What are the DLA Rules-procedure Now[2011] Compared to 2 years ago

parsons

Any argument that anybody puts up that they should be compensated more because they haven't been able to work to pay into the State Pension is a load of tosh!

No person over pension age will receive less than £132.60 for a single person and £202.40 for a couple per week. It does not matter if they haven't paid any stamps, they still get it, the same as someone who has worked and paid into the system for 40 years +.

viktory

krisskross wrote: »

Sorry but how is this any different from the people who do get it thinking WE have always got it even though YOU don't so it's not fair to stop it for us.

Bit 'I'm alright Jack' isn't it? Well you used to be, perhaps for not much longer.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Absolutely.

viktory

sunnyone wrote: »

I have just read on the benefits board that a couple on JSA when one reaches retirment age the money they need to live on nearly doubles and that increase is the same as them both gettin HRM for nothing other than the wife being 60 which is as unfair as any other age related benefit change.

Quite right too. A couple or person of pensionable age is giong to need more money. The older anything gets the more maintainence it requires - this holds true about the human body as much as a car. Older people need more heating, specialist food, warmer clothes. Often their housing costs will increase as they need greater support.

parsons

viktory wrote: »

Quite right too. A couple or person of pensionable age is giong to need more money. The older anything gets the more maintainence it requires - this holds true about the human body as much as a car. Older people need more heating, specialist food, warmer clothes. Often their housing costs will increase as they need greater support.

Thank you! I do hope you are talking about yourself!

We are both in our 60's with my wife not far off 70. We don't need more 'maintainence'!! Cheeky.

As for more heating, not true, more fresh air!
Specialist food??? Same diet since I was 20, Fish & Chips on a Friday, Roast on a Sunday and Meat Pie & Chips on a Wednesday.

Housing costs??? What extra support?

I have friends well into their 70's that live life that 40 somethings would not attempt!

We are not past it you know at 60+, most of us are fitter than some 1/2 our age.

We do not need 'extra support' where did you get that idea from?

dmg24

parsons wrote: »

Thank you! I do hope you are talking about yourself!

We are both in our 60's with my wife not far off 70. We don't need more 'maintainence'!! Cheeky.

As for more heating, not true, more fresh air!
Specialist food??? Same diet since I was 20, Fish & Chips on a Friday, Roast on a Sunday and Meat Pie & Chips on a Wednesday.

Housing costs??? What extra support?

I have friends well into their 70's that live life that 40 somethings would not attempt!

We are not past it you know at 60+, most of us are fitter than some 1/2 our age.

We do not need 'extra support' where did you get that idea from?

Gosh, you really should get in touch with our old friend andyandflo, the similarities in your situations are astounding!

parsons

dmg24 wrote: »

Gosh, you really should get in touch with our old friend andyandflo, the similarities in your situations are astounding!

Really? There are a lot of us 'oldies' that are written off far too soon.

Who is this andyandflo? I can't see any postings on this thread.

dmg24

parsons wrote: »

Really? There are a lot of us 'oldies' that are written off far too soon.

Who is this andyandflo? I can't see any postings on this thread.

I'm sure you'll bump into him at some point. Watch out for any mirrors ...

cit_k

snoopy89 wrote: »

knowing this government we will all have to have lie detector tests under a spot lamp with your feet in hot water.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:it will come into force in twenty mins.

They have already tried (more than once, and each time a dismal failure) to try detecting lies over the phone, with voice stress analysis software.

Problem is, dealing with the DWP is enough to make even a saint stressed.

sunnyone

krisskross wrote: »

None of the illnesses that affect my husband's mobility are age related. In fact he has had RA for almost 40 years although he was in remission for a lot of this time.

My husband has always been an 'ordinary Joe' working in factories so didn't build up huge pension rights apart from the state provision.

So again why does he get no help with mobility simply because he has passed the magic 65? Not exactly old is it?

I find it most odd that you all thought it was fine for him to get no mobility help past age 65 even though you could, but dreadful and not right now you are going to be the same. You obviously do not want this wrong to be righted.

pensioners can get AA and a higher rate of money that the goverment say that you need to live on equivilent to both parties getting HRM for no other reason than the date they were born, thats a wash and then add in the WFP, free prescriptions (both wether you are higer rate tax payers or paupers), the pension credit guarented element that means your income can be millions after they assess you but you lose nothing till the renewal date etc. pensioners get more than younger severely disabled people.

sunnyone

parsons wrote: »

Unfortunately it isn't any easier to get AA instead of DLA.
My wife suffers from Chronic Arthritis to most joints. She can't get in or out of the bath, can't dress herself, can't get upstairs to the toilet quick enough etc etc.

A tribunal decided that she should have rails on the bathroom walls and a walking frame to help with moving around, standing etc and a comode downstairs somewhere so she doesn't need to go to the toilet upstairs or fit a stairlift.

I haven't bothered with any as we live in a home not a geriatric hospital ward and certainly don't want a comode in the lounge!

After that decision she has given up!

Your not still spouting that drivel andy, we all know that you are incaperble of nowing true from fiction and you made that up to reply to a thread here and now you dont know wether its the truth or lies. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

AA is very easy to get, I should know because I have helped with the forms for both DLA and AA in the past and AA is awarded very easily by comparison to DLA, Ive never even had to appeal a AA claim which is something most DLA claimants have to do.