Help- Had Carers Allowance, I.S and SMI taken off me!!!

benefitbaby

Billy_two_speakers wrote: »

there is no way the £15 a day petrol money will be seen as anything other than income

the dwp will treat it as income as you say he could have put petrol in the car but did not she got cash

If it were my case I would be arguing that it was voluntary payments and therefore disregarded income as detailed in the regs. I accept your point however I was merely trying to make the point that the OP received £15 for petrol costs not part of any scam or fraud but merely to enable her travel to her caring commitments and rather than vilify her we, on this board, should try to be a little less judgmental.

missapril75

EvieSaver wrote: »

I like the idea that money spent on petrol does not count as income. I wonder if we could try it? :beer:

To be fair, there are situations where it doesn't.

missapril75

zoominatorone wrote: »

Unless you're an MP:D

:rotfl:
Especially one that 'flips' home and second home.

Even more if you are an MP couple, both flipping.

missapril75

@benefitbaby

Good post. Nice to see a more reasoned response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

Billy_two_speakers

benefitbaby wrote: »

If it were my case I would be arguing that it was voluntary payments and therefore disregarded income as detailed in the regs. I accept your point however I was merely trying to make the point that the OP received £15 for petrol costs not part of any scam or fraud but merely to enable her travel to her caring commitments and rather than vilify her we, on this board, should try to be a little less judgmental.

I am sure if I had been daft enough to do what she had done I too would put forward many a story to try and get myself out of trouble, the differance is with me the penny would have dropped that I was in the wrong and needed a get out of jail plan.

The poster has not been able to grasp or seems not bothered just what they have done

an attitude that given the way some papers and many people see people on benefits does not help the cause.

if i could think up some great excuse for them I would but thats not where we are at, so she IMO has to first take on board how serious what she has done and move forward.


In the UK the circumstances in which the offence began (e.g. there is a plain difference between a legitimate claim which becomes false owing to a change of situation and on the other hand a claim which is false from the very beginning); as this was is more serious.

in this day and age 18 months is the time she would be looking at as it was false from start and 2nd offence taking cash regardless of use. but worse of all is the damaged done to all the people getting by on what they can get legally and being given all sorts of names.

SuziQ

my uncle gave me the cost of my fuel plus an extra tenner per trip,

I have no axe to grind with you, but I think you should be awre tha your story changes a bit, before your interview. Later on you said you received £15 and made no profit from it, which isn't what you said initially.

brittone05

I can't help with the entitlement to benefits side but can sympathise with the dementia side. My mother in law who is now 84 has had vascular dementia for the last 4 years ( diagnosed ) although we suspect it's onset at least 2 years previous to diagnosis.

the difficult thing about interpreting the level of care required at any stage of VD is that, unlike Alzeimer's and non vascular dementia, it doesn't have a gradual route of deterioration. Vascualr dementia is onset due to small seizures in the blood vessels supplying the brain - a person diagnosed can go months on the same plane then have a series of small seizures that aren't openly recognisable, and deteriorate quickly over a matter of hours to only stay at that particular level again for considerable lengths of time.

My mother in law spent the last 4 years being fully able to wash and dress herself. She was not allowed to be trusted with medication ( she would forget she had taken them or in which order to take them so take sleeping tablets at 7am instead of paracetamol etc ) and was supervised by a family member at meal times when she wanted to cook. At times when no family was there, the cooker would have to be powered off and the microwave replaced for one that was "safe" for metals to go into.

In the span of 3 weeks, she had a series of mini seizures which saw her now unable to remember which order to dress in, often that it is deemed proper in society to actually wear clothes. She has had power of attourney placed between her 2 eldest children as she isn't deemed able to manage her finances and now needs supervised care for the majority of the day and night.

totally unrelated to the benefit side of things but aybe a little insight into vascular dementia from my MIL's deterioration xxx

plum2002

feelthelove wrote: »

you are right, this place is full of self righteous !!!!!! sitting behind their pc's judging people all day long, most i suspect are fat lazy out of work scroungers living in a dream world pretending to be paying everything and doing the right thing .

I agree with that!

EvieSaver

missapril75 wrote: »

To be fair, there are situations where it doesn't.

Great news! I'll just get my uncle to give me permission and I'll start deducting all petrol costs straight away. Thank you.