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Appealing the Bedroom Tax

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  • nannytone_2
    nannytone_2 Posts: 13,004 Forumite
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    tomtom256 wrote: »
    You won't know until you apply!

    Kind of a defeatest attitude don't you think.
    obvious;y youfeel i just sit at home and do nothing!

    i attend work focused interviews ( when i insist on having them!)
    i have also taken part in 6 courses in the past 18 ,omyjd.

    have they got me any nearer employment?
    no they havent, but i have done everything i poosibly cant to make myself more employable.
    i am innteligent, articulate and an asset.
    so its my fault that no one has seen fit to offer me a job>

    obviously it is and i will stribe more to force myself to counteract the fact that i have no sight.

    i cant be trying hard enough can i?
  • tomtom256 wrote: »
    You won't know until you apply!

    Kind of a defeatest attitude don't you think.

    Just buck up and change your attitude?

    pretend she doesn't face major external obstacles and blame her 'wrong' attitude for her difficulties finding employment?
  • nannytone_2
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    Can I please ask Sunnyone and Nanny that this does not degenerate into a personal arguement AGAIN many thanks in advance.

    Going back to the original point of the thread is that many people will have grounds for appeal because of their disability.

    For me it isn't a competition about who is the most disabled and everyone copes in different ways.

    as sunnyone(?) regu;arly points out. o am 'just' blinf.

    and i am. but she also isnt under the threat of having every degree of security removed,

    she isnt affected by the vuts, and clearly sees that anyone that is affected.... is only effected because they havent helped themselves!
    thats ok then. we can all live hand to mouth and have a luxurious extra bedroom that we dont want or need.
    she isnt affected so its unimportant
  • nannytone wrote: »
    obvious;y youfeel i just sit at home and do nothing!

    i attend work focused interviews ( when i insist on having them!)
    i have also taken part in 6 courses in the past 18 ,omyjd.

    have they got me any nearer employment?
    no they havent, but i have done everything i poosibly cant to make myself more employable.
    i am innteligent, articulate and an asset.
    so its my fault that no one has seen fit to offer me a job>

    obviously it is and i will stribe more to force myself to counteract the fact that i have no sight.

    i cant be trying hard enough can i?

    didn't see your post when I replied to TomTom - see you had it covered.:D
  • mysterywoman10
    mysterywoman10 Posts: 1,666 Forumite
    nannytone wrote: »

    as sunnyone(?) regu;arly points out. o am 'just' blinf.

    and i am. but she also isnt under the threat of having every degree of security removed,

    she isnt affected by the vuts, and clearly sees that anyone that is affected.... is only effected because they havent helped themselves!
    thats ok then. we can all live hand to mouth and have a luxurious extra bedroom that we dont want or need.
    she isnt affected so its unimportant

    I know Nanny and yes you had it covered and were defo not stalking!!
    The most wasted day is one in which we have not laughed.
  • mysterywoman10
    mysterywoman10 Posts: 1,666 Forumite
    Have you got any thoughts AB on how best to approach the appeals for disabled people in this tax?
    The most wasted day is one in which we have not laughed.
  • nannytone_2
    nannytone_2 Posts: 13,004 Forumite
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    didn't see your post when I replied to TomTom - see you had it covered.:D

    i wasnt responding to you so dont feel bad
  • Anny_2
    Anny_2 Posts: 148 Forumite
    sunnyone wrote: »
    That suits you and Krisscross but it dosnt suit all though, most disabled people have no need of a seperate bedrooms or a overnight carer thought, its a straw man argumant made by those that are totally against any benefit changes at all and who are totally unable to listen to reason.



    You say 'most disabled people have no need of a separate bedroom or a overnight carer though'. I am sure that is not just your personal opinion and you must therefore have some official figures to back this statement up. Could you post your source/sources for this statement please.
    Disabled people have become easy scapegoats in this age of austerity.

    'Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are'. (Benjamin Franklin)
  • sunnyone
    sunnyone Posts: 4,716 Forumite
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    nannytone wrote: »

    as sunnyone(?) regu;arly points out. o am 'just' blinf.

    and i am. but she also isnt under the threat of having every degree of security removed,

    she isnt affected by the vuts, and clearly sees that anyone that is affected.... is only effected because they havent helped themselves!
    thats ok then. we can all live hand to mouth and have a luxurious extra bedroom that we dont want or need.
    she isnt affected so its unimportant

    On the D&D forum Glaswejen used the "only" term to address another deaf person, jen and I have other severe disabilities as well as being deaf yet no one has pounced on that post.

    I have survived benefits cuts worth more than people are now faceing, no one posted on here to support me or the other losers then dspite me posting it on here and they never would as it didnt affect them.

    I couldnt do anything to alleviate the cuts that affected me, people affected with the new cuts can do something to help themselves.
  • sunnyone
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    I know Nanny and yes you had it covered and were defo not stalking!!

    I posted a reply to Dunroaming on this thread, you have no objectivity or you would reread the posts since my first post on this thread and your blinkers would fall away.

    Not that I expect objectivity from someone like you, you beleive that every disabled person sleeps in hospital beds :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Why the hell would all of the so called disabled people be prescribed an expensive bed via OT's?

    They wouldnt but dont let the truth cloud your single minded crusade.
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