new to this help needed please x

kingfisherblue

dotty101 wrote: »

Hi wondered if anyone can please help i have a disablity which is getting worse and now need my fiance to look after me through the day and night i do get dla at higher rate.

We need him to give up work to look after me and my disbled son who recieves low mobilty and medium rate care.

This is what we recieve at the moment please could anyone advise on benefits my partner could claim for himself.

dla higher rate for me £526
dla mediumcare low mobilty for my son £289.60
child tax credit £ 459.60
child benefit £81.20
carers allowance i claim for my son £233.80
housing benefit £ 194.95 every two weeks
council tax reduction
working tax credit £96.25
partners wage £1047.00

this is what we were recieving before him having to give up work he wont recieve his wage and working tax credit when he gives up work but if anyone can advise us on benefits he could claim i would be grateful.

thanks

So presumably you will be informing the Carer's Allowance Unit that you are no longer able to care for your son, due to needing a high level of care yourself, but that your partner will be claiming instead?

I assume that you will be giving up your own claim to CA, as you say your partner is needed to look after both yourself and your disabled son.

midnight_express

kingfisherblue wrote: »

So presumably you will be informing the Carer's Allowance Unit that you are no longer able to care for your son, due to needing a high level of care yourself, but that your partner will be claiming instead?

I assume that you will be giving up your own claim to CA, as you say your partner is needed to look after both yourself and your disabled son.

Pigs mught fly!

kingfisherblue

midnight_express wrote: »

Pigs mught fly!

Just a suggestion

Seriously, though, the OP did state that her partner is needed to care for both her and her disabled child, so she should give up her CA. I'd love the OP to come back and answer this.

Metranil_Vavin

is this for real?

clemmatis

Metranil_Vavin wrote: »

is this for real?

It's one of two, three?, posts today, by newbies, that sound like wind ups to me, wind ups intended to stir up prejudice against people who claim benefits.

But of course it might be genuine.

mikey_bach

if it is a wind up someone has gone to great lengths to get the correct figures.

My favorite case scenerio goes like this
Two customers on long term IB, in payment, both recieving DLA care middle or high and mob and receiving U/E entitlement to carers allowance and on the top up of I.S
Now if you see what that amounts to, plus housing benefit and council tax benefit
and single people get next to nothing to live on it just not right