Making cards - Ideas for beginners (part 4)

mary-op

Jazabelle - I'm with the others on this........don't give up on it..........try social services and CAB - they're very good on things like this........always worth a go. Best of luck and hugs...........xx

hogshead

Jazabelle I agree with all the other posters. I am not aware of the full story but seems you were dealt with without the proper representation to assist your claim. I would not give up. Hope you resolve this matter. Take care xXx.

CT19720

Jowri - I was looking through your blog the other day and see that you have made some 2-4-6-8 gift bags with your hoogie board, and wondered whether you could let me have some basic instructions as to how to make them. I've had a look on you tube, but can't find anything.

I am assuming that they could be made with a Scoreboard too.

Thanks

xx

THE-WIFE_3

artydoll wrote: »

A big welcome to izzywizzy,She is my grand daughter and is really into cardmaking and desperatly wanted to join this thread,I hope it was ok for her to join in ?.
I just spent nearly 2 hours making a blog with her so she can put pics of her cards on when she visits next time.lol.

Artydoll, that's fantastic! And I hope you are feeling better now:D

Jazabelle, keep fighting for what is so rightly yours, definitely CAB. Perhaps they thought you would cave in as you didn't have a representative with you. Please also explain to everyone especially your doctor that this is an awful amount of stress you are undergoing. CAB helped the old bat of a stepmother I had get help, she wouldn't let me and my sister help but she would CAB. ( she still haunts me on the 31st October!)

kms26

Hi all this is just a quickie,

Can anyone point me in the right direction for an image for an engagement card and a poem/sentiment would be good too. Thanks all

wanna-b-rich

Just a quickie - is Alee81 about??? If so she urgently needs to look here

Jazzabelle - really sorry to hear your news, hope things work out for you. x

lizalloareds

Jazzabelle sorry to hear your news

jazabelle

TomsMom wrote: »

Jazabelle So sorry about the DLA decision. I take it this is for the mobility part. After DH's bone marrow transplant the hospital arranged for someone to help him with a DLA application. There was a social worker but also someone came from Citizen's Advice. The form is very long and involved and I think it's a good job he had someone who knew how to fill it in to do it for him. He got DLA awarded and although he was very weak and needed lots of help at the time he wasn't in a wheelchair so I don't see how you could be turned down even for the lower rate. Maybe you could speak to CAB or a social worker, or is that where your representative came from? I would be pushing for another hearing when your representative is available to help you.

I was hoping for both - I fit the criteria for high rate mobility, and low or middle rate care.

Mobility is in two elements - unable to walk at all, or virtually unable to walk. They are meant to look at how far you can walk, at which speed, gait, balance, etc. So I would fit the second, as I can walk for about three minutes, slowly, with a stick, often limping and have frequent falls.

And for the care, I need help getting out of bed, showering, getting dressed, making meals. I am a lot better once my painkillers have kicked in, but there are still a lot of things I find very difficult.

My form was filled out by a Care Advisor attached to my GP surgery. My tribunal was helped by Welfare Rights at the council. CAB were useless when I went, I'm afraid. They said they didn't have the resources to help me!

I don't know that I could go through a tribunal again. I've been a complete wreck - throwing up, upset stomach, shattered and stressed.

Thank you for all your kind words!

jazabelle

rainmac wrote: »

Absolutely, brilliantly said DTB, I agree, Jazabelle you should push this point and get them to tell you exactly why they turned you down. I am so so sorry xxx My mum is on DLA and someone helped her complete the form, it was someone from a sight charity (as that's why she claims DLA).

Thank you. I will ask them for their reasons - I have to write to them, and they send them back.

I'm just gutted. I can only work a couple of days a week because of my illness, and because I'm not 25 I don't qualify for any benefits. It's so hard living off a part time wage.

It costs a lot to pay for everything I need because of my illnesses, and I need to keep my car running because otherwise I'd be completely housebound as I couldn't use a bus.

Sorry to be so self-pitying, this has really, really got to me.

jazabelle

Thanks ever so much everyone else.

THE-WIFE wrote: »

Jazabelle, keep fighting for what is so rightly yours, definitely CAB. Perhaps they thought you would cave in as you didn't have a representative with you. Please also explain to everyone especially your doctor that this is an awful amount of stress you are undergoing. CAB helped the old bat of a stepmother I had get help, she wouldn't let me and my sister help but she would CAB. ( she still haunts me on the 31st October!)

I won't give up. I will keep applying until they say yes to make me go away.

I fit the criteria, I have consultants, MRI results, physio reports etc, and still they say I don't deserve anything?