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Financial Help For Blind Person
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princessdon wrote: »Your diagnosis is very new?
Will it change or deteriorate to get higher rate
higer rate is for day and night needs.
what night needs can be attributed to visual impairment?0 -
If you can get a free bus pass because of your disability you can also apply for a bus pass with a 'C' on it, this enables anyone travelling with you on the bus free travel.
The C is for Companion.
Contact your council.make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
they will find it difficult moving onto middle rate care. if he has only recently deteriorated enough to be registered blind, then its quiye possible that he still has a reasonable amount of sight ( for a blind person!)
Not everyone has the same experience you do, These are workers facing losing their home and each person has different needs. They don't have a HB back fall you have. They need to pay buildings and contents insurance, allow £70 pm for maintenance plus bills and council tax!0 -
i honestly dont know what my visual field or auity is. i can find out but i dont know right now0
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retrogamer666 wrote: »Whats SH ??
I Have been told tha my sight will not get better it will only get worse with time
Sorry - social housing AKA council homes - full rent is paid there and lower rents or help with low incomes (sorry it's my personal bugbear that home owners are not treat the same) so ignore this.0 -
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how much, if anything can you read of the chart.
do you have any peripheral sight?
what condition do you have?0 -
i cant read anything from the chart and again other than being blind i do not have a condition my sight is poor because of a brain tumor i had which is now gone.0
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there is no chance of high rate care then.
what care needs do you have?
i know it sounds daft but what can you see?
it is relevant0 -
what do u mean what care needs do i have, i cannot go anywhere or do anything without some1 taking me therr or helping me do something.i cant even make myself a cup of coffee everything has to be more or less done for me, using this PC is more or less the only thing i do all day everyday and it has had to be adapted for me to be able to use. i get up in the morning i need my wife to help me in and out the shower. if i have a hospital or docs appointment i have to be taken by my wife or my father, other than that i spend all day in this computer chair because i havnt had anyhelp from anyone other than my wife and family and when my wife goes to work she leaves me something to eat and drink, i dont move from this seat unless i have to go t the bathroom until she comes home.
icant be any simpler than that0
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