Bedroom Tax and kids living away??

mysterywoman10

bestpud wrote: »

Is there any need to make personal remarks about another poster? Especially completely unfounded ones.

Have you ever added up how much a family with 'disabled' children can access in terms of help and money?

It's relevant if they are being charged for that child to have their own room, as most will be able to afford it until such a time as they are entitled to the extra room.

That was a long day you went off for by the way - lasted 2 minutes! Hope you enjoyed it!

Yes in this instance it is necessary because I know she is causing a lot of distress to other people and I stated a FACT because the evidence is there in black and white on the thread in the Discussion area on the Spina Bifada thread

I'm definiately going NOW!

Dunroamin

Witch_Hazel wrote: »

Just picking up on these two parts. Mysterywoman is correct sunnyone they claim benefits in their own right, at the beginning it looks like people will loose a lot when their disabled child leaves education, I myself felt this way until you actually sit down and do the maths.

DS is due to leave FTE in the summer and I have done all the sums, as he will be on ESA until we are able to find suitable employment.Granted the first 13 weeks whilst going through the assessment, things will be tough as he will be on a low amount of money to what we are used to getting but after the assessment he will either get £99.15 or £105.05 per week.
Really the only amount of money you loose is child benefit. Because the DLA is still in place and what you loose in child tax credits including the extra premiums you get back in ESA.

But surely at that point the income becomes the child's rather than the parents'? Just as when an adult child is earning or claiming JSA, that doesn't mean that s/he will give it all (or any of it for that matter) to the parents for their keep.

Apologies if I've misunderstood.:)

seven-day-weekend

Dunroamin wrote: »

The one thing I don't do is lie - if I did, it would cause me less trouble.

Same here. .

Witch_Hazel

GlasweJen wrote: »

But you also lose access to the family fund, your son may be refused ESA and forced to appeal which can be up to a year on the basic rate with no additional money. DLA claims are more difficult for adults and he will be reassessed for PIP in a few years time. It's not all straight forward.

We never ever ever went down the route of the family fund, personally I felt the government was handing out enough in benefits without going cap in hand to a charity.As for ESA and PIP when the time comes I will worry about them, I'm certainly not going to get in a flap about something I can do nothing about at this moment in time.

wattdallas

Dunroamin wrote: »

The actual point (which I quoted earlier) is "that leads to significant difficulty with one or more areas" and you're rephrasing this (incorrectly) as "significant disability".

Regarding funding for disabled children, you're new here but there are many posts from parents of children who leave home to live independently who see their household income plummet when the disability funding leaves with the child, showing how much they've come to rely on this to supplemet general household expenditure.

If in fact that were the case then both parents would now bw able to work full time and even have second jobs if they wished.

And then there are other parents of disabled children who will never go on to live independantly and will require constant care for the rest of their lives

Witch_Hazel

Dunroamin wrote: »

But surely at that point the income becomes the child's rather than the parents'? Just as when an adult child is earning or claiming JSA, that doesn't mean that s/he will give it all (or any of it for that matter) to the parents for their keep.

Apologies if I've misunderstood.:)

Yes sorry, I'm making things personal when I'm trying not to, like nanny I am using our situation as an example.The benefits will of course become the child's rather than the parents',

Dunroamin

mysterywoman10 wrote: »

Yes in this instance it is necessary because I know she is causing a lot of distress to other people and I stated a FACT because the evidence is there in black and white on the thread in the Discussion area on the Spina Bifada thread

I'm definiately going NOW!

Having just realised what you're on about, I've answered it on the relvant thread.

Dunroamin

wattdallas wrote: »

If in fact that were the case then both parents would now bw able to work full time and even have second jobs if they wished.

And then there are other parents of disabled children who will never go on to live independantly and will require constant care for the rest of their lives

I think that the first comment is a bit extreme as many parents with disabled children do work. Also, the fact that a child may need constant care doesn't necessarily mean that this care will always be done by the parents and in their own home - many disabled people live in a residential setting, funded (in part) by their benefits.

bestpud

Dunroamin wrote: »

Having just realised what you're on about, I've answered it on the relvant thread.

I just had a look as I can honestly say you have never struck me as someone who would lie.

One of the problems with being immersed in disability issues day in, day out, is it becomes everything.

Mysterywoman - a confirmed lie would be two posts by the same person that contradict each other completely. We get a lot of that on here but that hasn't happened in this case.

Could you do with stepping back a bit? Genuine question.

Confuseddot

Mysterywoman can you maybe provide the link to the document you are refering I have searched this thread and can't seem to find it.

Is it talking about the same survey that is mentioned in Dunroamin post ?

Just a bit confused for a change