Please Help

FBaby

The bottom line is that you want to spend the money on fun things rather the boring things you have receive benefit for. You can justify it however you want, but you are not going to convinced anyone that your health issues means that you have a NEED for an expensive gym equipement. All the benefits you get from this you can get without spending a penny. This fact will not changed just because you wish it did.

Londonsu

shanew4874 wrote: »

I have been made redundant, receiving £13000. I have to pay legal fees of over £2000 so that brings the money the benefits can cut down to £5000?

I believe I will lose £28 per week? or is it every 2 weeks?

The grey area I am wondering about is what I can spend the money on to bring down the £28 figure? I have spent £2000 on home multigym equipment for the garage, I suffer from anxiety and depression, so will this equipment be an acceptable purchase in their eyes?

£28 per week is a big cut I feel. anyone who knows answers to the above please let me know.

Thanks.

This is why people think you are a troll or not giving the correct info for people to be able to advise you as you said this on your other thread


POLLYCAT- I have not purchased any gym equipment yet, just added up what it will cost me if I went ahead

Indie_Kid

Contributions based benefits won't be affected. You're better off getting help for your issues, rather than spending money on gym equipment and ignoring your issues.

dippy3103

O/P

No matter what your disability, you clearly are lookimg to spend your money to become entitled to a higher rate of benefits. You have the redundancy as a means to support yourself, and as it was negotiated up its plainly some kind of recompense for not having work any longer.

You plainly are intelligent (as many people with autism are. I work with a guy with a high functioning autism and he's possibky the most intelligent person I know) so get another job & then you can buy what you want. Be one of that 6% you mention.

dippy3103

Oh & autism is a learning disability not a mental disability. Mental disabkity is almost offensive

shanew4874

I would argue that the capability to learn something would stem from the brain? therefore without offending anyone I feel it could be considered a mental disability? no?

Londonsu

shanew4874 wrote: »

I would argue that the capability to learn something would stem from the brain? therefore without offending anyone I feel it could be considered a mental disability? no?

I have already posted this on this thread




According to the NHS website Autism itself is not classed as a mental illness and I quote


Autism is a serious and lifelong developmental disability. On its own, autism is not a learning disability or a mental health problem.


However, some people with autism have an accompanying learning disability, learning difficulty or mental health problem

And then asked this

If you do however have a learning difficulty or mental health problem along with your Autism one wonders how you managed to hold down a paid job long in enough to get a large redundancy payment.


So the NHS choice website is clear Autism itself is not a mental disability

sheramber

not according to the information in post 25

According to the NHS website Autism itself is not classed as a mental illness and I quote


Autism is a serious and lifelong developmental disability. On its own, autism is not a learning disability or a mental health problem.

Prinzessilein

shanew4874 wrote: »

I receive DLA and receive essa. Really do want to get back into work, but as 6% of people with autism manage to get, and more importantly keep jobs I realise it is going to be tough.

Actually, in the UK the figures are more like 15% of Adults with Autism are in full-time work and many others are in part time work.


http://www.autism.org.uk/about-autism/myths-facts-and-statistics/some-facts-and-statistics.aspx


Yes, Autism CAN limit your capacity for work - but it does not necessarily have to - as you yourself have shown in the past, you are capable of working.


Why not concentrate on how you can best find another job - instead of looking at ways of what basically amounts to defrauding the system?


It may well be that exercise will be helpful to you - but why do you need such an expensive home gym? You say that you cannot go to a conventional gym, but you could buy a bike for much less money than you have paid for the home-gym...or a second-hand exercise bike if you don't want to leave the house.....there are cheaper options available. Buying an expensive home-gym would appear to be clear Intentional Deprivation of Capital.


(I am not playing down the seriousness of Autism - I myself have Autism...I managed to work full time for some years before going part-time and then voluntary before various aspects of the condition exacerbated to the point when I can now, unfortunately, no longer work at all)

Indie_Kid

shanew4874 wrote: »

I would argue that the capability to learn something would stem from the brain? therefore without offending anyone I feel it could be considered a mental disability? no?

Mental disabilities don't cause a serious lack of verbal and non-verbal understanding. That for me, alongside the inability to deal with large groups of people, is the main problem I have with my Autism.

Autism is to do with the brain develops. Things like depression, which is a mental illness, aren't. Many people with Autism will have a mental illness alongside.

You can spend the money however you wish. But DWP may consider it as deprivation of capital and may treat you as having the money. (notional capital)