Budget - tougher for DLA claimants

Indie_Kid

krisskross wrote: »

I have to pay for my glasses with my own money, shock horror. I also need new ones each year as I have a degenerative eye problem. Cost is usually about £350.

I also have a degenerative eye problem too. Plus, I do need reaction lenses - these alone are £50.

Why do you come across as so bitter towards those of us who get DLA?

ash4becks

easy wrote: »

So you are not prepared to accept treatment, because you feel it would "send you backwards" ?

But surely, your mental health problems may cloud your judgement on this issue?

Very often, a depressed patient refuses to take anti-depressants, because they believe that will not solve the problem. But they believe that, simply because the blackness of depression doesn't allow them to see any solution will work (believe me, I know what I'm talking about, I have personal experience of dealing with this).




Your continued efforts to avoid the situations that make you feel uncomfortable/anxious cost you money (which is one of the reasons you claim DLA). But you are not accepting the treatment which could help you manage the mental health aspects of your disability ?

Sometimes, the doctors/consultants who have experience of treating other people who have been through the sort of traumas you have experienced do actually know how to help. You should try the treatment.

iam taking anti depressants have been for 4 years now at least , iam waiting for rapid eye movement for post tuomatic stress

krisskross

sh1305 wrote: »

I also have a degenerative eye problem too. Plus, I do need reaction lenses - these alone are £50.

Why do you come across as so bitter towards those of us who get DLA?

I'm not bitter. I think it is very good that disabled people get financial help. I do agree that the disability must be proved though.

However you complain incessantly that you don't get enough. Obviously you must as you say you have managed to save £7K

jimbms

ash4becks wrote: »

iam taking anti depressants have been for 4 years now at least , iam waiting for rapid eye movement for post tuomatic stress

Ok now I am lost, as far as I am aware every living person on this planet already has rapid eye movement every time they sleep. As for post traumatic stress, doctors have been trying to tell me I have had it since the Falklands jolly and should get treatment for it which totally baffles me as I feel fine.

Brightness

I am not going to answer individually as list is getting far too long. Taken me ages to read the daily email!

For those parents who have children with ADHD etc I for one am glad that they can get some help. My eldest was diagnosed at 18mths (he is now 24) we got no help yet he was sleeping for about an hour out of 24 and that was in 5-10 minute naps - incidentally, his ADHD was diagnosed by hair, saliva and nail clippings sent to Gt Ormond St and also by charts that we had to keep. For five years my hubby and I had to take it in turns to go to bed at nights even though we were both working - him full time and me 30m hours just to pay the mortgage on a tiny house - no social housing available for us. We got no help in those days for sons condition either & we had him on an organic diet whilst we ate beans on toast LOL.

Neither my hubby or I had ever claimed a penny in benefits (with exception of child benefit) until a few years ago. I was disabled in a road accident that wasn't my fault and all the paltry compensation I received went on sorting out our house so that I could be reasonably independent (ie take myself to the loo etc).

I refused to claim DLA until I really needed it so I think if you don't need it then don't claim it (one poster says he claims it but doesn't need it). DLA has made my life a heck of a lot easier and no we don't go out for takeaways or eat convenience foods etc - my hubby and kids all pitch in to help me - we had a treat the other night though - a takeaway to celebrate our anniversary woweeeee!

It worries me that my needs will be put into the hands of others - surely just because I am disabled I should still be allowed a choice - my brain still functions properly (well, on a good day anyway. Due to medication this is not always the case). I personally don't want some stranger from an agency helping me to shower or bath or coming into my home to do things for me - I'd rather sort these things myself thank you.

The government pick on Disabled people because we are an easy target. Maybe they should pick on long term out of work people who don't want to work or people from EU countries who claim benefits to send home.

Or, how about stopping legal aid to prisoners who are suing the Prison service because their beds are too hard or a drugs dog has jumped on their bed and caused an allergy (yes it does happen).

Or illegal immigrants being held in custody and costing the taxpayer a fortune - just send them home! People living in grand houses paid for by the system. Single mothers having one child after another so they don't have to go to work (I know three who have a child every four years so that they can stay at home - children get left to their own devices and I'm darned sure that the benefits for them don't get spent on them as the mothers are regularly seen up town drunk as skunks (pardon the insult to skunks) whilst the children are left with someone else.

There are plenty of other ways to cut costs without picking on those with disabilities. Maybe if you have a short term condition that may get better in time then yes, medicals are a good idea but what about someone with a long term condition that they have been told is progressive.

I don't wish to discuss my conditions as I am sure others don't but please don't judge us all as money grabbing scroungers when we are just trying to live as normal & as independent a life as possible.

As I said in my earlier post, I am not going to worry about the medicals until the time comes but I am quite upset by some of the remarks that have been made by people on here.

Hope you all have a good day :~)

sock-knitter

sh1305 wrote: »

Exactly. I don't have extra income left after spending my DLA on things I need. Sometimes, the things I need (such as getting new glasses every year) costs more than the DLA and I have to use my own money.



Exactly. It's not unusual for me to burn myself or the food when cooking.



This is disguting.

i need new glasses every year, i've never claimed dla for them as its not a care or mobility need, i also need the ones that react to light, again have always had this, but wouldnt class it as a disability

magicstrawberry

I have just been watching this come through and i knew that if the torys got in this would be the consequence.

I think the best bits are when they continue to state that they want to support those unable to work whilst getting the workshy back to work.

But as many people know that is a fantastic theory but is sleddom seen in practice.

Originally i believe if it had been changed to a medical with the same criteria it would be great less form filling in and for one i would have nothing to worry about. That would defiantly remove the fakers from the system.

But i fear as many people have stated they are moving the goal posts so that very few people will be able to recieve it and i really do think the fakers would still find a way.

One question though, DLA is for people both in and out of work but for those say in work, working full or part time by removing this support i wonder how many people will be unable to remain in work? not saving money then would they.

Im not ashamed of claiming DLA my condition has got much worse in the last year but the amount of times benifit bashers whom think its something for nothing and really dont realise how much of a difference it makes.

I have told people many a time you can have my DLA and all the problems along with it and il have your health, they shut up pretty quickly.

I think there will be mass appeals again not saving money.

ash4becks

jimbms wrote: »

Ok now I am lost, as far as I am aware every living person on this planet already has rapid eye movement every time they sleep. As for post traumatic stress, doctors have been trying to tell me I have had it since the Falklands jolly and should get treatment for it which totally baffles me as I feel fine.

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/pdf/emdr.pdf

flash backs are the main thing for me, clinging to my friend for dear life when i see the bast*erd that did this to me, if someone touches me the wrong way i panic and loads of other things

jimbms

Remember it is not the Torys who got in it is a Lib/Tory government, and also you have to remember it is years of Labour overspending that have got you lot in the UK into the poor state it is now. As I have previously stated I have DLA and like you say my condition to all outside seems as though there is nothing, but as stated here we have a medical every claim and I do not fear it, last time they actually increased the amount due to the medical, so I cannot see why anyone genuine would object to the medical, if you are diagnosed and getting treatment for a condition then they can't argue, it is the ones trying it on who have the most to fear.

jimbms

ash4becks wrote: »

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/pdf/emdr.pdf

flash backs are the main thing for me, clinging to my friend for dear life when i see the bast*erd that did this to me, if someone touches me the wrong way i panic and loads of other things

Still doesn't answer the rapid eye movement statement, and if things are that bad then as someone else said you should seek professional treatment tablets do not cure everything.