Cheaper GAS if Disabled person in the House?

minimadtrix

krisskross wrote: »

We are only talking about £250 A YEAR! It has already been explained that DLA plus disablement premiums are to help with the extra expenses of disablement INCLUDING heating. I would imagine that if your spritely little pensioner only has her pension then she will be financially worse off. Just because she has made provision for her retirement shouldn't mean she is penalised. I do wish the Government would simply give all pensioners a £5 a week increase and cancel the Winter fuel payment. It would save a lot of envy. And i wish you would stop assuming all pensioners should be hunched over little creatures. 65 is not old!!!!! My neighbour is 94, does all her own shopping, cooking , cleaning.

In fact why don't we do away with pensioners altogether then all you moaners could have more.

You are very rude aren't you? I hope that one day you are crippled in pain and in need of Government funding to help support your needs. Then maybe you'll think twice before judging others.

No doubt you are an agrieved BANKER!

minimadtrix

krisskross wrote: »

BTW where does your disabled chap get the money to pay his mortgage? Does he work?

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That's one of the things he uses his Incapacity Benefit for

krisskross

minimadtrix wrote: »

You are very rude aren't you? I hope that one day you are crippled in pain and in need of Government funding to help support your needs. Then maybe you'll think twice before judging others.

No doubt you are an agrieved BANKER!

I'm not rude. In fact I am here with a husband in screaming pain who can't even manage to wash or dress himself or give his own insulin injections because of a severe flare-up of rheumatoid arthritis.

He is allowed no painkillers except paracetemol because they cause him to bleed from his gut and he is on blood thinner secondary to heart disease so a bleed could be catastrophic. This will be another night he spends in the chair as he can't even turn over in bed. The heating will be on all night.

Still he is over 65 and not entitled to DLA so his suffering doesn't count does it? And he does get a half share (£125) of the WFA which I am sure he doesn't deserve.

krisskross

minimadtrix wrote: »

That's one of the things he uses his Incapacity Benefit for

So he must get other money if he has a mortgage and council tax to pay. The DLA won't be counted in his total income.

minimadtrix

krisskross wrote: »

Still he is over 65 and not entitled to DLA so his suffering doesn't count does it? And he does get a half share (£125) of the WFA which I am sure he doesn't deserve.

Well, at 65, he should be getting Attendance Allowance ... if he was receiving DLA before he was 65, and I would assume he should have been with that condition, it should automatically convert over to it

minimadtrix

krisskross wrote: »

So he must get other money if he has a mortgage and council tax to pay. The DLA won't be counted in his total income.

As I said, IS to top up the IB ... which means he gets CTB!

krisskross

minimadtrix wrote: »

Well, at 65, he should be getting Attendance Allowance ... if he was receiving DLA before he was 65, and I would assume he should have been with that condition, it should automatically convert over to it

No he wasn't getting DLA before he was 65. Oddly enough we have never ever seen him as 'disabled'. He has illnesses and is poorly but he would never consider himself disabled. The criteria for Attendance allowance is very strict and it is solely about care needs. My husband has care needs now because of the flare-up but once it is under control then he won't. So no he would not be entitled to Attendance Allowance.

GlasweJen

I wish my DLA could go on fuel payments, as it is I spend more than my DLA every month on home carers from a private company because social services don't see me as a priority because of my age and the fact i live with my parents. I have to work to be able to afford someone to come in and help me take a bath and eat something! My parents work full time and my sister is a carer for a terminally ill relative so I can't even save money by getting mum and dad to help out. I pay for heating with my tax credits which I get because I'm disabled and I work so they're definately a perk but if disabled tax credits didn't exist I would have to sit at home and smell all day because out of work benefits wouldn't pay for what i need. Since i moved home from uni in June this year my mums heating and electric bills have tripled due to me constantly needing the heating on and all the machines i have at night but there's no help for her.

krisskross

minimadtrix wrote: »

As I said, IS to top up the IB ... which means he gets CTB!

Surely if he is on IS he gets his mortgage interest paid. So he is probably better than the pensioner financially. She probably has to pay her council tax. I know we do, along with income tax. It doesn't all stop you know because you reach pension age.

minimadtrix

krisskross wrote: »

Surely if he is on IS he gets his mortgage interest paid. So he is probably better than the pensioner financially.

You're absolutely right ... on a £450 a month mortgage, he does get the interest paid, but it still leaves him over £300 to pay a month - compared to £0 by the pensioner.

Incidentally, if a pensioner only has her state pension, they are entitled to gauranteed pension credit, so no council tax to pay for them either