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New to the Disability Money Matters board? Start here
This board is a discussion of all issues surrounding disability and how they relate to MoneySaving. Discussing benefits, discounts, cheaper ways to see consultants, cashback for alternative health treatments, how to get specific medication cheaper (legally) are all perfectly acceptable forms of discussion. Relevant links…
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£2000 a week for my mum's dementia care home!
I can't find a category for this. I hope this may reach the right audience. Please can someone update on what is going on with this scandal of dementia care-home costs? Mum is self funding as she has savings of over £23,500. Dad is still living in their home so I know that's safe. How on earth did we let this happen these…
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Online Attendance Allowance claim form.
I have thread on here about getting a downstairs WC for my FIL. In that thread I got some advice about charities that help ex services people and RNBF contacted my FIL and said he could claim AA and would send a form to him. It has been 11 days and no form but his Royal Mail post only deliver once a week it seems. I had a…
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Attendance Allowance levels
I have seen Martins latest information about claiming Attendance Allowance and wholeheartedly concur with the advice to make an application. However one word of caution if you are getting assistance to make the application ( which Age UK, Parkinson's UK and Social Prescribing teams all offer). Our local Social Prescribing…
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Accident on holiday 2025
Hi there I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction. I have MS and I went on holiday last year with my family. I hired an EV scooter for the whole time. I used a boat (taxi boat?)and unfortunately while coming off the boat my scooter clipped a huge part of the ramp tipping me and my scooter over. Tur…
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My experience of buying my first mobility scooter
Just for what it's worth ... Got to the point of needing a mobility scooter, and everybody said "Oh you must go to your local showroom, get expert advice and try some out. What works person for one doesn't work for another" yada yada yada. Which is fine except we don't have a car and the local stockist is nowhere near a…
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Adult son with UC and PIP living in family home - contribution to family "budget" yes or no?
My adult son (21yo) has recently finished specialist college and is now on a programme of daily activities funded by local social services. Now he is not in FT education he has successfully applied for UC with my wife acting as appointee. He is also in receipt of PIP with the same appointee relationship. When I was in his…
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Caring Tips/Help
Hello everyone. My mum is a carer for my brother. I'm not here to talk about his financials, more his lifestyle. He has Asperger's Syndrome to start with and 18 months ago was made redundant which hit hard hard and he has severe depression. He sees his GP every other month. He's just started a new round of counselling. He…
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incontinence is expensive. Can my deputy refuse my continence purchases?
I buy my own pads because the NHS ones are rubbish, they are Tena slip Maxi but they are cloth backed and they are rubbish so I buy my own, which I get the better ones but they are expensive, but they are worth in for pease of security. It seems I keep asking my deputy for money for continence purchases, its not just the…
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Carers council tax discount
Thread in the 'Cutting Tax' forum, might be of interest to some in this forum. One in five councils in Eng/Wal getting it wrong on Council Tax Carers Discount — MoneySavingExpert Forum
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With a brand new motability car, can friends/family find out it motability? (with online searches)?
If I get a new Motability car, is it possible for others to discover that it is a Motability vehicle through online searches or other methods? When someone is on higher rate PIP mobility and applies for their first Motability car, is the vehicle is classified as a disabled vehicle?. Can friends, family, or neighbors find…
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care support fees
For 18 months I have been trying to get my 90 year old mum into a care home but adult social care deem she can be supported at home. She has been safe guarded by the ambulance service twice following falls been in hospital over Christmas three years running, recently left all the hobs on at home with covers and been the…
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A question about motability cars
I've just been awarded higher rate mobility allowance and am going to use it to get a car. I've decided on an automatic fabia. My question is - do I have to shop around with different dealers in order to get the best price or is it the same price no matter where you get it from because it is government regulated? Thanks in…
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Private Healthcare question
I'm thinking about making an appointment to see a consultant with Spire Healthcare. I've seen this consultant before with NHS appointments but I've never used private healthcare before. I could wait months on the NHS and am prepared to pay to see them quicker. My question is, if I go and see this consultant at Spire and…
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Access card?
We have just applied for one as we need it to go to an event and they need to see it before we can access disabled areas. Does anyone else have one, what can it be used for? https://www.accesscard.online/
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PIP renewal - Time scales and what happens next
Hi, My husbands PIP renewal arrived, we completed it and returned it and DWP had confirmation they have the form. Completed using new medical evidence and advice from a couple of charities, so a detailed reply. His mobility needs have changed. So its not as simple as DWP leaving his award as is. We are anticipating some…
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Are social services being more strict with their care budgets?
I was going to a day centre that was run by the NHS for people with learning disabilities and I was going there for 15 years and had friends there and really liked the staff. I was going 4 days a week but they closed it down and left me nothing to do all day, I had somebody from social services come around my house and…
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Moved: PIP/Universal Credit Student Loans
This discussion has been moved.
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Newbie
Hello, hope this is the correct way to join in on forum. :)
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DFG - Do we have to agree with the assessors proposal?
My daughter has Muscular Dystrophy and we have applied for a DFG to allow us to convert the garage for a bedroom and bathroom. The proposal is to have a hydrotherapy bath as this will help her muscles but the DFG assessor has proposed a shower with shower chair. Ideally we would have a bath initially and if required in the…
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Parents joint bank and care home....
Hi, mum (74) and dad (75) dont own a house, they are tenants Both have just the state pension coming in (about £900 PCM) Dad looks set to be needing full time care following a stroke They have a joint bank account with £32,000 balance They have no savings or ISA's etc My question is, how do a council apportion the joint…
