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Community Care and charges
I have recently been assessed as having community care needs, and had a financial assessment recently. I have just heard that I will need to pay £46.12 a week towards any care needs, which is based on my income only. They only take half my husband's and my expenses into account, even though my income is considerably more…
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Surgery - no next of kin?
Hi all, I think this is the right board for this but I'm not sure. I'm having surgery in a month or so and I don't have anyone I can trust to put down as next of kin. (This is based on the behaviour of my family when I was in hospital as an emergency a couple of weeks ago). I just wondered if it's possible to go into…
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advance payment for motability cars
Hi does anybody know if you can get help with paying the advance payment they are so expensive. The scheme is really good and save alot of money in the long run, but its just coming up with nearly £2000 for the type of car we need.
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Disabled Facilities Grant
Hi all, Wondered if anyone has had any experience with the DFG please and how it works. We are currently having our ground floor study converted to a bedroom and installing a new ensuite wetroom in the room that is currently our kitchen for my daughter as we need ground level living for her. Due to the fact that we are…
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Nursing Home funding. Financial maze.
I have been on several web sites - Age UK etc. In brief, my husband has 'Continuing Health Care'. It has now come to crisis stage whereby if he doesn't go in to long term care, then I will crack up completely. I want to know about the financial aspect. I read on one site, that we can each have savings up to £30,000, and…
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ESA - New Claim
Hi, everyone. I'm new here and this is my first post. I have started a new claim on ESA because of an illness, won't go into details, but basically they sent me out this form that I had to write in detail what my illness was, it was like a survey. I knew that I had to send my sick-note from by GP to the ESA department, so…
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ESA Tribunal help
(please excuse my username, seems I signed up a long time ago eek) Hi everyone, Basically I’m in a bit of a mess, and looking for a bit of advice (maybe someone’s been through a similar thing, or knows more about the system than I do.. Which wouldn’t be hard :eek:.) I’m a 31 year old guy, and originally I was claiming…
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Income support and SMI
Hi, I have a question I'm asking on behalf of a friend, whose asked me but I don't know the answer. This person is on DLA and their partner gets carers allowance for looking after them. Their other income comes from an occupational pension, they have no means tested benefits.. They have recently used entitled2 calculator…
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Will current DLA be stopped if PIP application made?
Hi, I currently receive DLA on an indefinite award, but have been advised due to a change in mobility needs, I would probably be better off claiming PIP. (It seems unlikely I would be worse off, considering the descriptors). I know PIP claims are taking an extremely long time to receive decisions, but would I continue to…
