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TK MAXX - Poor Service!
TK Maxx online no longer collect items to be returned by disabled people. I am unable to get to a post office or have someone return my parcel to the store. I rang customer services and I was quite rudely told that it was no longer their policy to collect items. The lady I spoke to told me 'It wasn't her fault that I was…
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carers allowance
Is it true that when i am 65 my pensionable age, i lose my carers allowance that i get for caring for my wife???? I struggle to see why it should finish ???? thanks
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PIP reconsideration
Hi I had my assessment back in July and asked for a copy of it well it finally arrived yesterday it's like I'm reading about someone else he's put incorrect things down example he asked if I'd be ok to go on an unfamiliar route in a taxi I said no not with out someone with as my anxiety would be through the roof he's put…
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am i allowed sdp bit confused
Ive been Told by some people that I can some people I cant so i'm very confused to what is allowed and all this stuff confuses me so I don't know if I am or not I live by myself i'm on JSA and get Enhaunsed pip care
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Disability premiums?
Im moving into my own house next month and was wondering if I would get any disability premiums? I couldn't get any before as I was staying with my mum but now I will be living alone. If I can get them do I just phone the job centre or will they know when I move?
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Disability benefit help
Hello my situation is as such, I'm a lone parent disabled currently get PIP enhanced care & standard mobility until 2020, ESA I'm in the WRAG but currently going through the process to go into the support group, also get child tax creds, HB, CB..enhanced disability premium.. My daughter is currently sectioned and has just…
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ESA Assessment
Hi everyone, I had an ESA assessment about 2 weeks ago which I've been worrying about a lot after reading so many horror stories about them rejecting it and making you have to appeal while you have no money for months. I've not yet received a decision letter, but when my money was paid into my account a couple hours ago, I…
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Hospital and benefits
Hi I am just posting as I am in a bit of a state over my husband's benefits. He has suffered a severe stroke and two weeks after a pulmonary embolism in hospital resulting in significant clots in both lungs. He has been in hospital for six weeks and I rang DLA and they are stopping his care and mobility payments (been…
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London taxicard?
Does anyone here have a taxicard for the disabled? If they do do they find that it's worth it, do you get good prices for cabs? Because of various disabilities, I only travel by cabs anyway and have only seen about this card, which would help me out if there are savings, there are places I don't go at all because the cab…
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ESA income based and permitted work
if you are on ESA income based and you don't recieve any payments because your partner earns over the amount stated , but you get National insurance credits paid can you do permitted work and get the payment of £115 if you work less than 16hrs. Thankyou
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Private prescription
Hi, I am considering seeing a Psychiatrist in England in the private sector as a Scottish resident. Trying to establish the cost of having any prescription dispensed in Scotland. Anybody able to help as I am baffled ? Also could the Psychiatrist write to my GP in Scotland tell him to issue as script for required drugs?…
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Question re:severe disability premium & carers
I currently receive severe disability premium in my income support due to my disability and being a single parent. My partner will be moving in shortly and will be looking after our son as im struggling to manage. Our son has learning delay and quite behind (not yet walking at 2 1/2) amongst other things and I am awaiting…
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PIP review question
Hi, I recently had my PIP review assessment. Got a text message on Wednesday saying "they have all the info they need to make a decision" When i rang them today i was told a decision has been made and a letter sent out. However they couldn't tell me what the decision is because they said it hasn't been scanned onto the…
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ESA amount - child left school
Hi, my daughter turned 18 and left school at the end of last term. Her child benefit and tax credits stopped second week of September but I'm still receiving the same amount of ESA, £360 a fortnight (esa and disability premiums). She is now full time at the local college. My question is, should my ESA amount have changed?…
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ESA WRAG -£30 cut a week, actually going ahead ?
The planned proposal for cutting the ESA Work related group by £30 a week, which was in the pipleline, is this actually going ahead? or it has been opposed and the decision stopped? . so the £30 a week cut is not happening? and where is the 'latest' source to confirm this? (latest dated url link)?
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esa extra money
ive been awarded the standard rate with daily living needs and standard rates of mobility needs. will i get extra money on my esa from universal credit thanks tim
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ESA WRAG Group -Going abroad for 3-4 months/missing WRAG Interviews? and questions
Some questions For the ESA WRAG Group (not support group) 1) ESA SUPPORT VS WRAG? What things are different for this WRAG group, VS the support group, besides this: Support group have NOT got to attend anything, no WRAG. What other things, do the WRAG group have to do, that the support group doesn't? 2) What do the WRAG…
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Need quick help in wording of this letter about appointment I have
Cut out the part that mentions the town "I would invite you to call "council office" on Tuesday 1st November 2016 between 11am and 12pm for a Housing Options Interview. Does that mean I have an appointment between 11-12 or that I can drop in anytime between 11 and 12?
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PIP Appeal
Can I ask a couple of questions about going to appeal . 1....Do you have to go to another face to face assessment (same place as the original assessment). 2....How long does it take to be sorted out 3....Do you still get paid while it is being sorted. My OH has just changed from DLA to PIP. He had top rates on both…
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Post Office/Direct Debit
Hello I'm needing to set up a Direct Debit account to pay my utility bills each month. As my disability payments are payed into the Post Office. Can anyone tell me if a Direct Debit account can be setup with the Post Office to pay my utility bills? If so how do i go about doing this? Thank you.
