new dla medicals

TheBottomLine_2

Some of us are wondering how DLA payments help just because the need is there and the claimant is not necessarily getting the care. You said yourself that your night time needs (such as needing to be turned over) should qualify you for high rate care even though you don't actually have any care in place. How will more money help you with that; for example; will you get someone in to help?

If you don't want to answer the question just say so, but please don't ignore me.

easy

Hannah_10 wrote: »

No I'm saying I'm not managing, and nor are most of us, we're scraping up an existance out of what dregs we're allocated. Dregs which fall below any level we can legally make proper use of.

So when I next can't get up again out of the bath there still wont be a carer on hand. I might stick it out hoping that in another 5 minutes, or another 5 minutes again I will be able. More likely though about 45 minutes in if I still can't do it I will have another little cry in frustration and will finally be forced to call my boyfriend and say "any chance you can let yourself in, I'm stuck?". You ever had to do that? Dignified it is not. You try being an equal participant in a relationship where he's had to drive 30 miles to fish you out of the tub. If my care needs were being met then I wouldn't be bathing in a house devoid of any human help in the first place. This make-shift situation disabled people are forced to endure is neither a humane nor adequate state of affairs for any human being. Under the laws we have I couldn't leave my dog to sit in cold water for an hour and three quarters without expecting to have him removed from me. Am I in your eyes a lesser creature than my dog?

That I have a care need is not disputed, but to infer that not being able to meet my care needs properly makes the money I am being paid a tax-waste is nonsensical and offensive. I need a couple of hundred a week more than I get, in not providing care but providing money instead I'm saving the tresury ten and a half thousand a year.

Oh and while we're talking Kriss, if you're not too busy, can you peg up a couple of blankets please? I don't like to ask but... if you check my previous posts you'll find I couldn't sleep much without them last night. If you don't mind that is.

Hannah, this doesn't make sense. If you can't get out of the bath on your own, don't get in it when you are alone !! If you save up about 5 weeks DLA, you can buy a bath-mate bath cushion, which will lift you in and out of the bath independently.

As far as hanging out blankets is concerned, advertise in your local post-office/newsagents/jobcentre, and employ a cleaning lady to come and do these type of things for you once/twice a week (which is what I do), or use some DLA pay for a laundry service to do them for you.

Then you are using your DLA for your care needs.

Indie_Kid

TheBottomLine wrote: »

Some of us are wondering how DLA payments help just because the need is there and the claimant is not necessarily getting the care. You said yourself that your night time needs (such as needing to be turned over) should qualify you for high rate care even though you don't actually have any care in place. How will more money help you with that; for example; will you get someone in to help?

If you don't want to answer the question just say so, but please don't ignore me.

I am not going to answer this question. I had enough of someone (he doesn't post on D&D, I don't think) wanting an exact breakdown of what people spend their DLA on every week - despite me saying it's impossible. (because I have some one-off costs, such as a talking alarm clock)

tuggy12

sh1305 wrote: »

(because I have some one-off costs, such as a talking alarm clock)

I am intrigued as to why you need a talking alarm clock.

TheBottomLine_2

sh1305 wrote: »

I am not going to answer this question. I had enough of someone (he doesn't post on D&D, I don't think) wanting an exact breakdown of what people spend their DLA on every week - despite me saying it's impossible. (because I have some one-off costs, such as a talking alarm clock)

Fair enough. Can you acknowledge that I wasn't asking for a complete breakdown of your costs and that if you did answer you'd help us understand thus strengthening your case?

easy

I'm quite happy to tell people that my DLA care component is used to pay my cleaning lady and pay for my chiropractor treatments (which relieve the pain in my shoulders).

when_will_it_end

tuggy12 wrote: »

I am intrigued as to why you need a talking alarm clock.

maybe she cant see the numbers properly first thing an a talking one helps

this is SH justifying ( although i dont see why she has to) what she spent some of her DLA on

when_will_it_end

people dont need to explain unseen disabilities in full or be bullied in to explaining where the dla they are entitled to goes

krisskross

when_will_it_end wrote: »

people dont need to explain unseen disabilities in full or be bullied in to explaining where the dla they are entitled to goes

I think in future people may well be required to account for the cash. If someone is claiming the care component in part because they cannot bath unaided and the money is given then you cannot afterwards complain that you have to sit in a cold bath for ages because you can't get out.

when_will_it_end

krisskross wrote: »

I think in future people may well be required to account for the cash.

thats fair enough to the goverment but not on an open forum just so you dont get picked on