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Care Home Fees Local Authority Contribution
My mother is suffering from dementia and the time is approaching when she will need to go into a care home for her own safety. I am beginning to look around at costs and facilities and believe she will qualify for the maximum local authority contribution. What I am finding some problem establishing is whether the quoted…
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pip criteria
was sent this info today might help some people http//!!!!!!/PIP2nddraftasmcriteria
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Attendance Allowance and Mobility
Hi, sorry to ask what may be a silly question but is there any way you can get a mobility car with Attendance Allowance? I am a carer for my elderly parents, one receives high rate attendance allowance and one low rate, and also a carer for my daughter who gets high rate care DLA and low rate mobility DLA. Our car isnt big…
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can you get mobility car for dla high care rate for partner & daughter?
Hi, My partner recieves dla high rate care and low mobility due to a car accident a number of years ago leaving him with various mental health issues. Also My 3 year old daughter is in reciept of dla middle rate care due to illness since a baby. They do not have physical disabilities as such but due to there problems it is…
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Dla good news!!!
HI, all... My DLA was up for renewal 13th October this year, and in September they awarded me mid rate care, low rate mobility, when I had been getting mid rate care, high rate mobility. So, i asked for a reconsideration...NO JOY. So I took it to appeal, and in the meantime I had to have an independent assesment with an…
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Care for the ellederly and cost...
Our quandary is as follows… We have taken my wifes mother in to live with us (we have power of attorney) and have rented here house out. We currently receive £ 420 for this after estate agency fees. We receive about £230 attendance allowance and she receives a very small pension. Since we have taken her in, I have had to…
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How Do You Cope With Thinking You'll Never Work Again?
Hi All Just heard that I didn't get a job I was really hoping to get & feeling rubbish about it :( . I'd applied under the "2 ticks" scheme after advice from my former rehab officer as she thought I'd stand a good chance. It was with a large charity that deals with the disabled finding employment (& other things). They…
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Sheltered Housing funding being cut by govenment
just been to a meeting with my ha (im in sheltered housing) and it appears from next april the govenment are slashing the money they pay to ha's for sheltered housing. this is wrong in every sense :eek:, does anyone know if theres an online petition against this
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My Autism & ME tv program
Great little newsround program about Autism http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/cbbc/episode/b01773m7/Newsround_My_Autism_and_Me/
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Benefits Maze - so lost; dont know where to turn or what to do!
I am so at my wits end, I have no idea where to turn to or what to do, I cant see the wood for the trees and feel so hopelessly lost. I know self pity wont help me but i am just sitting here crying wondering how to get out of it all. I work for the council in a school, the headteacher and the PA bullied me (to cut a long…
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Can a husband and wife both receive DLA?
Hi all Sorry if this is a silly question, I have googled but I am just more confused! I currently receive high rate care and low rate mobility, have been getting this for almost 3 years. We are on benefits, my husband being on incapacity benefit, he receives an underlying entitlement to carers allowance for being my carer.…
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Sheltered Housing
In your opinion what would a persons needs be to be accepted into sheltered housing. My brother is 58 and needs to be in an environment where there is someone there if he needs help. Was hoping you guys could help which would support his claim.
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O/T - Thought for this quiet - today
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson – not to mention David William Donald Cameron and his now chancellor George Gideon Oliver Osborne see what I mean - :D
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Appointing someone to talk for me
Hi I want my husband, who is my carer, to be legally allowed to talk for me, fill out forms signing for me and be my voice, I think sort of like a power of attorney? But I also need to be able to do the above myself, should I wish. Does that exist? Many thanks. Jo
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No need to pay care home costs
A great deal of people feel intimidated by the NHS, PCT and Social Services, or just feel embarrassed about talking about the issue of money in relation to Care Home costs. However, you MUST look at these sites if you are/or know of/ someone who is currently paying for, or has been told they will have to pay for Care Home…
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Direct payments, personal budgets.
Can anyone enlighten me please as to what is the difference between a direct payment and a personal budget please? Are they the same thing? If they are different, do they have different criteria? Thanks in advance
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Home care rates for London - any ideas?
Can anyone help? I'm thinking about arranging some homecare for a relative in North London. I can't get ANY agencies to tell me their rates without doing an assessment - and many of them charge for this (BNA charge £140!!). Before we start, I just wanted to establish whether this was something we could afford (as the…
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Fibromyalgia/CFS/ME & benefits
hi i have been in pain for over 18months eventually i have seen a specialist who was fab...i now have confirmation i aint going mad!:mad: he has dignosed me with Fibro however i have restless less fatigue and slepp deprivation so not sure if i have fibro & ME/CFS with assomina? can anyone make head or tail of what i…
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Wheelchair ramp loan/hire
I've recently started a relationship with a man in a wheelchair, I would love for him to be able to come to my place instead of keep going to his, is there anywhere or charity that would be able to loan me a ramp to get in and out of the house? The step up to my front door is really steep, but apart from that, he'd be ok…
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ESa - work focussed health assessment?
I applied over the phone for ESA yesterday and the lady on the line told me I would possibly be called for a medical - well I thought everybody pretty much was so she got that wrong? Also she said that I would have to complete a work focussed health assessment - not come across this term before on here or googling for info…
