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incapacity payment today
received a payment from ib today fro 60 pounds not a clue why anyone else get anything iget paid every fornight usually 204.00 so this is unusual thanks
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Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) Appeal Advice Required
Hi All, I'm not sure if this was best put in this forum, or in the Armed Forces forum.. although, I'm sure it'll get shifted if needs be! *** I'm after a bit of advice really following the decision given regarding my AFCS claim. The story... I suffered a back injury 3 years ago, and was given a 'light-duties' based job and…
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Wheelchair Insurance
Hi, I've just got my first wheelchair through partnership/voucher option with my local wheelchair service. Does anyone know who's responsible for insuring the chair with this option. I'm waiting to hear back from the wheelchair service about this, but they are rather slow at responding to anything and I'm concerned if…
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CAB - Means tested?
I hope I'm in the right place and not starting an old worn out topic. My daughter has Arthritus (having tests done right now to sort out what sort and what else) IB and FMS and hasn't worked for almost 2 yrs. During that time she has lived on her savings and her partners salary while she waited to 'get better' and 'back to…
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Discriminated by DLA Medical services
Hi all, Due to severe back problems that I have been told may need surgery I placed a claim for DLA. After what seemed like a long time I got a call asking me to attend a medical in Preston, when I attended in the wheelchair as I could not walk due to pain the Gents at reception said would have to get someone from Medical…
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Hoilday advice??
Hello I am not sure where to post this, We have been offered a cottage in cornwall at the end of april and the first week of may its for the disabled, But we need to find around £500 to pay for it, Last hoilday we had was in 1997 but my mums health has changed alot and a hoilday would do us a world of good. I am on c/a…
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Here for a nag....
I'm in here for a nag only coz I don't know where else to post and unlike my normal happy go lucky self today I am having a right old self sympathy fest :o I am fed up with being in f***ing pain and no matter how high I put my heating on 24/7 my joints still are in agony from the cold and I don't know what to do other than…
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Incapacity Benefit and Part Time Work
:confused: My first ever post. HOPE SOMEONE CAN HELP. I receive Incapacity Benefit and DLA and have done for over 2 years. If I get employment is my IB reduced in accordance to my earnings? Also is my DLA taken into account? I'm applying for a "work at home" job making calls to customers and my hours can be 2 - 12 per week…
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dla do i have an atos medical
hi, i applied for dla and wondered will they just get in touch with my doctor or will i have to have an atos medical doctor come to visit,also how long from the date they recieve the application form back untill i hear is the result.thanks
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D.L.A. Payment dates are changeing ?
Hi all just a heads up had a letter informing me the from march 2009 my DLA PAYMENTS will change and it may effect others too i currently get paid DLA in with my incapacity benefit weekly and all ways have done from the job centre plus from March 2009 this will stop and i will get paid from the pension,disability and…
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Carers Allowance scrapped
My sons DLA has been lowered to lower from middle rate. Although a shock of losing half the amount due to him, it was more or less managable. Then I got a letter yesterday announcing that CA is linked to DLA and that I would no longer qualify for CA with him on lower rate. This is inspite of the fact that I still care for…
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CWP, make your concerns to James Purnell
Regarding CWP, contact James Purnell with your views on cwp and complain as i am sick at how the public who are entitled to it are given the cold shoulder or no info whatsoever, he is the Works and Pensions Secretary and his address is www.jamespurnell.org.uk and it says you should contact dwp but dont go on that site,…
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Get CWP confirmed at channel4
Goto www.channel4.com under business and work, you will see cwp, just follow instructions, easy
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Some advice needed 'what am I'
I have an immune disease, this link explains what i have http://www.uveitis.net/ptinfoposterior.htm It means a lot of time on steroids to suppress my immune system to control an attack, which can leave me with a lot neck and back pain, steroids makes my bones click really bad, i lost my vision last year in my left eye but…
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Pathways to Work - Waste of time.
I have recently been retired from work on ill health pension, which fortunately for me is of sufficient amount that I cannot receive Incapacity Benefit. However, to continue to receive National Insurance contributions for my State Pension, I have just undergone an ATOS medical, despite having undergone a medical with the…
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DLA Help
Hi Guys & Gal's First post on here and i'm in need of some help please. I was on income support and also getting DLA but i contacted my local benefit office to tell them i was now living with my partner and they then stopped my income support.I was told my DLA would remain which i am happy about but even tho our money was…
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Confusion over cold weather payments
Hi can someone please clear up this little dispute I'm having with OH he says that I should get a cold weather payment because I'm disabled get DLA, IB AND IS but I said that only pensioners get it anyone help, I'm not a pensioner.
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DLA Abroad
I have spent a frustrating day on the telephone (all local rate calls of course!!) trying to get a definitive answer as to whether or not my husband & I can claim our DLA in europe. We have family in Bulgaria and would love to join them but, until now, that has always been a pipe dream. With the new ruliings coming into…
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multi sensory impairment service
hi i have just had a phone call from the multi sensory impairment service , they wish to come out and see me about my son who is deaf and partially sighted , i have only ever dealt with the hearing impaired service as his sight problems have only just been diagnosed . has anyone dealt with this service before as i really…
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Lost DLA cheque
Can you get replacement cheques? Unfortunately the cheque of just under £300 has dropped beneath the mantle piece and the coal fire (unused) There is a very slight gap between the wall and the pine surround I cant see it at all and tried to put paper down with glue and a long pin but only way really is to dismantle it from…
