Walking stick allowance

ROYLO

Hi, just to clear up a point with my elderly father in law.
He insists that a friend of his gets a one pound a week "Walking Stick" allowance.
He says that his friends Doctor has to sign something then he can get his allowance.
I am very sceptical as someone else told him that from the tv aerial sound comes down one of the co-ax conductors and the picture signal down the other, which he also believed ! Please can someone prove me right or wrong re: this "allowance" as I find it very hard to believe. Thanks in advance, Roy.

Oscar_The_Grouch

Hi there

As far as I am aware (and I've searched Direct.gov just to make sure) there is no such thing.

SingleSue

My father has had a walking stick since the 70's and has never been paid a walking stick allowance...an industrial injuries allowance (now under a different title) yes but not a walking stick allowance.

[Deleted User]

def no walking stick allowance.although the hospital may have provided the actual walking stick

Trialia

Yeah, there is no such thing. I have two walking sticks, but I paid for one of them myself and was given the other by my grandmother.

You can get a decent walking stick from £8, there would be no need for a weekly stick allowance anyway.