New baby for 40% tax payer: Any support?

StormyWeather_2

DLA isn't means tested.

Georgiegirl256

mazza111 wrote: »

DLA. Winter fuel payments. And they used to get CB as stated above

Even millionaires can claim DLA? Is it not means tested?

Georgiegirl256

StormyWeather wrote: »

DLA isn't means tested.

Posted same time Thanks for answering my question before I'd even posted lol! :rotfl:

nannytone_2

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

What benefit is that? One that even millionaires can claim? Surely there's something wrong with the system, if people who are well off can claim a handout? Just curious that's all!

disability living allowance and attendance allowance.
they are paid to help meet the additional costs of disability/long term illness.
it does seem wrong that millionaires can claim it, but what is the alternative?
if they are means tested, someone just above the threshold would be denied and it may only be the disability benefit they receive that enables them to continue working

nannytone_2

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Ah of course! Just the way it was worded, made it sound like something else, I guess I thought that because I thought nannytones kids were adult now?

i wasnt referring to child benefit. i havent received it for so many years that i had forgotten that until this year, anyone could claim it.
i'd also forgotten the winter fuel allowance as i'm 'far' too young for that too

JencParker

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Even millionaires can claim DLA? Is it not means tested?

Wasn't there a man who won millions on the lottery and continued to claim DLA?

Ah of course! Just the way it was worded, made it sound like something else, I
guess I thought that because I thought nannytones kids were adult now?

I wasn't referring to nannytone - just saying that is was (until this year) a benefit that could be claimed by anyone, however rich.

nannytone_2

JencParker wrote: »

Wasn't there a man who won millions on the lottery and continued to claim DLA?

there probably was. david cameron and his wife claimed it for their eldest son. they have plenty of money, but their son was entitled under the rules.

i think the amount of wealthy people that are prepared to jump through the DLA hoops are few and far between though.

shirlgirl2004

I haven't found DLA has many hoops and ESA can also be claimed by millionaires which can also be easy to claim. I found both easy and painless to claim on behalf of someone with what most would consider huge assets and before anyone asks why I claimed the answer is I was told I had to by the Court Of Protection. It's wrong, the individual doesn't need the money and yet is forced to claim it. Madness!

paulineb_2

FlashBarry wrote: »

You make me so angry, read the thread again.

I dont EXPECT any benefits. I was just asking if anything might be available.

If I had my way, there would be NO benefits. Some people, especially with bad attitudes to those that pay in, should be completely stripped of taking any of the money.

I'm so pleased the Government is trying to reduce the amout of benefits paid to those types of people. Make hay while the money is rolling in nannytone - with any luck, it might not be forever.

As someone else mentioned, you seem capable of typing a lot on here. You could get a job somewhere - perhaos a call centre. ~However, this would mean having to get out of bed and doing something with your life.

No, probably best to stay on benefits, right? :mad:

If you had your way there would be no benefits? Seriously? But you'll take child benefit which is a benefit that was paid to millionaires until recently. And you have every right to take it, but while you are happy to take from the system, why knock others for doing so. We cant compare the circumstances of someone who is on DLA or other related benefits to someone who works full time, every single case is different.

I dont agree with the pounding youve taken on this thread, but seriously does everything need to end up in benefit bashing?

Ive also paid into the system for over 20 years when I worked full time, but when I lost my job 4 years ago and ended up on JSA, without that and housing benefit Id have been homeless. Seriously. The percentage of peoples taxes that goes to working age benefits is miniscule. Ive also been in jobs where I was worse off than being on the dole due to low hours and low wages. Its absolutely fair comment that some people need to claim working tax credits because their wages are so low. I couldnt, because I couldnt get enough hours, but I know people who do.

And if someone had said to you in the first instance, yes you can claim WTC and other benefits, Im sure you would have happily claimed them, yet you now say if you had your way there would be no benefits?

One of my relatives paid council tax and rent all her life. She had a small works pension from her husbands ex employer and a state pension and that meant she had to pay full rent, full council tax, she got a bus pass and that was it. And she didnt live her life thinking she was entitled to anything, she just got on with it. After she became ill and ended up in hospital she was able to claim attendance allowance and then eventually pension credit and for the last 2 years of her life got her rent and most of her council tax paid. And Im very glad she did, she paid enough into the system all her life.

Benefits should be a safety net for people and yes some people get more. But its the system that makes it that way. How do you measure someones attitude?

You strip people of any benefit and housing benefit and make them potentially homeless just because they happen to disagree with something a taxpayer says? Seriously, I wish you all the best with your new arrival, but why not just get on with enjoying that, rather than spend time disliking faceless people who you'll never meet just because they disagree with you and happen to claim benefit?

Well Id just like to say given that we have been in or teetering on the brink of a recession for some time, if you lost your job, I wouldnt give a flying hoot whether I liked you, disagreed with you or cared anything about you, if getting JSA saved you and your family from going under, you should be entitled to it.

And if you are happy that the Government are reducing benefits to some people fair enough, because Housing Benefit does need to be capped, but some people really are in hardship due to some changes in housing benefit legislation. And I personally wouldnt wish that on anyone, because it could be any single one of us.

Because you started this thread asking if there were anything that could be paid to you. And yes, I bet its galling that some people sit on benefit and get the equivalent of a very high salary, but thats some people, not all people.

Poppie68

paulineb wrote: »

If you had your way there would be no benefits? Seriously? But you'll take child benefit which is a benefit that was paid to millionaires until recently. And you have every right to take it, but while you are happy to take from the system, why knock others for doing so. We cant compare the circumstances of someone who is on DLA or other related benefits to someone who works full time, every single case is different.

I dont agree with the pounding youve taken on this thread, but seriously does everything need to end up in benefit bashing?

Ive also paid into the system for over 20 years when I worked full time, but when I lost my job 4 years ago and ended up on JSA, without that and housing benefit Id have been homeless. Seriously. The percentage of peoples taxes that goes to working age benefits is miniscule. Ive also been in jobs where I was worse off than being on the dole due to low hours and low wages. Its absolutely fair comment that some people need to claim working tax credits because their wages are so low. I couldnt, because I couldnt get enough hours, but I know people who do.

And if someone had said to you in the first instance, yes you can claim WTC and other benefits, Im sure you would have happily claimed them, yet you now say if you had your way there would be no benefits?

One of my relatives paid council tax and rent all her life. She had a small works pension from her husbands ex employer and a state pension and that meant she had to pay full rent, full council tax, she got a bus pass and that was it. And she didnt live her life thinking she was entitled to anything, she just got on with it. After she became ill and ended up in hospital she was able to claim attendance allowance and then eventually pension credit and for the last 2 years of her life got her rent and most of her council tax paid. And Im very glad she did, she paid enough into the system all her life.

Benefits should be a safety net for people and yes some people get more. But its the system that makes it that way. How do you measure someones attitude?

You strip people of any benefit and housing benefit and make them potentially homeless just because they happen to disagree with something a taxpayer says? Seriously, I wish you all the best with your new arrival, but why not just get on with enjoying that, rather than spend time disliking faceless people who you'll never meet just because they disagree with you and happen to claim benefit?

Well Id just like to say given that we have been in or teetering on the brink of a recession for some time, if you lost your job, I wouldnt give a flying hoot whether I liked you, disagreed with you or cared anything about you, if getting JSA saved you and your family from going under, you should be entitled to it.

And if you are happy that the Government are reducing benefits to some people fair enough, because Housing Benefit does need to be capped, but some people really are in hardship due to some changes in housing benefit legislation. And I personally wouldnt wish that on anyone, because it could be any single one of us.

Because you started this thread asking if there were anything that could be paid to you. And yes, I bet its galling that some people sit on benefit and get the equivalent of a very high salary, but thats some people, not all people.

Well someone's been on the caffiene! :T