MSE News: Disability and carer's allowance claimaints to suffer as inflation falls

wildwestfan

fed_up_and_stressed wrote: »

So you are saying that it is ok to make disparaging and hurtful comments based on someones disability status because the person receives services to help them with day to day activiities ...... Absurd !

Really have I? Doubtful as my wife has the same disease. Is it not strange though that 2 people with the same disability receive such wildly differing levels of assistance?

Why on earth are you bringing the WFA to the debate? This is a non means tested payment, available to all if they live long enough and worth £2 a week. Quite frankly being jealous of that says more about you than it does me. I am however in favour of the WFA being taxable so the government would instantly recoup £20 of my £100. but then I think all benefits should be taxable, that would include ESA, DLA, housing benefit, council tax benefit etc.

fed_up_and_stressed

wildwestfan wrote: »

As neither of us is allowed to drive then quite frankly a car would be fairly useless to us. What I was saying was that it is not age that so impairs my mobility but rheumatoid arthritis. Which incidentally I was diagnosed with whilst in my 40's. It still seems unfair to me that someone receiving mobility DLA keeps it after pension age but it is not possible to be a new applicant once 65 is reached.

We both know exactly what disability is and how it affects life.

No one has suggested that you don't know how disability affects life Wildwestfan.

Diagnosis is not the determinant of DLA / PIP claims ..need is ..so if you had claimed and been eligible for DLA under the age of 65 and continued to be then you would still be receiving it now.

fed_up_and_stressed

wildwestfan wrote: »

Really have I? Doubtful as my wife has the same disease. Is it not strange though that 2 people with the same disability receive such wildly differing levels of assistance?

Having the same disease does not mean your needs are the same.

nannytone_2

i think i ghave every right to complain when people are totally siamiaaive about the impact of visual impairment.
i have bever dismissed any disabled peoples struggles and never would.
but then i am a dair minded person who believes that every disabled person has a right to have a minimum quality of life rather than just an existance.
you speak as if people make the deliberate choice to become disabled and dependant on benefit rather than being able tyo work and earn enough to make provision for their old age
its funny, vecause the only person on this forum that i could understand having issues with the good level of support i get is Indie.
she is in a similar position and gets very little help to be ondependant at all.
and yet she is happy that i receive what is denied to her.,
to me, thats the mark of a decent, fair minded person.

y could understabd tour butterness if taking help from me, meant that you and your wife would get more.
but it doesnt.
you just dont want to see anyone getting what you consider to be 'something for nothing'
never mind the fact that i worked for the majority of my adult life ( over 30 years)

wildwestfan

fed_up_and_stressed wrote: »

Having the same disease does not mean your needs are the same.

Surely blind is blind whoever it is. So my wife's blindness is not as bad as nannytone's?

fed_up_and_stressed

wildwestfan wrote: »

Really have I? Doubtful as my wife has the same disease. Is it not strange though that 2 people with the same disability receive such wildly differing levels of assistance?

Why on earth are you bringing the WFA to the debate? This is a non means tested payment, available to all if they live long enough and worth £2 a week. Quite frankly being jealous of that says more about you than it does me. I am however in favour of the WFA being taxable so the government would instantly recoup £20 of my £100. but then I think all benefits should be taxable, that would include ESA, DLA, housing benefit, council tax benefit etc.

I'm not jealous I earn a decent wage.. My point was that DLA and PIP are also non means tested however they are assessed on NEED so jealously of DLA/PIP is the absurd thing. I pity you.

You are the one making assumptions about low income benefits such as dental costs being free for disabled people. Your comments about people "not making provisions" seems to assume disabled people don't work when a sizeable amount of us do. I work but don't begrudge disability benefits to those who can't work due to their disability.

KxMx

wwf your wife has you to act as her "eyes" and care for her.

nannytone is single and therefore does not have that. And so gets a PA funded by her local authority.

At the moment your wife does not need a funded PA because you are there for her.

I am sure if you were unable to care for her she too could apply to get a PA funded.

fed_up_and_stressed

wildwestfan wrote: »

Surely blind is blind whoever it is. So my wife's blindness is not as bad as nannytone's?

There are degrees of visual impairment as there are with most illnesses and disabilities with varying prognosis, effects. People are individual.

I would not ever say that someone with the same disease as myself would automatically be affected in the same way disease processes are individual !

wildwestfan

fed_up_and_stressed wrote: »

There are degrees of visual impairment as there are with most illnesses and disabilities with varying prognosis, effects. People are individual.

I would not ever say that someone with the same disease as myself would automatically be affected in the same way disease processes are individual !

My wife is blind i.e can't see. You appear to accept that nannytone can't see but assume my wife can. Partisan or what?

nannytone_2

i have lived with sight loss since virth.
the less sight i had, then the bigger difference any more loss made.
it is incredibly difficult to live with an impairment that is constantly changing. you adapt to the changes onlu for them to change again.
does your wife have macular degeneration? that is the most common cuse of sight loss in the elderly agter diabetes. ( doesnt make it any easier to live with though.
from the age of 12 i was totally night blind and so for all of my working life, i needed taxi's during the winter months to get me home from work.
there was no DLA at the time and so i gad to pay that as an additional expense just to keep working.
regarding my PA... you seem to think she is 'free'. but i pay 60% of my DLA yowards her cost. im more than happy to do so because that is what my DLA is for.
the rest goes towards petrol, her gym membership to accompany me ( no concessions) parking and help towards the upkeep of her car.