Budget - tougher for DLA claimants

karatedragon

I actually do wonder how many people spend their weekly DLA money on actual care and mobility needs.

OK - So you have the new car on the lease scheme paid from the Mobility component.

After you have spent the Care Component on adapting your home with hand rails, disabled toilet pans and special utensils -what then?

You surely don't buy these every week or month?

I am pretty confident DLA is often treated as additional income to spend in the household.

deeplyblue

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Oh, I've thought it though well enough. If we stopped paying DLA to people who need help but don't use their DLA to pay for it, we would be able to afford far more for those who have more expensive requirements.

Like bankers, for example.

db

WhiteHorse

Trasthmatic wrote:

But nowhere near the numbers of doctors and civil servants who are assualted or abused everyday by claimants.

Agreed.

On the other hand, I think it only fair to say that at least a few of their assailants were normal, decent people driven beyond endurance.

sock-knitter

in my household, there are 3 off us who get dla, at hrc and lrm, we have never had to go to an appeal, we all have different mh problems, i have a pysical condition too
we spend some of our money on a car, and its running costs, this is ongoing. we pay a cleaner and a gardener, again this is ongoing. we buy a lot of ready prepared fresh foods such as peeled and chopped veg, this is every week,
i pay for therapy privately as the ss refuse to give us an assessment, this is every month too, occaisonally there is enough left over to enable us to eat out, when none of us is capable of preparing a proper meal, most of time we live on jacket spuds and salad, or sandwhiches
i refuse to think about what will happen in 3 years, maybe by some miracle we'll all get better, or we might all get run over by a bus tommorrow, make the best you can of life, when you can

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karatedragon wrote: »

I actually do wonder how many people spend their weekly DLA money on actual care and mobility needs.

OK - So you have the new car on the lease scheme paid from the Mobility component.

After you have spent the Care Component on adapting your home with hand rails, disabled toilet pans and special utensils -what then?

You surely don't buy these every week or month?

I am pretty confident DLA is often treated as additional income to spend in the household.

Actually mine is often spent on additional income for the household. I have to wash bedding sometimes every day, along with several sets of clothes a day. Said clothes and bedding are quickly ruined and need to be replaced more frequently. Along with cushions, carpet, throws and other things that are used daily.

There is also the extra elctricity from having to wash and dry all of this stuff so frequently. And in winter extra heating bills for when I am stuck in the house day after day due to seizures.

Then there is the taxis for when I'm lucky enough to get auras so I dont have seizures on the bus or in the street.

I also use it to supplement my income for when I cant go into work but dont want to call in sick and use unpaid holiday instead.

Do people really have an issue with others spending DLA on stuff like this.

Indie_Kid

karatedragon wrote: »

I actually do wonder how many people spend their weekly DLA money on actual care and mobility needs.

OK - So you have the new car on the lease scheme paid from the Mobility component.

After you have spent the Care Component on adapting your home with hand rails, disabled toilet pans and special utensils -what then?

You surely don't buy these every week or month?

I am pretty confident DLA is often treated as additional income to spend in the household.

Some of us (like myself) have to buy wet wipes every month or two. Then there's the wheat-free food and extra washing.

When I was at uni, I would also buy takeaway when I couldn't cook. Then there's the taxis to & from places.

government_slave

karatedragon wrote: »

I actually do wonder how many people spend their weekly DLA money on actual care and mobility needs.

OK - So you have the new car on the lease scheme paid from the Mobility component.

After you have spent the Care Component on adapting your home with hand rails, disabled toilet pans and special utensils -what then?

You surely don't buy these every week or month?

I am pretty confident DLA is often treated as additional income to spend in the household.

Use most of my sons care component on respite, mind you a months care component only amounts to 4 days respite per month, if I didnt have this money for help with respite I couldnt look after him full time. Also keep a little for pertrol to get him to and from respite [its now over an hour's drive to get there] and day centre costs.

Indie_Kid

karatedragon wrote: »

After you have spent the Care Component on adapting your home with hand rails, disabled toilet pans and special utensils -what then?

Have you never had to replace things like that, then?

Oldernotwiser

deeplyblue wrote: »

Like bankers, for example.

db

Even bankers could qualify for DLA!

Oldernotwiser

sh1305 wrote: »

Have you never had to replace things like that, then?

But not on a regular basis, surely?