Bedroom Tax and kids living away??

bestpud

Lots of hope being pinned on the Labour party here.

Their ridiculously generous welfare policies got us into this situation!

They won't change it in a hurry - they know they can't afford to!

They might say they will but it won't be the first time a party has back tracked from its election manifesto. They just didn't have the guts to do it themselves.

People are also underestimating how far the recession is hitting tax payers from all angles too and many welcome the benefit cuts.

bloolagoon

SandraScarlett wrote: »

I'm sorry, I probably didn't explain myself right. I have friends who used to sit with DH for a few hours, which was fine when he was in the early dementia stages, but as he his Alzheimers is so much worse, I wouldn't dream of giving that responsibility to anyone but qualified carers.

I'm going into hospital next week, and when I come out, I won't be able to drive for 6 weeks, so I'm paying for taxis for DH to go to his club daily. It's been a nightmare sorting things out, but that's life, and the 6 weeks will soon be over (I hope! )

xx

Apologies, it was not a direct reply to you, per SE (though I did quote you) it just struck a chord that people spend the DLA very quickly on what society once did. Everyone is working so hard, I think we have lost our way somewhere.

sunnyone

mysterywoman10 wrote: »

Yes it does because it is over 50% that have significant disability so from that I take it to mean that they are in receipt of some disability related benefit.

Unless of course you have other information?

Prove it, where are the stats to back up this claim, and not that same crud again please but real stats that dont include everyone who has decided that they are disabled under the DDA.

The goverment use DLA/AA to classify disability, how many severely disabled people are hit by this?

Severely disabled are those on mid/high rate care or either rate of AA because people can get low rate care for very minimal needs like not being able to cook a meal or needing help for one hour per day, the stats for people on low rate care who are hit would also be interesting to see.

Disabled people should not be blanketly exempt form this but there should be exceptions for those that are in adapted properties.

GlasweJen

The whole mid rate care = disability thing is only when it suits the government, I'm certainly never treated as severely disabled by my local council despite being on middle care, high mobility. The biggest barrier I face to accessing housing and disability services is the full time job I hold down, almost all services I am told I could access happen between 9 and 5 Monday to Friday despite the implementation of ESA and the implication that disabled people can be workers too.

mysterywoman10

The quote of significant disabiity is in the DWP's own figures in their impact statement the link was put up on one thread a while back.

But most of us interested in disability rights issues had already read it anyway.

Whilst I do not know the exact breakdown of the figures for them to do the calculations it must be related to their own figures for DLA claimants I would have thought?

I think your reference to adapted properties shows your somewhat insular view of those affected, I understand it can be very easy to become like this when one suffers from a severe disabilty. Many people I know have very severely affected disabled children or adults who have high care needs but are fully able bodied. It isn't just people in wheelchairs that need a high degree of care.

It can actually be more demanding than someone who is in a wheelchair when they are mobile. So they don't necessarily need adaptations.

mysterywoman10

GlasweJen wrote: »

The whole mid rate care = disability thing is only when it suits the government, I'm certainly never treated as severely disabled by my local council despite being on middle care, high mobility. The biggest barrier I face to accessing housing and disability services is the full time job I hold down, almost all services I am told I could access happen between 9 and 5 Monday to Friday despite the implementation of ESA and the implication that disabled people can be workers too.

I would ask them to come at a different time, as you are at work. Most Local Authority workers/health can have time off in lieu for working evenings.

I think a lot of people if their need is great enough will be moving up a care band in PIP because the night time element will no longer exist on the scoring chart.

I agree they push for people with disabilities to work and then don't give them the services and support they need when they do. Must be very frustrating.

raq

i know somebody who has decorated their "Spare room" as a nursery for the grand child as the grand child will be staying with them for 4 days of the week and the other 3 days with the other grand parents

Can they do this?? Basically they are doing this so they don,t get "HIT".

GlasweJen

raq wrote: »

i know somebody who has decorated their "Spare room" as a nursery for the grand child as the grand child will be staying with them for 4 days of the week and the other 3 days with the other grand parents

Can they do this?? Basically they are doing this so they don,t get "HIT".

I'd imagine they'd have to receive child benefit for the child before they could claim a bedroom for it. When will the child be staying with its parents?

Dunroamin

raq wrote: »

i know somebody who has decorated their "Spare room" as a nursery for the grand child as the grand child will be staying with them for 4 days of the week and the other 3 days with the other grand parents

Can they do this?? Basically they are doing this so they don,t get "HIT".

Where does the grandchild actually live?

seven-day-weekend

Dunroamin wrote: »

Where does the grandchild actually live?

Unless they can prove that their home is the child's main home, they will not escape the Benefit cut.

If they can afford to decorate I'm pretty sure they can afford the extra rent.