Important news about Social Fund

helen123456_2

I agree that Direction 4 (a)(ii) and 4 (a)(5) deals with those re-settling into the community as part of a planned resettlement programme and those needing to remain in the community rather than enter residential care and that those groups of people are likely to have a 3rd party helping and advising them on what to claim. But what about the families under exceptional pressure (Direction 4(a)(iii)? Exceptional pressure on a family can take many guises, including lone parent struggling after a break up of a relationship, health, relationship & financial difficulties. A lot of benefit claimants do not necessarily have a 3rd party helping them and therefore would not know about Community Care Grants.


When it all boils down, my post was intended to try and help inform people and I am sorry if you can't see that. I do feel sorry for the staff answering the phones, but I feel more sorry for all the thousands of benefit recipients who will receive no help whatsoever after 31st March.

SPELLKASTER

I went to apply to the social l fund several years ago for help to purchase a washing machine as mine had broken down, however when I told them I had a working partner, I couldn't claim a thing as it was mean tested!!

Hmm71

SPELLKASTER wrote: »

I went to apply to the social l fund several years ago for help to purchase a washing machine as mine had broken down, however when I told them I had a working partner, I couldn't claim a thing as it was mean tested!!

What's wrong with that? Didn't your working partner earn
enough money to get the machine repaired or buy a second-hand one?
(Or are you being facetious?)

BigAunty

SPELLKASTER wrote: »

I went to apply to the social l fund several years ago for help to purchase a washing machine as mine had broken down, however when I told them I had a working partner, I couldn't claim a thing as it was mean tested!!

Is this a joke? Or did you really have employment income coming into the household and thought DWP loans/grants operate like a bank for the public?

missapril75

helen123456 wrote: »

But what about the families under exceptional pressure (Direction 4(a)(iii)? Exceptional pressure on a family can take many guises, including lone parent struggling after a break up of a relationship, health, relationship & financial difficulties. A lot of benefit claimants do not necessarily have a 3rd party helping them...

That's a smaller category and it may be true, but I believe most do. Having worked a few decades in the system there are the housing/homeless officers involved where they've been rehoused; the women's aid organisations/refuges, social workers etc.

It's quite rare that the sort of exceptional pressures described don't involve someone like that.

As I said, there are exceptions, but where people have handled their situations without the need of such support workers, they likely have other support options.

When it all boils down, my post was intended to try and help inform people and I am sorry if you can't see that.

Oh I can see that. It's just that I have also experienced the down side.

I do feel sorry for the staff answering the phones, but I feel more sorry for all the thousands of benefit recipients who will receive no help whatsoever after 31st March.

Me too. Although it's not no help whatsoever but an alternative system.

I have no doubt it will be an even worse system. It usually is.

zoominatorone

BigAunty wrote: »

Is this a joke? Or did you really have employment income coming into the household and thought DWP loans/grants operate like a bank for the public?

apparently so, and the op doesn't think that her partner should support her financially either---godd old Jonny Taxpayer gets fleeced again

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she's opened another thread asking if she can claim ten years back pay for some benefit or another:mad:

fed_up_and_stressed

SPELLKASTER wrote: »

I went to apply to the social l fund several years ago for help to purchase a washing machine as mine had broken down, however when I told them I had a working partner, I couldn't claim a thing as it was mean tested!!

Yeah poor old Spellkasters partner won't help her pay he is only on 24grand a year AFTER tax and they don't have a mortgage or rent and with her 11 grand a year ish benefits ....obviously then when the washer breaks down who gets asked to pay ....Oh yes the taxpayer !!!!!


Erm you do claim "a thing" spellcaster dla care and mobility and also esa ...forgotten about them ? YOu get more in benefits alone than I earn in wages with a severe medical condition and yet you still REPEATEDLY waste time asking on multiple occasions if you can claim Disability income related premiums when you have been told on numerous time your income way exceeds their cut off points.