Income support -sister being "sanctioned"

CIS

The HB rate can vary , its a while since I did any HB training but I think it was up to around 9 per week they could take but you would need to check it with the council to confirm.

munchings-n-crunchings

As suggested,
your sister really needs to sit down with an adviser and go through all her finances.

The CAB are good, but there is also Welfare Rights, who can be contacted through your county council. Both of these can act on your sister behalf, and take away some of the stress in tying to do it herself.
WR might be a good option, as this is really in their field.

Your sister needs to get all her paperwork together, and phone for an appointment first thing on Monday morning.

I have a sister under Peterborough council, and have had more success and advice from my own council, on how to get her problems resolved.

Good luck,
Munchie

delain

My brother and several people i know have dyspraxia at varying levels, and whilst they have trouble with handwriting, spelling and chopping onions, none of them have trouble budgeting.

Nothaving a snipe at you, just wondering if your sister is hiding behind her Dyspraxia. As others have said, see budget people or CAB X

munchings-n-crunchings

Dyspraxia or DCD Developmental Co-ordination Disorder as it's now often called, not only affects fine and large motor skills, but also associated with many problems of language, perception and thought.
How an person is affected can be inconsistant too, where one day they can do a task and the next day they can't.

To say that something is difficult due to Dyspraxia is neither hiding behing it, or using it as an excuse. But is a means of saying I am finding this really hard.

Munchie

looby75

delain wrote: »

My brother and several people i know have dyspraxia at varying levels, and whilst they have trouble with handwriting, spelling and chopping onions, none of them have trouble budgeting.

Nothaving a snipe at you, just wondering if your sister is hiding behind her Dyspraxia. As others have said, see budget people or CAB X

believe me she doesn't hide behind it at all quite the opposite in fact, she constantly refuses to accept she has problems. Which is not only very common in people who have dispraxia but also one of her major hurdles.

munchings-n-crunchings wrote: »

Dyspraxia or DCD Developmental Co-ordination Disorder as it's now often called, not only affects fine and large motor skills, but also associated with many problems of language, perception and thought.
How an person is affected can be inconsistant too, where one day they can do a task and the next day they can't.

To say that something is difficult due to Dyspraxia is neither hiding behing it, or using it as an excuse. But is a means of saying I am finding this really hard.

Munchie

Exactly!

As a young child sis had various scans, tests and even physio to try to diagnose and improve her "dizziness" (both mentally and physically ), but nothing made much if any difference. Our parents were told that sis had "clumsy child syndrome" and the best advice they were given was to by a puppy to help her learn to walk (she was still crawling more than walking at the age of 2) She's 28 now so this was many years ago.

She does find some aspects of general day to day living hard though, She is a great mum, my niece and nephew are cared for really well, they are well looked after, clean, fed and loved. Their home is safe and sound but she does need support from mum to help her organise things such as her finances and extra support from us all at times where she's expected to take in a lot of info at once.

She's not stupid, she doesn't need loads of help she just needs extra help sometimes....and sometimes half the problem is getting her to realise that, we often joke that sometimes it would be nice to go for a holiday in her world

notlongnow_2

looby75 wrote: »

She phoned up yesterday to see if she could make an appointment and they only have a drop in centre not an appointment system. Not ideal with a 9 week old baby in tow (unfortunately I'm too far away to help with baby sitting and our other sister has a 8 week old baby and a 2 yr old so not much help there either)

Id rather take an 9 week old baby than take my toddler..LOL! Young babies are a doddle..lol.

Seriously though, for your sister to have lived on such a small amount means she must have some budgeting skills and she is surviving. She has no credit cards/loans etc and is still managing. She seems to be doing better than I do.

I wish her the very best of luck.

looby75

notlongnow wrote: »

Id rather take an 9 week old baby than take my toddler..LOL! Young babies are a doddle..lol.

Seriously though, for your sister to have lived on such a small amount means she must have some budgeting skills and she is surviving. She has no credit cards/loans etc and is still managing. She seems to be doing better than I do.

I wish her the very best of luck.

lol yeah I get your point about a baby being easier than a toddler....actually now I think about it my nephew (who is 8) is much harder work than my niece lol

The main reason sis has managed to cope on less than £100 a week for so long is because our mum keeps hold of her debit card. If sis has it she tends to spend without thinking and doesn't keep account of what she's spent. This way she has to plan ahead and only withdraw the money she is going to use that day, it works well for her.

notlongnow_2

looby75 wrote: »

lol yeah I get your point about a baby being easier than a toddler....actually now I think about it my nephew (who is 8) is much harder work than my niece lol

The main reason sis has managed to cope on less than £100 a week for so long is because our mum keeps hold of her debit card. If sis has it she tends to spend without thinking and doesn't keep account of what she's spent. This way she has to plan ahead and only withdraw the money she is going to use that day, it works well for her.

That sounds like a good plan. Can this plan not stay in place and when your sis gets her IB sorted then she will have more money to play with and to pay off her arrears. By your post, she hasnt done anything wrong and so im sure it will get sorted eventually.

Good luck to her, it must be very worrying.

looby75

Sis had an appointment with the Lone Parent Advisor today, it took her all of 30 seconds to log into the computer and see that there was a note on my sisters "account" saying that she did indeed call up and cancel her WFI and the reason she gave was because she had a antenatal appointment.

Apparently what happens to my sister happens a lot because they have 2 different computer systems and the investigations team don't always look at both :wall:

Anyway in short it's all been sorted now, they were deducting far too much from sisters claim and it's getting backdated from March. Which is very handy as sisters microwave has just packed in and she needs it to sterilise her dd's bottles!

Thanks for the advice everyone.

Jowo_2

Perhaps this is in place already as she doesn't seem to suffer from HB arrears but those classed as vulnerable and can't manage their budgets can have their LHA paid directly to the landlord - it's not something the landlord can request but something for the recipient to request, fill in a form and provide supporting evidence.