Please can somebody help - getting desperate!

skintandscared_2

calleyw wrote: »

No apologies needed. I know my reply may have been blunt but if you are really not sure then best thing is

1) don't say anything.

2)use Google to found the criteria in about 30 seconds flat.

I believe the criteria has been same at least since my husband become disabled 5 years ago. I have gone back to 2000 and can't find nothing that has changed apart from the amount that someone can earn while claiming CA which is still less than a £100 after tax.

I was told that I could claim CA when my husband came out of hospital:rotfl:

I was working and my husband did not get DLA middle rate(another story) so I knew I could not claim it.

The best the OP can do is to see if on care and/or mobility needs her husband can get DLA. Can take up to 12 weeks to get a claim through once you have done battle with the forms:eek:. Will not give loads of money but will tide them over.

See if her husband can get another job and go over to the debt board and do a statement of Affairs. As at the moment ever little helps.

You should never not pay rent/mortgage as you will not have a roof over your head. Or not pay council tax as you could end up in prison, you will at least go to court and then it starts to get messy.

I wish the OP all the best.

Yours

Calley

Well then either the person I spoke to had the wrong information, or the benefit I was being told about was something different, as my OH has a mental illness rather than a physical disability. Anyway, that's not the point. It doesn't cost anything to be polite. And if you are going to be rude, at least get your grammar right. If you "can't find nothing" then you can find something... In future, if you're around, I think I will choose to say nothing...

mealone

skintandscared wrote: »

Well then either the person I spoke to had the wrong information, or the benefit I was being told about was something different, as my OH has a mental illness rather than a physical disability. Anyway, that's not the point. It doesn't cost anything to be polite. And if you are going to be rude, at least get your grammar right. If you "can't find nothing" then you can find something... In future, if you're around, I think I will choose to say nothing...

Maybe you should post correct information in the first place and then cally wouldn't have to correct your misinformation (and not a little wrong but totally, absolutly and catagorically wrong btw) and it makes no diffrence if a disability is mental or physical as to what benefits people can claim so you are wrong once again about that.

merlin68

I'm dealing with 4 on £24000. Your water bill is huge mine is £32. I also manage to pay my rent of £308 and council tax of £80. I don't understand, if your mortgage and council tax are in your budget why they haven't been paid.
I'm afraid there aren't any benefits to someone with your income, so your going to have to prioritise your spending.

calleyw

skintandscared wrote: »

And if you are going to be rude, at least get your grammar right. If you "can't find nothing" then you can find something... In future, if you're around, I think I will choose to say nothing...

Oh, please :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: You have nothing else to pick me up than my grammar. So that makes you rude. As it is very rude to pick someone up on grammar on a forum.

The information that was supplied was incorrect and misleading. My first assumption was correct. No awareness of the criteria to claim CA. I do understand that you where trying to be helpful but you where incorrect and muddied the water.

As far as I am aware there is no other benefit for someone caring for a disabled spouse to claim. The disabled spouse can claim DLA for their own care /mobility needs.

I am in no way an expert and there are many others who post in their own time who provide brillant advice here. I just tend to dip in and out.

As I said I was blunt not really rude. If you think that was rude then what ever you don't go over to the Discussion time.

All the best.

Yours

Calley

MissMoneypenny

calleyw wrote: »

As I said I was blunt not really rude. If you think that was rude then what ever you don't go over to the Discussion time.

Then perhaps you should keep your "blunt" posts in the Discussion time board?

You corrected the poster but you could have exercised some manners when you did that.

Oldernotwiser

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

Then perhaps you should keep your "blunt" posts in the Discussion time board?

You corrected the poster but you could have exercised some manners when you did that.

There's nothing wrong with speaking bluntly, particularly when it's justified.There was nothing rude about Calley's post (unlike Skint's reply) and it was totally accurate (unlike Skint's).

I think you're criticising the wrong person, but let's move on.

MissMoneypenny

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

There's nothing wrong with speaking bluntly, particularly when it's justified.There was nothing rude about Calley's post (unlike Skint's reply) and it was totally accurate (unlike Skint's).

I think you're criticising the wrong person, but let's move on.

calleyw wrote: »

Do you know anything about the criteria for carers allowance?

Obviously not.

You don't think that's rude? That was the post that started Skint's replies. Would it have hurt calley to just say something like "that is not correct"?

We will have to agree to disagree. As you say, lets move on.