through his heel after his accident so has been on dla etc and had mobility allowance so a new car every so often, for most of his life. He must be about 40+ now.
It would be great to think his money will be stopped and he be forced to work at last.

Lizx

Helen,

I think you speak for very many hard working tax payers in this country.

Like you we have no problem with welfare benefits for the genuine and needy they deserve every penny but something has to be done about those who make a lifetime career working the system. Long overdue - unfortunately the previous government buried its head in the sand and of course it suited them to keep the numbers off the unemployment register.

IGP I agree with you but something must be done to make sure the right people are targetted and that the benefits are not stopped for those in real need and genuine and geordie Cath's OH obviously is. One wonders who is actually doing these assessments and what is their criteria.