Help with drop curb into drive

jetta_wales

Hammyman wrote: »

Why doesn't he pay for this out of the DLA he is getting which is a benefit paid to cover additional costs because of a disability?

If he gets DLA this for many goes on the everyday living cost associated with their disability and for some it doesn't even cover that. Do you have any idea how much home care costs?

dark_lady

Of course he doesnt. He would have more idea of costs like these if he didnt have a wife that worked full time right until the end of both pregnancies.

MonkeyLady

marvin wrote: »

Always worth it to see when the council are going to do any paving/kerb repairs replacement as they will often do a cheaper deal then, had mine droped recently in Birmingham for £146 although I have yet to get a garage put in had to get the surveyor to use his imagination as to where the garage would go and that the current layout of the garden is not going to be the end layout.

I think I may hate you a little bit. We've just paid our council over £1k to come and drop ours!! :eek:

Hammyman

dark_lady wrote: »

Of course he doesnt. He would have more idea of costs like these if he didnt have a wife that worked full time right until the end of both pregnancies.

Yeah...shame on us for not leeching off the state as seems to be a requirement for this board.

dark_lady

Hammyman wrote: »

Yeah...shame on us for not leeching off the state as seems to be a requirement for this board.

All im saying is if it wasnt for your wife, you would have had no choice but to claim a benefit when your back was really bad.

Instead of thinking "There but for the Grace of God go i"(a way of thinking which is rapidly dissapearing from society) people seem to prefer to think "Im alright Jack" or get off on acting the martyr.
Incidentally ive seen so many different "suggestions" on this board as to what DLA should be spent on from drop kerbs to heating to food etc etc and yet the same people also convieniently forget that DLA is for care and mobility needs. Even if a person was to save up all their DLA to pay for a drop kerb to be done this would take time and the disabled person still needs to get in and out of their home in the meantime. Including going to work which is what is expected right!!! Yet people like you also suggest that the DLA should pay for heating bills too so its supposed to stretch to the moon and back is it? So going by the same principles shouldnt the same things be said of Child Benefit. But no thats different isnt it because you were forced into having your children whereas people choose to be ill or disabled dont they?!!!!