Newspapers Report "Disabled Car Plan Racket"

jetta_wales

Chorlie wrote: »

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?

Not because they applied and weren't entitled to it of course lol. No they applied but specifically said only to give them lower rate and that they didn't want to be considered for the higher rates :rotfl:

This just gets more and more amusing,

GlasweJen

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.

Why don't you try getting some qualifications then and pay some real tax?

I have an MSc and have been disabled since my school days, others on here have degrees, doctorates, PhDs etc. If you're on a low income you'll get some money towards courses. I had to pay full fees for my masters and work it around my full time job and my disability.

Honestly, the cheek of it.

olias

jetta_wales wrote: »

invalid carafes

Can you tell me where you get these, as my wife is on DLA and she likes a glass of red every now and then!:p

Olias

GlasweJen

beller wrote: »

I left school at 15 in 1965 and had no idea what I wanted to do. I did take a few GCE's got Maths, English Lang, History & Physics. Never went back to school to collect the certificates! I'm a musician really and did a bit here and a bit there.
Never had a steady job, couldn't be bothered to be honest.

Travelled Britain picking up a job or two. Got to 30, married and had 2 kids. Had to get a job, so I went fruit picking in the summer and odd jobs in the winter.

Found this job years ago, cleaning, polishing and general tidying in a small factory.
Too old now to do anything else.
Qualifications to me mean nothing. No need for them. School was bad enough. There are just as many qualified people like drivers and doctors and nurses out of work than there are others, so why bother.
We just about manage.

What are you hoping to do with all your qualifications then?

I'm currently doing another MSc in Biotechnology as an interest course while doing the ABDO fellowship dispensing diploma. I currently work in an optical practice and do something called community monitored retinal screening where basically I have a list of diabetic/elderly patients who have problems with diabetic neuropathy and I monitor their conditions in the community by taking photos, measuring optical pressures and collating results taken at their own opticians and at the hospital and send results back to their GP/diabetic specialist so that their care can be monitored without taking up space on hospital waiting lists. It's a pilot at the moment but the scheme has been really good so far with more than 1 crisis averted (as the NHS traditionally only sees a person every year for ret screening).

When I get the dispensing diploma I'm hoping to get into low vision and eventually want to work with the Deafblind community developing aids as what we have just now is woefully inadequate.

birkee

beller wrote: »

I left school at 15 in 1965 and had no idea what I wanted to do. I did take a few GCE's got Maths, English Lang, History & Physics. Never went back to school to collect the certificates! I'm a musician really and did a bit here and a bit there.
Never had a steady job, couldn't be bothered to be honest.

Travelled Britain picking up a job or two. Got to 30, married and had 2 kids. Had to get a job, so I went fruit picking in the summer and odd jobs in the winter.

Found this job years ago, cleaning, polishing and general tidying in a small factory.
Too old now to do anything else.
Qualifications to me mean nothing. No need for them. School was bad enough. There are just as many qualified people like drivers and doctors and nurses out of work than there are others, so why bother.
We just about manage.

What are you hoping to do with all your qualifications then?

That sounds like a wasted life.

And as for the money paid for disability that you've been throwing around, I get the £51 pw mobility allowance, plus the min DLA of about £16(?)
That gives me about £67 plus my pension (which I paid for.)

Much of the rest of the benefits you have been throwing around, would be paid to some, whether they were disabled or not. HB, JSA, etc etc etc, and I get NONE of these.

I'll go with many of the other posts, you are either a troll, or stupid.

jetta_wales

olias wrote: »

Can you tell me where you get these, as my wife is on DLA and she likes a glass of red every now and then!:p

Olias

Ahh the joys of auto correct

(Department of Work and Penguins is still my favourite one)

I'm dyslexic so autocorrect on iPad just loves to make a tit of me at any given moment and my sight's !!!! so I rarely spot it when it does it.

pipkin71

beller wrote: »

I am quite happy with what I get. I don't want to be greedy. It is better to just ask for a little and have no problems getting it (no medical etc - just based on what the GP said) than to ask for everything and have to possibly appeal which I couldn't face.

The thing is though, when you submit your DLA renewal forms, you don't tell them what you want, they tell you what you are entitled to.

If you have only been getting DLA lower rate mobility for all these years, that is simply because that is all you are entitled to and they have decided that you don't have enough care needs for even lower rate care.

Also, it's not up to you to decide whether or not you need a medical, the decision maker will decide that, so again, this isn't based on what you have asked.

From what you've said, you're now 60 or 61?? With the PIP coming in, in 2013, everyone will be having a medical at some stage - you won't be able to say to them: 'Don't bother with my medical, all I want is lower rate mobility, thanks.'

jetta_wales

I like the accusations that the disabled are taking the !!!! when this person gets some DLA, CTC, WTC including disabled premium apparently, probably some HB maybe even a council hous as it doesn't sound they'd ever have been able to buy. I certainly don't get as many benefits as that.

And at least those here that aren't able to lead a fulfilling career and earn a good living have a very good reason for not being able to do so, not just because they failed at life.

And who is it that is actually taking the !!!! here? lol

birkee

jetta_wales wrote: »

Ahh the joys of auto correct

(Department of Work and Penguins is still my favourite one)

I'm dyslexic so autocorrect on iPad just loves to make a tit of me at any given moment and my sight's !!!! so I rarely spot it when it does it.

What, with the USA's treatment of the English language, it's hard to keep a breast of current spellings.

pipkin71

jetta_wales wrote: »

And who is it that is actually taking the !!!! here? lol

Maybe it does stem from jealousy, as someone else said earlier, I think.

They are not entitled to higher rate mobility and therefore hates that others are. They may even feel that they should be more entitled than some others who actually do get HRM, and so their anger seeps through in sort of an attack on those who do get it, thinly veiled by all this 'fraud' talk.

There's someone else like this on MSE. She applied for DLA, didn't get it and now attacks how much money a disabled person receives because 'they shouldn't receive so much.' Wouldn't have been complaining had she got it, but, turned down, jealous of others, starts spouting drivel.

I see a pattern