Dla to be replaced by pip

oldestrocker

pwales wrote: »

thats what they are stil deciding on at the moment definatly working age but considering children and oap
its only at the stage of conseltation

But they should at least re-test OAP's at least! They tend to be the worst in 'forgetting to tell the DWP when their condition improves'.

Indie_Kid

oldestrocker wrote: »

My wife applied for AA and failed. I was annoyed at first but soon so the sense and realised that the decision was fair. For example:
1. Help with Moving. She finds it difficult - answer given - buy a wheelchair!

There's no mobility component within AA.

GlasweJen

A commode in the kitchen? How disgusting, can't you set it up in a non-food preparation area?

Also having a degenerative illness does not make you privvy to DLA statistics, I know because I have a progressive illness and I have no idea about the levels of DLA fraud, I'm too busy with my own claim.

oldestrocker

GlasweJen wrote: »

I've mentioned on another thread saving £25 from my DLA to pay for a fall alarm, the cost of the service will come from my DLA when I can finally afford one. Local SS say that although I would greatly benefit from one I'm not eligable for support from them because I work.

Currently I get £240 every 4 weeks from DLA, it is spent on:
£70 access to work taxi contribution
If I could work and lived on my own I would need a taxi due to MH issues. As it is my wife is my driver.

£90 to Wiltshire farm foods (basically meals on wheels) this is for 5 dinners and 3 lunches per week
If I lived on my own, I would have to have meals delivered. Due to MH and physical issues I have difficulty in preparing/cooking a meal. As it is, my wife does all of this for me and cares 24/7.

£25 fall alarm savings
I have been assessed by my SS as requiring one. It was provided free of charge. I just pay for the monitoring of it.I have it next to the bed and wear a pendant round my neck.
This is only needed when my wife is visiting our children, otherwise she cares for me 24/7 and consequently I don't actually need it.

£10 dressings for wounds (from fainting)
I have a dressing pack provided free of charge by the Community Nurse.

£15 on private prescription meds (not available on NHS even though my consultant wants me on them but he's nice enough to waive his fee from the cost and I get a staff discount).
I can't afford these. I get along with what the NHS provide.

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And you get DLA??

Looks like I should be entitled too!! But why, I have no financial needs, my wife provides them, I have all the care I need free of charge - so what purpose would throwing money at me in the form of DLA give me that I am not getting already?

The only difference it seems is that I am married!!
Or is it that being single you have to buy the care?
So DLA is really a payment to help single people buy care that married people get for nothing - therefore all married claimants should NOT be entitled to it!

Maybe that is another way we can reduce the burden of the Welfare State.

Indie_Kid

oldestrocker wrote: »

Looks like I should be entitled too!! But why, I have no financial needs, my wife provides them, I have all the care I need free of charge - so what purpose would throwing money at me in the form of DLA give me that I am not getting already?

The only difference it seems is that I am married!!

No, the difference is you asked them to stop your claim. You didn't want the "stigma" of claiming.

GlasweJen

oldestrocker wrote: »

GlasweJen wrote: »

I've mentioned on another thread saving £25 from my DLA to pay for a fall alarm, the cost of the service will come from my DLA when I can finally afford one. Local SS say that although I would greatly benefit from one I'm not eligable for support from them because I work.

Currently I get £240 every 4 weeks from DLA, it is spent on:
£70 access to work taxi contribution
If I could work and lived on my own I would need a taxi due to MH issues. As it is my wife is my driver.
Well I don't have the luxury of having a husband or wife, I was cheated on by my partner of 5 years who couldn't cope with my medical condition.

£90 to Wiltshire farm foods (basically meals on wheels) this is for 5 dinners and 3 lunches per week
If I lived on my own, I would have to have meals delivered. Due to MH and physical issues I have difficulty in preparing/cooking a meal. As it is, my wife does all of this for me and cares 24/7.
I live with my parents who also work so can't prepare meals for me, last time I used a cooker I ended up with 2nd degree burns down my torso from collapsing on the hob.
£25 fall alarm savings
I have been assessed by my SS as requiring one. I have it next to the bed and wear a pendant round my neck.
This is only needed when my wife is visiting our children, otherwise she cares for me 24/7 and consequently I don't actually need it.
You don't need it but you've got it, I need it and can't get one because I get off my backside and work - how is that fair? Chucking DLA at you might not work but chucking a fall alarm you don't need at you doesn't work either, why didn't you explain that you don't need it?

£10 dressings for wounds (from fainting)
I have a dressing pack provided free of charge by the Community Nurse.
I have various different injuries depending on where and when I collapsed, it would cost the GP/district nurse a fortune to prescribe me dressings for different injuries every day.
£15 on private prescription meds (not available on NHS even though my consultant wants me on them but he's nice enough to waive his fee from the cost and I get a staff discount).
I can't afford these. I get along with what the NHS provide.
Unfortunately I can't get by with what the NHS provides because these meds aren't licenced in the UK, fortunately I have a job that gets me these meds for cheaper, if I didn't I would still get them.
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And you get DLA?? Yes

Looks like I should be entitled too!! But why, I have no financial needs, my wife provides them, I have all the care I need free of charge - so what purpose would throwing money at me in the form of DLA give me that I am not getting already?

The only difference it seems is that I am married!!

So your solution would be to marry off all disabled people to save on benefits? why didn't I think of that?

oldestrocker

sh1305 wrote: »

There's no mobility component within AA.

Thank you I am aware of that.
When I say mobility it came under the following headings:

'fall, stumble and moving around indoors'

A powered wheelchair would help with all these three problems my wife has.

oldestrocker

GlasweJen wrote: »

A commode in the kitchen? How disgusting, can't you set it up in a non-food preparation area?

Also having a degenerative illness does not make you privvy to DLA statistics, I know because I have a progressive illness and I have no idea about the levels of DLA fraud, I'm too busy with my own claim.

The alternative is the living room. I'm sure that visitors would not wish to see my wife with her knickers round her ankles watching Coronation Street!!

The kitchen is more private, and the door to the living room can be closed.

The alternative to that is the hallway - oh yes opening the front door with the wife in full flow!!!

No, I like everybody else has no idea about the level of fraud. But out of 8 people that I know that are claiming it - some of which are family members - 6 are claiming it illegally if you go by what the rule book says!!

oldestrocker

sh1305 wrote: »

No, the difference is you asked them to stop your claim. You didn't want the "stigma" of claiming.

Huh???? Pardon?

oldestrocker

GlasweJen wrote: »

oldestrocker wrote: »

So your solution would be to marry off all disabled people to save on benefits? why didn't I think of that?

Don't be ridiculous - I never said that.

The point of the thread was that money given for DLA should be shown to be used for the purpose it was given ie Care or Mobility.

Being married, I have a full time carer already which doesn't cost me a penny. So why would married claimants need money to pay for care - quite simple!

I don't need taxis because I am married and my wife takes me where ever I need to go - so why do married claimants need financial help for mobility?

If I was entitled to HRM, what would I need the money for? I don't need a car, my wife has one. She can't drive two cars!

What I am saying is that the whole idea of DLA needs rethinking about.
It should be based on need and requirement THAT is already not being provided for by family, friends or otherwise.
Looking at that I can see quite a few charities that could fill that gap without the money going to the claimant but direct to the charities instead.