Living Abroad - IB/ESA Cont based

Boots888

Thanks Dunroamin,

I wrote the DWP 2 months before my departure and they sent me the S1 nearly a year later so I've got that. I need to register here but haven't done so at it means going into the nearest city with a load of paperwork etc.

There may be help here but as a "foreigner" abroad there is no help like those going to the UK get. Even the benefits claim forms are translated into numerous languages to facilitate the ability to claim, then you've all the charities helping out.

It's not like that abroad. & that's fair enough

Teahfc

I had this dream of moving to Spain some years ago, different to your circumstances in I could take my work with me, I still had my illness which meant I had to have to rely on some special medical persons in the UK,after doing alot of homework realised that to even see anything slightly legal required a translator. No help like some wealthier countries offer,My surgery was going to strike me off along with denstist etc.
Having to rely on benefits and not having any support would panic me and with current UK cutbacks you are a brave person to have ventured out.DWP will be under instructions to cut back and have more medicals/assesments for those claimants which if you are overseas could be difficult and pricey to keep getting flights back.
Best of luck to you and if you have moved to sunnier climate that alone makes you feel better ..well it does me

Boots888

Teahfc wrote: »

I had this dream of moving to Spain some years ago, different to your circumstances in I could take my work with me, I still had my illness which meant I had to have to rely on some special medical persons in the UK,after doing alot of homework realised that to even see anything slightly legal required a translator. No help like some wealthier countries offer,My surgery was going to strike me off along with denstist etc.
Having to rely on benefits and not having any support would panic me and with current UK cutbacks you are a brave person to have ventured out.DWP will be under instructions to cut back and have more medicals/assesments for those claimants which if you are overseas could be difficult and pricey to keep getting flights back.
Best of luck to you and if you have moved to sunnier climate that alone makes you feel better ..well it does me

Thanks - I must say I do feel I've made a brave move, just me and my cat with all my possessions. However, I did this before when I was younger, fit and able and could always run home to Mum!! So although I did the right thing, I don't have that chance to run back home anymore, Mum's no longer around - so this is it. Sometimes I think OH Crikey! Blimey Oh reilly what am I doing here! I just wouldn't have had any hope in the UK, I felt really let down by my country and my peers in so many ways.

It is very sunny here today and that makes me feel soooo much better - it's also very windy so I can't sit outside without getting blown away but rather look out the window to clear skies, than to grey, miserable cloudy skies!!

You are similar to the earlier poster and I think it's just not worth the worry of relying on the benefits system for future security. I'll go through the next claim process and see what happens but I really don't want to either a) consume myself with worry in the meantime, waiting or b) have to fight and appeal.

I should be happy what I've got while it lasts and shave my legs ready for the lovely weather that is coming next week:o

krisskross

Boots888 wrote: »

Thanks - I must say I do feel I've made a brave move, just me and my cat with all my possessions. However, I did this before when I was younger, fit and able and could always run home to Mum!! So although I did the right thing, I don't have that chance to run back home anymore, Mum's no longer around - so this is it. Sometimes I think OH Crikey! Blimey Oh reilly what am I doing here! I just wouldn't have had any hope in the UK, I felt really let down by my country and my peers in so many ways.

It is very sunny here today and that makes me feel soooo much better - it's also very windy so I can't sit outside without getting blown away but rather look out the window to clear skies, than to grey, miserable cloudy skies!!

You are similar to the earlier poster and I think it's just not worth the worry of relying on the benefits system for future security. I'll go through the next claim process and see what happens but I really don't want to either a) consume myself with worry in the meantime, waiting or b) have to fight and appeal.

I should be happy what I've got while it lasts and shave my legs ready for the lovely weather that is coming next week:o

We lived in Spain for a few years. Money and benefits was never an issue for us. It was medical care that brought us back to the UK. Although free as were all our prescriptions it was the difficulty of getting treatment for Rheumatoid arthritis
which was the main issue.

Loneliness as well, although my Spanish was 'passable' it wasn't up to conversational levels so we were a bit limited with making friends Sometimes the sun and the warmth just don't cut it.

Boots888

KrissCross,

I don't know how old you are but I understand that a lot of people go back to the UK as their conditions worsen.

I also know many want to go back to family.

I'm still farely young, with no kids or commitments. I've no one and nothing to return to in the UK and until I get really ill physically and have the need for the familiar NHS system and surroundings the grass IS greener here for me.

With mental illness and/or loneliness, it doesn't matter where in the world you are. But I would say that living in the UK with both of the above is particularly hard as folk are really inadaquate at looking out for eachother.

Put that together with lack of proffessional help and there's absolutely no reason to stick around.

Also I'm fortunate to be able to speak a number of languages that I learnt in my younger years, but I don't speak the language of the country I'm currently living in yet. Saying that, it's not been a problem for me

Dognobs

Your benifits should be stopped! Why should I pay for your better life in the sun! If you could not afford to move you should not have moved!!!

Morlock

There is one thing that has struck me on these boards, there appears to be a strong correlation between fervent, anti-benefits protesters and semi-literacy. Coincidence?

Boots888

Dognobs wrote: »

Your benifits should be stopped! Why should I pay for your better life in the sun! If you could not afford to move you should not have moved!!!

1.Well my benefits won't be stopped as long as I'm entitled to them

2. Well if you feel that bad about it, do something about it and stop paying for my "better life in the sun" - take control

3. I could afford to move, so I did.

Thank God!!

& can read the Daily Mail from here and all those vitriolic reports and responces to those on benefits, not just those living in the sun, but everyone in receipt of state help

You are supposed to support and help eachother, but your post emphasises the hatred you have for eachother.

I'm away from that now, Only in the UK is there such vitriol, everywhere else it's live and let live and it's the way it should be.

Boots888

Morlock wrote: »

There is one thing that has struck me on these boards, there appears to be a strong correlation between fervent, anti-benefits protesters and semi-literacy. Coincidence?

Can you expand on that?? There's always been both but could you put it into context?

Boots888

Morlock wrote: »

There is one thing that has struck me on these boards, there appears to be a strong correlation between fervent, anti-benefits protesters and semi-literacy. Coincidence?

Ok you just popped in to make some conveluted comment which you can't expand on and won't now cause you've signed off for your tea.:T
Ta for that, what a waste of time!