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

parsons

sunnyone wrote: »

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.

Again, I entirely agree with you.

The whole idea of more money being available because of the simple issue of age has gone on for far too long.

As regards Pension Credit I think that that in itself is disincentive to saving money, paying your mortgage off out of income, working for over 30 years and paying into a private pension.

Why should I be given an OAP amounting to approx £160pw and have £40 a week from a private pension when I could have done no work in my life and still get £200 per week for it!

In future people should get out of the system what they have put in.

parsons

sunnyone wrote: »

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.

As for the first part I am at a loss to understand what you are talking about.

It seems that you do not believe me when I say that AA is as difficult to get as DLA.

If you would kindly let me have your email address I will send you a copy of the First Tier Tribunal Decision held in Brighton on the 2/2/10 Before Ms J Talbot Mr Hesselberg Dr A Dunbar
The Decision Notice says that it was Unanimous and the appeal was refused. Would you like me to quote the Reference Number?

Your statement is incorrect - people do fail the AA claim and they go on to lose the appeal. My wife had a Welfare Rights advisor help with the form and appeal.

Hence the reason why my wife has refused to do it again.

Molly41

Scaremongering again !

parsons

Molly41 wrote: »

Scaremongering again !

Please contain your comments to something you know a little more about!

If you would like a copy also of the Decision all it needs is your email address!!!

sunnyone

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.

Do you know anything at all about major disability?

My bones are in worse nick than a ninety year olds according to my doctors, they are crumbeling apart from where my RA is deforming them, I need surgery for my scoliosis and the two slipped discs in my neck but no surgeon will do it because of the quality of my bones, my body cant self regulate its own temperature so Im always cold, I have ulcers (which cant heal) throughout my digestive system due to the drugs that I have to take daily so I have a very limited diet, I have pressure sores that get infected all the time for several diffrent reasons, I have to live in a very large house so that I can wheel around it, I have paid out well over 300k for my home and adaptions but there is only so much that can be changed to make things easier and now nothing else can be done.

But I did it (bought and adapted my home) and I did it to give me as much independance as I could and that worked for a few decades and now thats not enough but I still have to pay for the care that I need, my OT has told me that I wouldnt have to pay if I was over pension age due to the way that the financial assessment is loaded against younger people, hows that fair?

99% of pensioners are fitter than me, I didnt choose to be like this and at least most pensioners did have good health preretirement, I havnt nor did my bad lifestyle choices cause my ill health, not something many pensioners can say when they are coughing their guts up due to the millions of cigarettes that they have chosen to smoke in their lifetimes, I dont even drink!

Invalidation

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.

QED
You have a bizarre warped logic, which is selfish and bizarre to say the least.

You are very sad.

Deal_Chaser

I am sorry if I am taking this thread off one particular group however I am working & have been ALL my life I have only recently applied & been awarded DLA on indefinite basis. however, with the new regs will this mean that despite the fact I have many specialists that backed up my claim will it now have to re-assessed by an unknown person on face to face basis or on ACTUAL med info via specialists again????

sonorman

Deal_Chaser wrote: »

I am sorry if I am taking this thread off one particular group however I am working & have been ALL my life I have only recently applied & been awarded DLA on indefinite basis. however, with the new regs will this mean that despite the fact I have many specialists that backed up my claim will it now have to re-assessed by an unknown person on face to face basis or on ACTUAL med info via specialists again????

From what I hear you will be assessed by specialist trained staff of ATOS that are more knowledgable than pure medical people (GP's Consultants etc that only deal with the diagnosis and treatment side).

I personally would feel more comfortable with dealing with a specialist in disability needs than a GP or Consultant who I might see once every 3/6 months for 10mins at a time.

If you had a BMW car where would you take it for a service? Some back street gararge that normally deals with simple oil changes of any car or a specialist BMW dealer who is an expert in that one particular car?

I know where I take my BMW to, for everything and anything.

melbury

I think if people are completely honest then they would agree that the whole DLA situation has been very lax and I certainly don't agree with the Motability scheme, except for the most disabled.

Why should people get a brand new car with everything paid for except petrol. I know people say that they give up having the money to have the car instead, but it is still all benefit and so not costing them anything out of their own pockets.

It is totally ridiculous and I hope this is stopped.

Of course the people on here who benefit from having a new car every couple of years courtesy of the taxpayer will not agree.

Blitz01

melbury wrote: »

I think if people are completely honest then they would agree that the whole DLA situation has been very lax and I certainly don't agree with the Motability scheme, except for the most disabled.

Why should people get a brand new car with everything paid for except petrol. I know people say that they give up having the money to have the car instead, but it is still all benefit and so not costing them anything out of their own pockets.

It is totally ridiculous and I hope this is stopped.

Of course the people on here who benefit from having a new car every couple of years courtesy of the taxpayer will not agree.

You could always try engaging your brain before spouting such utter, idiotic rubbush.
My daughter is severely disabled, and i would swap that in flash for the sake of a car.

BTW.....I pay over £1500 PER MONTH in income tax, so i would suspect, that with that figure, i am subsidising YOUR lifestyle somewhere along the line rather than you subsidising me.