Disabled Moneysaving

odd-one-out

pipkin71 wrote: »

If you contact your energy suppliers and register your disability, you can also go on a priority reconnection list, so if there is a power failure, you will be given priority over others in the area, to have your supply switched back on.

Once you've registered with the energy suppliers as disabled, they send out a letter confirming your priority. I'm not sure if this is for specific disabilities - I'm on the list, but don't have to use life-saving equipment that needs an electricity supply.

Pipkin xxxx

Excellent, I never knew this operated.

[Deleted User]

Someone on another thread suggested a board for expats.

3 posts later Martin has replied - in that case it is not possible.

Perhaps now he could reply on the possibility of a board for disability moneysaving?

My experience of caring for a disabled person is that disability can be a licence to print money for those who want to take advantage under various excuses of data protection, health and safety and a whole host of other reasons to simply charge more because someone is in a wheelchair.

Yes, as stated on my thread 2 months ago which elicited the grand total of TWO replies - there IS a lot of information - but it is so fragmented, and not just over MSE but everywhere else too.

Martin? Over to you.

tealady

What a great idea! Disability can happen to anyone (and family and friends) so I think it will have a broad appeal.

vivatifosi

Deleted_User,

I read your original post and it was very considered. It showed exactly the reasons why we can't just rely on the benefits board. Its because the issue is far bigger than benefits. When I had surgery for melanoma I didn't need benefit support, but that didn't mean I didn't need specific illness-related money saving help, and I think that's precisely the issue that you and the OP are hitting on.

Please, please everyone at MSE towers, I know given the last week or so you are probably all a bit frazzled at the moment, but please read this thread and Deleted_User's original and give the issue some serious thoughts. Thanks!!

brodev

Another example of the need for a thread like this is my own experience. I had an ileostomy operation 10 years ago. I require special (expensive) underwear. I only discovered 2 years ago that this was available on prescription. I now save approx. £150 per year because of this info that nobody thought of telling me about.

Edinburghlass_2

vivatifosi wrote: »

Please, please everyone at MSE towers, I know given the last week or so you are probably all a bit frazzled at the moment, but please read this thread and Deleted_User's original and give the issue some serious thoughts. Thanks!!

You've hit the nail right on the head about this past week or so but I'll report the thread to the team and I'm sure the team will give it some thought.

Savvy_Sue

I thought we once had the kind of thread the OP refers to, but I can't remember whether it was somewhere on Benefits or somewhere else entirely.

does anyone else remember it, or is it just me?

vivatifosi

Thanks Edinburghlass.

Without wishing to sound as though I'm sucking up, its not only MSE towers that seem frazzled. You, Savvy-Sue and Crabman as board mods are always on the boards when I'm posting. Don't you go to bed any more?

vivatifosi

Aha, and in the time it took to post my post, Savvy Sue posted as well. Which just goes to prove my point...

Savvy_Sue

vivatifosi wrote: »

Thanks Edinburghlass.

Without wishing to sound as though I'm sucking up, its not only MSE towers that seem frazzled. You, Savvy-Sue and Crabman as board mods are always on the boards when I'm posting. Don't you go to bed any more?

I'm just off now. Trying to show DH what it's like when someone crawls in beside you in the early hours ... but I also have to wait until the snoring reduces to a sensible level, so it's a finely judged moment! :rotfl: