disabilty grants in scotland?

coley1_2

My mum has been told that there are no grants available to help her repair her roof. she is receiving full DLA. We live in Glasgow. Is there anything she is eligible to receive? Please advise.

Indie_Kid

Has she spoke to the council?

sunnyone

coley1 wrote: »

My mum has been told that there are no grants available to help her repair her roof. she is receiving full DLA. We live in Glasgow. Is there anything she is eligible to receive? Please advise.

As far as I know there are no grants for anyone, anywhere to fix there roof, you are normally expected to add it to your morgage, as a home owner things like this happen all the time and if money was available for such things any disabled person could buy a run down, cheap house and have it done up at the publics expence.

We bought a house that needed a new roof because the origional roof was nearly 2 centuries old so we and the vendor split the cost between us.

You could ask for an estimate for a repair from a reputable tradesman, the estimate should be free and then talk to the morgage providor.

GlasweJen

Don't know if this helps but we live in North Lanarkshire and when our council neighbours were getting their roofs done for free we were allowed to get ours done at the same time for a reduced cost, you could ask Glasgow city council if they can do something like this for your mum?

Failing that I can't think of a grant for roofing, what does she need doing? Is it loose tiles or is a full blown roof needing re-done?

lin_c_2

Hi,

Has she tried to claim her building insurance?
That's what we did when we had problems a couple of years ago.

Kind regards,

Lin

headcone

GlasweJen wrote: »

Don't know if this helps but we live in North Lanarkshire and when our council neighbours were getting their roofs done for free we were allowed to get ours done at the same time for a reduced cost.

Taxpayers paying for spongers.

IT has to stop.

Pay your own way.

GlasweJen

I am a tax payer, I have 2 jobs and I get taxed on both.

Oh and they're both white collar jobs as well before you make allusions on that.

I think the councils' idea was while the scaffolding was up they might as well let everyone who wants a roof get one and because the council were buying the materials in bulk to do an entire area they just wanted some money towards the cost of the materials and we had to pay for the mens time.

To be fair on you I wasn't a tax payer at the time but I was recovering from major heart surgery and I'm sure you wouldn't grudge a teenager who'd born with severe cardiac and neurological problems a safe roof over their heads?

headcone

GlasweJen wrote: »

I am a tax payer, I have 2 jobs and I get taxed on both.

Oh and they're both white collar jobs as well before you make allusions on that.

I think the councils' idea was while the scaffolding was up they might as well let everyone who wants a roof get one and because the council were buying the materials in bulk to do an entire area they just wanted some money towards the cost of the materials and we had to pay for the mens time.

To be fair on you I wasn't a tax payer at the time but I was recovering from major heart surgery and I'm sure you wouldn't grudge a teenager who'd born with severe cardiac and neurological problems a safe roof over their heads?

You make it sound even worse.

Do you live in ex authority housing? Sounds like it.

Robbing society twice by the looks of things.

GlasweJen

No I live in a house that used to belong to the local mine. The mining company was washed out in the area and sold the houses to the council when the mine closed, there was an option for the families who occupied the houses to buy them from the mine and as my great grandfather lost his son in the mining disaster which caused the mine to close he was very sentimental about the house and did not move on or sell it.

He bought the house (quite a nice semi-detached corner plot in case you're wondering) and my grandfather (his son) inherited it when he died, he lived their with my gran until she passed away and granda got ill from cancer so our family moved in to help look after him and my dad got the house when he passed away.

coley1_2

Thank you to everyone who suggested something useful! Will pass all this on to mum. As for the person who decided to use this reasonable question to start having a go at others...i hope you don't have to experience the pain of a disability and require the support of living allowances. Both my parents have been paying their national insurance stamps since they were 15 and now is their turn to benefit from this. The reason for asking about grants is because friends have received them in England and we wondered if there was a similar scheme.