DLA for child - none financial benefits.

Indie_Kid

You're very much mistaken. DLA means I can buy the equipment I need, which means I don't have to rely on my parents having to read my private mail to me.

tinkledom

nannytone wrote: »

os if i didnt claim benefit i might regain my sight?
is that what he means?

No, but claiming benefits won't bring it back either!

tinkledom

Indie_Kid wrote: »

You're very much mistaken. DLA means I can buy the equipment I need, which means I don't have to rely on my parents having to read my private mail to me.

So you spend every penny of every weeks payment on buying equipment?


Then what is so different to the times pre 1992 (when DLA first came out) than now? People managed to buy what they needed out of their own resources without recourse to any benefits.

nannytone_2

youre right, receiving benefit doesnt bring my sight back.
but it enables me to live independantly and have some quality of life. nothing extravagent ... just doing my own food shopping and gardening... things that a non disabled person wouldnt even have to consider.

see,s yto me that you have adapted your home to suit you wifes meeds has been accomplished through the receipt of benefit.
or do you think it shoulod be one rule for you and another for everyone else?

btw... speaking software for the PC costs £800 including VAT.
hardly pocket money prices

Indie_Kid

nannytone wrote: »

btw... speaking software for the PC costs £800 including VAT.
hardly pocket money prices

You shouldn't pay VAT because the item is for the use of a disabled person and has been adapted for them.

nannytone_2

i bought it through the RNIB and VAT is charged because it isnt used exclusively by the blind

cattermole

Indie is right you can sign a VAT exemption form and not pay it.

cattermole

nannytone wrote: »

i bought it through the RNIB and VAT is charged because it isnt used exclusively by the blind

I can't believe the RNIB don't even get me started on them. You can still sign an exemption form regardless of whether it is exclusively just for the blind or any other disability if it is specifically for the disabled.

nannytone_2

i actually specifically asked!

i admit, i dont rate the RNIB too much either.
even through their own shop, they try to charge ridiculous amounts

tinkledom

nannytone wrote: »

see,s yto me that you have adapted your home to suit you wifes meeds has been accomplished through the receipt of benefit.

What on 80 quid a week??


The conversion of the property and the importation/fitting of the adaptions actually cost 10's of thousands of pounds - our own money that had nothing to do with any benefits. The servicing costs alone amount to over £600 a year!!