Baby steps to mortgage freedom for beanielou.

beanielou

Finally starting to feel very slightly more human.
Going for lunch with my maw & a friend.

beanielou

I will relate my latest benefit saga later!!

savingholmes

Enjoy your meal 

Sunshine_girl2

Hope you had a lovely lunch. 

beanielou

Lovely lunch thanks 

jwil

EssexHebridean said:

Just catching up on your diary Beanie - sorry to hear you've been feeling so grim - hopefully the new anti-b's are now doing the trick and you're getting over it. I have to confess I'm genuinely starting to wonder if there are some new strains of C-19 doing the rounds that the older LFT's don't pick up on. There seems to be a LOT of folk with very covid-like symptoms but negative tests...

On the energy thing, remember that the "average" or "typical" figure might well be a red herring - work out what YOU use in a year and then do your sums from that - a single person living in a small property might well use far less than the typical household - or indeed have a totally different make-up of fuel used - we're approaching twice the average for electricity, but a fraction (literally a fraction - around about 1/45th!) of the average for gas, so the "typical" figures would be a nonsense for us. I understand why the media use them, but it can be terribly misleading for the majority of people! 

My friend who works for the NHS said they were told to stop using the old LFTs and order some new ones a month or two ago.  She said the old ones don't work very well with the new strains of Covid so there could very well be some false negatives.

We're less than the 'average' figure for both electric and gas as well and we are a family of 4, who are not wasteful, but equally not scared to use heating and appliances if we feel the need, so it varies massively depending on the make up of the house and what people's needs are.

beanielou

Benefit saga part 5001 or so it seems!
Notified DLA of a change of circumstances about 3 weeks ago.
This should have prompted a benefit change for the new Scottish adult disability payment.
Letter received.
I was advised it would be PIP.
Ok.
Phones PIP to start new application.
They cant take it as Scottish post code.
Told to apply for ADP.
Phone them.
No cant make claim as currently on DLA.
Need to speak to DLA team.
Phone DLA who are sure it should be PIP.
I am getting more & more stressed as if I dont apply for something the DLA will stop!!!

Eventually get a call back from someone to say they now have a workaround & can start a claim.
I am mentally exhausted.
The joys of being a scrounger~~not!!!

jwil

beanielou said:

Benefit saga part 5001 or so it seems!
Notified DLA of a change of circumstances about 3 weeks ago.
This should have prompted a benefit change for the new Scottish adult disability payment.
Letter received.
I was advised it would be PIP.
Ok.
Phones PIP to start new application.
They cant take it as Scottish post code.
Told to apply for ADP.
Phone them.
No cant make claim as currently on DLA.
Need to speak to DLA team.
Phone DLA who are sure it should be PIP.
I am getting more & more stressed as if I dont apply for something the DLA will stop!!!

Eventually get a call back from someone to say they now have a workaround & can start a claim.
I am mentally exhausted.
The joys of being a scrounger~~not!!!

That is absolutely disgusting, it's just so unfair that people have to jump through so many hoops and it's not just one simple contact.

I hope the claim finally goes through quickly.

You are never a scrounger!! 

beanielou

Thanks jwil 

savingholmes

Hope it goes through smoothly from here on out. 

I think my fear with energy is we used above average before - and while we've tried to make cut backs not sure if they'll be enough and don't know what winter will be like.