A new start for Mooloo

Savvy_sewing

travelgran wrote: »

As I understand the kinship fostering allowance regulations are particularly complicated. If the money is important I'd check them out very carefully before formally agreeing to anything. Only hearsay but someone I know apparently missed out because the family signed an agreement beforehand and couldn't claim afterwards. Very unfair.

I will bare this in mind. I am sure SS will try to act quickly on this so they can move on to other cases, so I plan to have another long talk with Biggest of mooloo, and tell her not to hurry into this.
I can cope with DGD for a little while longer, as long as she is happy enough. I think we need to make sure that the plans are all in place before she does anything rash. Including signing for anything.
Thanks for the reminder that they are sneaky!!
I remember in the converstion he said it would not be funded as it would be a family agreement. I think legal advise is needed first.

Savvy_sewing

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

Hi Mooloo
My Bil has gone bankups twice & his wife 3 times, so I would double check the information you have re your bankrupcy.
Hugs Hester

I hope that I can avoid this, as it was so stressful the last time. I also dont want to loose my accounts with the Co-op. I am hoping that I can come to some sort of better arrangement. I will also be having a bit of a meeting with the family, and I shall be asking them if they can help me with this debt as it was everyone living under one roof in the first place.

Then I think, if I dont have DGD living with me, I can get my head around Ebay and sell some of my things off. Declutter, and also sell some of the Remakes of clothes, and bags etc that I will hopefully have time to do.

My Mum wants me to make her a handbag for a wedding that she is going to in March, up in Yorkshire.
I am hoping that I can also have time to make a little stock of things and see if I can get a stall at the village fete in May? But it will depend on my arm of course. It has been really bad this last month or so.

Physio have sent a letter for me, to make an appointment. Hurray!
My higher doseage of medication is beginning to make a little bit of a difference.

Savvy_sewing

PS,
my BF was really helpful over the weekend, and I managed to get a lot of rest.
He took DGD into Oxford in her buggy, and let me sleep for about 3 hours yesterday afternoon.! I wish he was around all the time!!!

Time to put DGD to bed.

Errata

Mooloo wrote: »

I will bare this in mind. I am sure SS will try to act quickly on this so they can move on to other cases, so I plan to have another long talk with Biggest of mooloo, and tell her not to hurry into this.
I can cope with DGD for a little while longer, as long as she is happy enough. I think we need to make sure that the plans are all in place before she does anything rash. Including signing for anything.
Thanks for the reminder that they are sneaky!!
I remember in the converstion he said it would not be funded as it would be a family agreement. I think legal advise is needed first.

HTH - I think, and someone will correct me if I'm wrong, Kinship Fostering only happens when a relative or friend fosters a child who is in the care of the local authority. Clearly this will not be the case with DGD as she came to you from her mum's and will go from your home to Biggest's, and this is why the SW referred to it being a family agreement.
The rates for Kinship Fostering are much the same as for non-kinship, see here for the amounts.
http://www.baaf.org.uk/info/financial/uk.shtml#fosterallowance

Savvy_sewing

Errata,
We are asking them to consider paying kinshipcarers allowance to me, as they actually "uplifted" DGD and brought her to me. Therefore they took over the Care of DGD. But I cannot remember the actually wording. I will have to dig out the letter I sent. Not that I have had a reply from them yet.

Savvy_sewing

The version of office on my laptop has run out and I cannot do anything but read my documents now. So I will have to look out my keycode from the last laptop,and get my computer sorted out before I could print out the extract I had planned to print out. ! Ah well, anyway, we will see what happens. And its a reminder that I wrote to them on the 25th January, so its about time they replied to me!
Something else to chase up.!
I bet they were trying to hold off until DGD goes to Biggest of Mooloo and then not pay me!. Mmmmmmm :(

lolababy

Hi Mooloo my mum gets a weekly payment from ss of 78.00. They did say kinship care but my mum went for full residence. The payment is means tested.
Your daughter could foster but it would mean ss having a big say in your gd life.

Savvy_sewing

Funny I just read the first page of this thread again. What hopes I had! But still the same fears of finances.
In it I mentioned "the dream" of getting an automatic car. Well my dream was fulfilled, with a little help from my Dad.:T
My fears have been certainly on a roller coaster, and my Dad and Mum have been helping me such a lot lately.

Well my "Parrots" as we call them, have come up trumps again.
Dad has said that he will help me with the rent short fall, until I can sort things out. So I do not have to worry about loosing the cottage.!
I have not had to ask for any funds yet,but knowing now, that he will help me, if needs be is a CELEBRATION, in keeping my dreams alive.:beer:

So tonight I am off to bed, without the fear of loosing my cottage and I can look forward to rising to the various challenges that life is throwing at me, safe in the knowledge that for now I can keep my cottage and start to do something with the garden again this year.

Think positively and be proactive, and dont be afraid to let family know your problems, and that little bit of help may just find its way to you as it has to me!.:T
Good night.

Savvy_sewing

lolababy wrote: »

Hi Mooloo my mum gets a weekly payment from ss of 78.00. They did say kinship care but my mum went for full residence. The payment is means tested.
Your daughter could foster but it would mean ss having a big say in your gd life.

Perhap I will get a chat with you tomorrow, and see whats what. I have told m daughter not to sign anything about a family agreement until she has seen the citizens advice etc etc. She has made an appointment I believe.
She would be applying for a Residency Order I think they said,? Will check everything and double check it because I lost out by signing the safety agreemnt that was shoved under my nose and there was no legal representation around at the time.
Now I really need to go to bed.
Thanks ever so. x:T

ifonlyitwaseasier

mooloo - bigs hugs to your parrots!!!!!!!!! they are wonderful peeps!!!!!

rest up

ioiwe x