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disabled and not entitled to benefits?

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  • amus
    amus Posts: 5,635 Forumite
    healy wrote: »
    Contribution based ESA does not have a time limit.

    Ah sorry Im getting it mixed up with JSA.
  • andyandflo
    andyandflo Posts: 791 Forumite
    edited 10 September 2010 at 8:13PM
    sh1305 wrote: »
    It's the care they think you may need - not the care that every person with your conditions will need.

    Ah so, then it is my fault for trying to cope and saying that I can when in reality I can't, as opposed to saying I can't do a damn thing for myself, when I can but don't tell them I do.

    Now you have me totally confused.

    Maybe you are saying that although the DWP accept that with my conditions I might need help with care and mobility, but if I am too proud to admit to it, then I am penalised?

    May I suggest you have a look at the Pancreatitis forum website and tell me if I don't need help!
    I am, as far as I am told, the only member that does not get ESA never mind DLA for what I suffer from!

    What a way to run a system.
  • Vader123
    Vader123 Posts: 1,104 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    andyandflo wrote: »

    What a way to run a system.

    Its only going to get harder!

    How is the house building going? You were building two dwellings I seem to remember? :rotfl::rotfl:

    Vader
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