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Newspapers Report "Disabled Car Plan Racket"

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  • dark_lady
    dark_lady Posts: 961 Forumite
    Thanks Pstuart. I fully expect though that beller will be back on here under a different username. It wont change the fact that he isnt quite clever enough to pull it off though.

    To Beller.....Better luck next time LOSER!!!
  • ramsas
    ramsas Posts: 146 Forumite
    edited 23 June 2011 at 7:36AM
    beller wrote: »
    Oh yes!! You tell my wife that.

    I have no career - I am low skilled and will ALWAYS earn the minimum wage. Have done for years.

    Housing! You try finding a 2 bed place to rent for less than £400 a month! We rent in the poorest area which is rife with crime, drugs etc.

    Leisure!! What leisure? Don't drink, don't smoke, can't afford a car. We just about exist from week to week with enough money to buy food and nothing else.
    you really are some kind of idiot!!! and if your wage that low i cannot believe that you don,t get housing benefit..you whinge you got a low skilled job...maybe if you had something worthwhile to offer you would get a better paid one...regards free rent!! i am disabled but pay full rent and full council tax so your comments are not valid across the board and peoples situations are subjective...do not come on this forum slagging people off who you do not know and have no idea has to what peoples problems are...all you are doing is exposing yourself as some kind of first rate jerk who needs get a life.not for one minute would you want to experience what i have been through yet you open your big mouth firing off your empty jibes at everyone...truly you would not dare speak to people like you have on this forum on a one to one basis..so wind your neck in!!
    Loyal to those deserving!!.
  • pipkin71
    pipkin71 Posts: 21,821 Forumite
    beller wrote: »
    All I'm saying is that being disabled with an income of over £418 a week is a little it rich when I have to work 32 hours to gross £190!!
    beller wrote: »
    I'm not jealous at all. I wouldn't want to be disabled.
    beller wrote: »
    We just about exist from week to week with enough money to buy food and nothing else.
    beller wrote: »
    I've just read this and I think I may be looking at trouble round the corner.
    Section 2 now reads like the ESA test. It used to be a lot different a few years ago. It used to be that if you get any rate of DLA you got section 2 automatically. I don't have any of those problems in the test but do get DLA lower mobility.
    Would I have to tell the tax office now?
    Been getting credits since they started and disabled tax credits before that and work 17 hours.

    Seems to be a bit of confusion between posts there.
    There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you - Beatrix Potter
  • jetta_wales
    jetta_wales Posts: 2,168 Forumite
    pipkin71 wrote: »
    Seems to be a bit of confusion between posts there.

    Lol the recent trolls really haven't been up to much have they?
    "Life is what you make of it, whoever got anywhere without some passion and ambition?
  • dark_lady
    dark_lady Posts: 961 Forumite
    "sigh" Trolls aint what they used to be.:D
  • happy_lass
    happy_lass Posts: 464 Forumite
    Beller. My daughter was born disabled. She is 19 and is like a big baby. She is 24 hours care. I was dead set against getting a motobility car for her at first. But then our old car conked out and we could not afford to replace it. So, we opted for the motobility car because then we could take her to her hospital trips without relying on my mom. She will NEVER be able to hold down a job. She will always be reliant on others for support (god knows what will happen to her when me and hubby are not around). She gets full disability benefits. She didnt ask to be born the way she is and i bet she would give up all her benefits to be sound of mind. Are you seriously going to moan and begrudge her all that she gets???:huh:
    life is what you make it, make it fun !
  • dark_lady
    dark_lady Posts: 961 Forumite
    beller wrote: »
    Take it out of context would you, mind you I must admit it does sound confusing.

    So to put your mind at ease. Yes I am disabled. Yes I have been for many years. Yes, I have full backing from the medical team that look after me to prove that I have needs, both care and mobility (according to the rules for DLA). No I don't claim DLA. I prefer to work and be accepted as 'normal' by my work colleagues who along with my employer, knows nothing about my conditions and I wish it to remain that way.

    And NO I would not want to be 'disabled' and to feel that people were always thinking of ways of 'trying to make my life that bit better'.
    And NO, I would not want to be that disabled that I was not in full control of my life.

    Does that make it clearer for you?
    in this post you say you dont get DLA. In another post you say that you get DLA low mobility. When you keep contradicting yourself like this you cant be too surprised when most people on this thread (me included) dont believe you.
  • dark_lady
    dark_lady Posts: 961 Forumite
    Beller you are flailing around on here trying to reverse what you said in earlier posts and its too late once youve already contradicted yourself.
    Honestly i cant work out whats worse. The lies or the fact that you must love playing the martyr IF what any of you say is true.
  • happy_lass
    happy_lass Posts: 464 Forumite
    beller wrote: »
    No I am not!!!

    What I moan about is the abuse that is rife with mobility cars that they are seen as 'the family car' used by everyone for every reason, including going back and fro from work with the car parked up all day 60 miles away from home where the DLA recipient lives.

    The rules of use aren't tight enough!!
    but it is our family car !! we use it to take daughter out, hospital trips, doctors, food shopping, taking her to and from day centre. Everyhting we use it for is for the family and her needs. You can also have other family members as nominated drivers.
    life is what you make it, make it fun !
  • Chorlie
    Chorlie Posts: 1,029 Forumite
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    beller wrote: »
    Take it out of context would you, mind you I must admit it does sound confusing.

    So to put your mind at ease. Yes I am disabled. Yes I have been for many years. Yes, I have full backing from the medical team that look after me to prove that I have needs, both care and mobility (according to the rules for DLA). No I don't claim DLA for what I am entitled to, just the lower rate of mobility that helps with the tax credit claim.. I prefer to work and be accepted as 'normal' by my work colleagues who along with my employer, knows nothing about my conditions and I wish it to remain that way.

    And NO I would not want to be 'disabled' and to feel that people were always thinking of ways of 'trying to make my life that bit better'.
    And NO, I would not want to be that disabled that I was not in full control of my life.

    Does that make it clearer for you?



    Why don't you claim high rate DLA if you're entitled to it?

    If you know someone is abusing the Motability Scheme have you reported it to Motability?
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