Help with disability premiums please - SUCCESS!

~Chameleon~

Surely receiving approx £20,000 in backdated benefits will take your savings above the threshold which will stop further payments of any means tested benefit?!

~Chameleon~

the_devil_made_me_do_it wrote: »

I did phone the benefit enquiry line & told them my circumstances. The lady just said contact the IB department about it.

So, I telephoned the local IB department & the lady said I wasn't entitled due to being on IB, even tho' I get HRC/LRM.

Seems people get told different things depending who answers the telephone.

The premiums are not applicable to IB only IS or ESA(IR) but then I think that's only if you're transferred over from IS.

Soapn

scottnsharon wrote: »

Thanks Richie useful link. They ve just sorted me and the wifes out,and first of two large amounts hit bank today, we are middle aged, both on high rate care is and ib, and no one gets carers for us, apparently the enhancement part has been used in their calculations of our claim all along (20ish quid at mo) but not the severe disability premium couples rate, but they are happy to pay the whole amount. Still trying to take it in..
I bet theyve missed loads of people though! Regards Scott

I'd like to be cheeky and ask if both of you are on high rate care is and ib and nobody gets carers for you, how do you mangage to look after each other if you are each so disabled?

~Chameleon~

Soapn wrote: »

I'd like to be cheeky and ask if both of you are on high rate care is and ib and nobody gets carers for you, how do you mangage to look after each other if you are each so disabled?

None of your business, really!

Soapn

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

None of your business, really!

ok.

howeer if they are both in such a state they are both claiming everyting going, how can one be looking after the other?

Not much point money being thrown at it is there?

zzzLazyDaisy

Soapn wrote: »

ok.

howeer if they are both in such a state they are both claiming everyting going, how can one be looking after the other?

Not much point money being thrown at it is there?

They could be paying carers to provide care for them, who do not meet the requirements for carers allowance. If you are on means tested benefits you then get the extra allowance because no-one is receiving carer's allowance. and then you have the money to spend on care.

That is exactly my position - I pay for care given by two lovely people who do such work for a living and so do not meet the criteria for carer's allowance. Yet because I am on IB, and not a means tested allowance, I do not get the extra payment. Yet that money would be really helpful to pay for my care (and ironically if I was married/had a live in partner who cared for me, as a couple we'd be entitled to carer's allowance).

richard9991

people on ib or esa contribution and state pensionand jsa can and do recive premiums if the get mrc hrc of dla or AA as a top up as income related benefits top up peoples income ti get incap topped up by income support because i get mrc dla if people get mrc dla and dont get sdp have less savings than £6000 and live alone knowone gets carers allownce for them then ask jcp for a form is 10 and claim the top up

scottnsharon

Hi all, sorry didnt reply earlier, and Im in no way surprised or offended at the obvious questions raised, we live alone are both on high rate care income support and long term incapacity benefit and low rate mob. We both have severe mental illnesses and have both been hospitalised many many times for this but have worked all our lives in between periods of illness, my wife has a broken vertebrae, muscle wastage, no thyroid function, low kidney function, bursitis in both hips, interstitial cystitis, and other gynaeological problems which I am not going to expand upon in an effort to explain ourselves, and has to have regular steroid injections into her hips and sometimes facet joint injections into her spine, I am relatively lucky compared with her that I only have 2 ruptured discs caused through a job in care, sciatica, and chronic back and leg pain (left side only). After 3 years of asking for a scan I was finally given one a couple of weeks ago, and hope they can do something which will allow me to work again as I spend 90% of my time in bed taking painkillers. So if someone beleives we a de-frauding the system please feel free to call the hotline and Im sure they will soon put 2 and 2 together as there cant be that many Scott and Sharons living in Bognor so we should be pretty easy to track down . Good luck to all that need help at the time and use the welfare system as its intended and without fear of prejudice or a warped sense of jealousy - regards Scott

Soapn

The OP says in post 4 that nobody receives Carers for either of them..........................so my question still stands, if they are both in such states, how can they be "caring" for the other one and getting benefit to do so?

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

They could be paying carers to provide care for them, who do not meet the requirements for carers allowance. If you are on means tested benefits you then get the extra allowance because no-one is receiving carer's allowance. and then you have the money to spend on care.

That is exactly my position - I pay for care given by two lovely people who do such work for a living and so do not meet the criteria for carer's allowance. Yet because I am on IB, and not a means tested allowance, I do not get the extra payment. Yet that money would be really helpful to pay for my care (and ironically if I was married/had a live in partner who cared for me, as a couple we'd be entitled to carer's allowance).

scottnsharon

Hi there 'Soap' - we are told by social services that we act as 'unofficial' carers for each other, although my wife has underlying and unpaid carers entitlement for me.. Confusing yes, but the nature of our mental disorders alone gives us entitlement to the higher rate of the care element of dla.

Best regards - Scott