Housing Benefit isn't enough!!

Soubrette

My surgery offers a non smoking clinic with patches etc on prescription.

Definitely look into the prepayment of prescriptions: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/Medicinespharmacyandindustry/Prescriptions/NHScosts/DH_4049383

Also it may help to consider your car as another luxury if you do decide to give up smoking and so any money saved can help you keep that one luxury, rather than smoking being your only treat and luxury.

Sou

JaneDoe_2

Hi,
Get yourself on a price comparison website with regards to the car, I have a little 106 as well and I clipped back on what I had included with the insurance, with breakdown it was going to be more expensive. I paid in total for a years insurance £130 and managed to get separate breakdown cover for about £30 pa. I work nights as a nurse and feel safer by car, its certainly no pleasure, i hate driving.

[Deleted User]

PasturesNew wrote: »

Have you thought of getting a scooter instead of a car? It'd be cheaper to run and easier to park and pee.

as opposed to park and ride?:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

krisskross

JaneDoe wrote: »

Hi,
Get yourself on a price comparison website with regards to the car, I have a little 106 as well and I clipped back on what I had included with the insurance, with breakdown it was going to be more expensive. I paid in total for a years insurance £130 and managed to get separate breakdown cover for about £30 pa. I work nights as a nurse and feel safer by car, its certainly no pleasure, i hate driving.

the OP is only 19, doubt she is going to get cheap insurance for a year or two yet.

myothercarisaferrari

*sigh*:rolleyes::rolleyes:

ladykhan

krisskross wrote: »

Crohns is treatable and between exacerbations many sufferers can almost forget they have it. One of my nurse colleagues had severe Crohns but still managed to work

You really do have to learn to live within your benefit means or get a job and provide for yourself. If you don't pay your rent you will be evicted and it is 6 years until you get all your rent paid.What career path do you plan to follow once the Crohns is stabilised? I am assumimg you do not intend to stay on benefits all your life.

How many hospital appointments do you have a month that means you have to have a car? Most unusual to be seen much more than 3 monthly once treatment has commenced.

then you will inderstand that everybodys crohns is different! just because someone has it doesn't mean their exactly the same.

i only got diagnosed in 2007 and i react to a lot of meds so its not a simple case of oh there u go come back in 3 months. i tryed one thing that had me at the hospital every 2 weeks and another every 4 weeks.

no i dont plan on being on benefits for the rest of my life. i ended getting very ill during my GCSE's and A levels so i was pretty crushed about that! i want to be a nursery school teacher and i will when i am better, no doubt about it! i am a strong minded person and will do it. when is a nother matter. i am currently in a flare up have been for the past 2 months and theres nothing the doctors can do until i see my consultant which will be at the beginning of october! so i have to wait, and i have to buy stupid food until then that costs a lot! but in the end i will do it! so yes i need my car as i dont no when im going to the docs etc.. i cant walk to my doctors as it is quite a walk for me with arthritis that isnt bein treated yet, and needing the loo every 10 mins because of my flare!

i no people got it worse of than me. my mum dont leave the house, not unless its important, and then i drive her to hosp/docs. i no its the recession etc.. and i no people cant afford anything, i no most 19yr olds dont have their own places, i no all of this! but i am a special exception because of my illness!! i didnt want to be ill, if i wasnt id in uni right now! like the rest of my friends, studyin to be a teacher and crying over debts not rent! it does work out £70.20 a month! i guess im just gonna shut up n put up and see what i can do. im going to get a form that may help a bit. the thing is i could manage £10 a week, and then £10 for concil tax a week as im going to get a ppc which i ment to put £15 a week for my perscriptions. so i think i will be able to do it. thank you for all the people who replyed and was helpful. you all helped a lot, and for the people who just wrote to dig at me, nice, i dont care, ive had it all before!! thank you everyone, you have seriously put my mind at ease! :D:D

ladykhan

:j also ive made an appointment to quit smoking! yay! so that should cut the budget a bit!

epsilondraconis

LadyKhan, that's great news about the appointment to stop smoking.

Hopefully giving up smoking will help reduce the symptons of your Crohns and will be the start of good things for you. Hopefully the next step will be to look at becoming a nursery school teacher that you are targetting.

Perhaps you could use some of your spare time to research on the internet what you need to do to become a nursery school teacher. This will give you an added incentive to make it happen.

Please don't think I am having a dig at you; however I've noticed that your posts aren't that easy to read because of the standard of your written English. I'm just thinking that this could be something that you could address whilst your Crohns condition is making it difficult for you do do anything else. There are a number of free websites that will help you improve your English - just do a search using Google. Again, please don't think I'm having a go at you. I'm just thinking that you could make some good use of your spare time and be proud that you are building for your future.

Good luck with everything.

riabie

Well done Ladykhan. I'm not a usual poster on these forums but an avid reader! I had to post though as I cannot get over some of the comments left here. You came here seeking help and was flamed by some for it. I feel that it is felt by a minority that as you are on benefits you are nothing but a scrounger. Even I get mad at the though that my taxes are going to pay for lazy bums and some of my relatives seem to have better life than I (working full time) sat at home claiming. However you are an exception and do have an illness. My ex was a severe crohns sufferer in the end it actually split us up. He had to eat a special diet and public transport was a total no go - literally it is like having the runs constantly. He avoided anything public and had zero social life ( we met through his sister). It is a horrible condition and I guess unless you have had experience of being with someone crohn's you won't know the rippling affect it has on your life and those around you. I presume this is your first time living on your own and it's damn hard budgeting for the first time as I'm sure everyone can agree on. Even now in my late 20's I find it hard. I wish you the best of luck. As a side note ... there are working from home opportunities, lots of scams too keep it to less than 16 hours a week and your benefits might not be affected.

Oldernotwiser

riabie wrote: »

As a side note ... there are working from home opportunities, lots of scams too keep it to less than 16 hours a week and your benefits might not be affected.

Scams! Good grief, not another one! Where do all these crooked people come from?