new dla medicals

Hannah_10

Currently High Rate Care (the one you get if you need 24/7 help) is paid at £71.40 a week. This is £10.20 a day, or 1 hour 45 minutes of minimum wage employment. If you really tried to buy care 24/7 with this you would have to find someone prepared to work for fourty two and a half pence an hour.

Or perhaps you have a care need for several hours a day, but not all day. Shall we say you need 6 hours of help a day for arguements sakes? Your rate of pay is £47.80 a week. Or one pound fourteen pence an hour.

And if you just need checking on for half an hour two or three times a day? Well that's £18.95 a week, or one pound eighty an hour.

Just as soon as you can find me a carer (to replace my the dog, mobile phone and loved ones I rely upon) for the money I am allocated I shall get them in here! They can start with putting the blankets in the washing machine out, they've been washed every day for three days so far because I haven't been able to manage to lift the basket with them in. I am wondering how much this is gonna cost me in powder before boyfriend pops in and I can kind of casually mention it, whilst still trying to conduct a relationship as if we were truly equals. Thank God I've got all that care money to fall back on eh!

easy

sh1305 wrote: »

As a result of a condition I have, I've developed an unheard of side effect, which isn't mentioned in any texts publshed by goups such as RNIB, Moorfields Eye Hospital & Nystagmus Network. (UK & America) So what would happen in my situation then? I'm certainly not lying about being in pain 24/7.

So your situation is similar to mine, in that there is no diagnosis for me, I don't have a condition which has a name. I do have muscles and joints which don't work properly, poor sense of balance, and increasing pain as I get older.
My medical history documents all this, and a proper examination by an independant GP confirmed it all.
Seems to be a system that would work for anyone. And Must work better than the current system, which includes an umpteen page form which apparently even well-educated people can't fill-in, and doesn't get properly read anyway, according to many of the posters here.

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

Having applied for DLA & had to appeal then go to tribunal before being awarded my low rate care/mobility I can state for a fact that they don't believe everything you write on your form. They write to your GP & Specialist's for they're medical opinions to see if they confirm your difficulties.

When they wrote to the Pyschiatrist I was seeing at the time he claimed I had a personaility disorder despite the fact that I had told him that i'd been diagnosed with Asperger's. He said that he didn't believe that I had Asperger's so wouldn't even take it into account.

Consequently I was turned down as they didn't even bother writting to the Pychiatrist that had actually diagnosed me. :eek:

I think that getting DLA has been gradually getting more difficult for a few years now from the evidence of the amount of threads you see where people have been turned down when they have obvious care/mobility needs.

sh1305 wrote: »

They only did this the first time after I asked to go to appeal. The scond and third time they didn't bother. The second time, they told me that I can't possibly have bowel problems. I also found out (because of the bunch of papers I was given before my tribunal) that they think that Nystagmus doesn't cause balance problems - obviously, those that have the balance problems (at least 90% of people I know with Nystagmus have mentioned these problems) are lying.:mad:

And they haven't bothered contacting my GP or consultants this time either. Ho hum, looks like another appeal then.:mad:

Again, see my comments from above.

If the current system is failing applicants so badly, why is there so much outcry at the suggestion that it should be changed to include a medical assessment ??

krisskross

Hannah_10 wrote: »

Currently High Rate Care (the one you get if you need 24/7 help) is paid at £71.40 a week. This is £10.20 a day, or 1 hour 45 minutes of minimum wage employment. If you really tried to buy care 24/7 with this you would have to find someone prepared to work for fourty two and a half pence an hour.

Or perhaps you have a care need for several hours a day, but not all day. Shall we say you need 6 hours of help a day for arguements sakes? Your rate of pay is £47.80 a week. Or one pound fourteen pence an hour.

And if you just need checking on for half an hour two or three times a day? Well that's £18.95 a week, or one pound eighty an hour.

Just as soon as you can find me a carer (to replace my the dog, mobile phone and loved ones I rely upon) for the money I am allocated I shall get them in here! They can start with putting the blankets in the washing machine out, they've been washed every day for three days so far because I haven't been able to manage to lift the basket with them in. I am wondering how much this is gonna cost me in powder before boyfriend pops in and I can kind of casually mention it, whilst still trying to conduct a relationship as if we were truly equals. Thank God I've got all that care money to fall back on eh!

My point is that you appear to be managing without receiving the care you say you must have. Why is almost £300 a month just handed over with no checks on whether the person is actually getting the care they say they need to survive and that the taxpayer is paying for.

Doesn't matter how paltry a sum you think it is you get it for a purpose.

I don't suppose anyone will want Social Services to come round and allocate you a certain number of hours per week in lieu of the cash payments.

krisskross

sh1305 wrote: »

And they haven't bothered contacting my GP or consultants this time either. Ho hum, looks like another appeal then.:mad:

I thought you had an indefinite award? Or have you been reading too much on here and decided to do an Oliver Twist?

Indie_Kid

krisskross wrote: »

I thought you had an indefinite award? Or have you been reading too much on here and decided to do an Oliver Twist?

I should be on high rate care - hence askng to look at it again.

My point is that you appear to be managing without receiving the care you say you must have. Why is almost £300 a month just handed over with no checks on whether the person is actually getting the care they say they need to survive and that the taxpayer is paying for.

Many of us live with other people who give us the cae. In return, I pay my parents a little over my care component each week.

when_will_it_end

i think that if more in depth medicals were done at the begining of the claim then there would not be as many problems as there is, an those that exagerate there problems would be caught out quicker an then those that are entitled may get more help quicker

TheBottomLine_2

sh1305 wrote: »

I should be on high rate care - hence askng to look at it again.



Many of us live with other people who give us the cae. In return, I pay my parents a little over my care component each week.

Maybe your parents can claim carers allowance?

Indie_Kid

TheBottomLine wrote: »

Maybe your parents can claim carers allowance?

They earn too much money / work too many hours to claim this. I know mum was looking into it years ago when my brother was on mid rate care; but that would leave them much worse off.

krisskross

sh1305 wrote: »

I should be on high rate care - hence askng to look at it again.

Aren't you risking what you already get? Having to go to a tribunal each time would make me a bit nervous in light of reducing the people claiming.



Many of us live with other people who give us the cae. In return, I pay my parents a little over my care component each week.

But you already said you get no night time care as your parents work. Reckon you might be on a sticky wicket here.

Indie_Kid

krisskross wrote: »

But you already said you get no night time care as your parents work. Reckon you might be on a sticky wicket here.

It doesn't mean I don't need the help. Ideally, I need to be turned over at night. Because I hav no-one to do that, I wake up in a lot of pain.

DLA is given for help that is reasonably needed - not what is received.