MSE News: 'I'm on benefits but I'm no scrounger'

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pompeyfaith wrote: »

That's the point you did not show us how to live of 11k a year because your example was very ill thought out and missed many costs an able bodied family would face let alone a disabled person with additional expenditure

There are many posts echoing the above. I'd like them to state what I've missed.

Noone needs a car. This is always the massive stickler people include in their budgets and it really does get on my nerves.
People who work for their money and can't afford cars or choose not to buy them MOVE TO CITIES. I don't live in rural Wales because I would rather not pay £3000 per year for insurance.

Including optional things in subsistence budgets (benefits) is lunacy.

leedsmodus

pompeyfaith wrote: »

At the moment then that will be increased to 24 hours before you can claim under the welfare reform

yes come april, but over 5 days that is only 4.8 hours a day is it not, or if family could help a full days work may take the bulk of that

huggabunny

jobcentreplus.jobhits.co.uk/TESCO-NIGHT-SHIFT-id-BSD-27442

I would just like to correct the assumption here. This is not a job advert. It is an advert for a place on a Job Centre approved training scheme, I can't remember (or find) the full name but the achronism is SBWA. Tesco's is not advertising to pay someone at JSA rates they are saying that while doing this placement you will recieve JSA as usual plus expenses. The aim of this scheme is to give long term unskilled JSA claimants some actual work experience and it is possible that some may be taken on by Tesco following the placement.

Hope this clears up the mix up.

EDIT

Ok found out what it is Sector-Based Work Academies

dktreesea

sarahg1969 wrote: »

No one knows how much he gets. No one has suggested he is on too much.

And no, I would not like to be in his position.

However.... I do not think that the purpose of benefits is to compensate someone for being dealt a poor hand.

But that's exactly what disability benefits and every other benefit that flows on from them are. You couldn't have put it more succinctly.

thedrsmisses

we dont have any family close enough to help us ross' mum is 45miles away and my family are all in london. life really isn't as easy as many people like to think it is

leedsmodus

thedrsmisses wrote: »

the article isn't abour the amount of benefit he gets or for how long he will have to live on that its about the discrimination and being treated like a scrounger for claiming

I hope things work out for you and your husband, and that his operation goes well. If you are anyway near leeds a top hand surgeon is mr farnell, one of the best in the country !"!" And he does NHS work. He only does hands and nothing else !.

I wish you both all the best. I envy your hubby, i always wanted to be a bus driver but my disability prevented me from it. At least your husband knows he was in a job which i would of given my right hand for !!. (pardon the pun) I remember my past the things i did when i could and i am grateful for them. I travelled before my muscular condition did me in, and that was over 15 years ago. Now with gammy hands myself and legs its a sitting down and one that is stationary for me.

all the best you guys, hope things work out for you two x

alexcross

no meningitis is not a disability I agree but it did leave scars on my brain ( I was very lucky that is all it did) which I needed to attend appointments for and some of the effects were not permanent which i did try to tell them but I was a lot younger then and the law that applies now about discrimination did not apply then they used my annual projection of targets gained against me like I said a low blow but it happens.
its annoying when companies use it as an excuse but they do and I can see why it is frustrating for people like russ and his family get down about it all. most people on DLA or ESA would trade the money they get for a more normal healthy working life. I would happily scrub floors and my hands and knees (and have done in the past) to have my health back and to be able to do the things with my kids that most people my age can. I would happily trade the being knocked off my crutches in the street to be able to stroll down the street at a normal pace and not feel vulnerable every time I venture outside my home and more than anything I would give anything to take this genetic problem away from both my kids who are starting to show signs of it. this is what I feel most guilty about luckily there are things that can be done for them that couldn't for me when I was younger but it still does not stop the tears from falling after they have gone to bed.

thedrsmisses

leedsmodus wrote: »

I hope things work out for you and your husband, and that his operation goes well. If you are anyway near leeds a top hand surgeon is mr farnell, one of the best in the country !"!" And he does NHS work. He only does hands and nothing else !.

I wish you both all the best. I envy your hubby, i always wanted to be a bus driver but my disability prevented me from it. At least your husband knows he was in a job which i would of given my right hand for !!. (pardon the pun) I remember my past the things i did when i could and i am grateful for them. I travelled before my muscular condition did me in, and that was over 15 years ago. Now with gammy hands myself and legs its a sitting down and one that is stationary for me.

all the best you guys, hope things work out for you two x

Thank-you we are to far from leeds although he has an extremely capable and lovely surgeon who is going to do his op, unfortunately he is based in oxford half the month then cardiff but he is the leading surgeon in this type of tumor, my hubby really is 1 in a million the tumor stats tell me so fingers crossed it all goes well and he will be back to work before we know and we can start to repay the benefits we have used

leedsmodus

alexcross wrote: »

no meningitis is not a disability I agree but it did leave scars on my brain ( I was very lucky that is all it did) which I needed to attend appointments for and some of the effects were not permanent which i did try to tell them but I was a lot younger then and the law that applies now about discrimination did not apply then they used my annual projection of targets gained against me like I said a low blow but it happens.
its annoying when companies use it as an excuse but they do and I can see why it is frustrating for people like russ and his family get down about it all. most people on DLA or ESA would trade the money they get for a more normal healthy working life. I would happily scrub floors and my hands and knees (and have done in the past) to have my health back and to be able to do the things with my kids that most people my age can. I would happily trade the being knocked off my crutches in the street to be able to stroll down the street at a normal pace and not feel vulnerable every time I venture outside my home and more than anything I would give anything to take this genetic problem away from both my kids who are starting to show signs of it. this is what I feel most guilty about luckily there are things that can be done for them that couldn't for me when I was younger but it still does not stop the tears from falling after they have gone to bed.

i cry tears many a night, my condition is hereditary. its a case of muddling through life, it sometimes, in fact regularly stinks but hey ho what choice do we have

thedrsmisses

the right hand comment made him laugh btw