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Advice on applying for benefits (successfully !)
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If you have no savings, investments and your wife only has an occasional small income do you not claim other benefits?0
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A.D._Creighton wrote: »I was unaware that I should be contacting the DWP and thank you for that information. I get too breathless to speak on the telephone for more than a minute and so will need to contact them via some other medium.
We were also looking at other forms of State Benefit, hence the thought to contact our local Social Services department.
I take your point regarding accents but feel that you have a rather utopian (but noble) viewpoint if you sincerely believe that to be true.
How we look, dress and speak should also not influence a Jury in a Court of Law but research suggests otherwise. A great deal of additional social research also supports this viewpoint. What Oliver Wendell Holmes referred to as "the inarticulate major premise".
Therefore, in respect of this, I beg to differ.
Nevertheless, a very sincere thank you for advising me regarding the correct agency from which to seek the Personal Independence Payment.
Arthur
Social Services are only appropriate if you or your wife are seen as vulnerable adults, they are not a benefit sourcing or advisory service. If you need advice you wwould need to enlist the help of CAB.0 -
A common theme with people who are refused medical related benefits following assessment is that they have put the emphasis on their good days and played down their bad. What you need to do is give a balanced account of your condition. If you have a lot of bad days, and just a few good, make sure you state that when making the claim and if you talk to an assessor.
If you make an application by phone, you can say that you want your wife to take over and answer the questions because you become breathless very quickly. You will have to answer some initial questions to confirm your identity but your wife can take over after that.0 -
If you have no savings, investments and your wife only has an occasional small income do you not claim other benefits?
To answer your question - "No".
We have little or no idea as to what (if any) benefits we may be entitled.
I did attend the Citizen's Advice Bureau shortly after my last unsuccessful attempt at claiming in June 2009. At that time my wife was employed.
I can only describe my visit to the C.A.B as an encounter with two characters plucked directly from BBC 2's "League of Gentlemen" and "Little Britain" (Pauline & "Computer says 'no' ").
However, I suspect this experience (for it was certainly that !), has more to do with where we reside, than the standard practice of the C.A.B.
My wife is not working at present (although ever hopeful), so we were primarily seeking a broad overview of any entitlements.
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A common theme with people who are refused medical related benefits following assessment is that they have put the emphasis on their good days and played down their bad. What you need to do is give a balanced account of your condition. If you have a lot of bad days, and just a few good, make sure you state that when making the claim and if you talk to an assessor.
If you make an application by phone, you can say that you want your wife to take over and answer the questions because you become breathless very quickly. You will have to answer some initial questions to confirm your identity but your wife can take over after that.
I did not know that they would allow my wife to do that so "Thank You".
Greatly appreciated.
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A.D._Creighton wrote: »My wife is not working at present (although ever hopeful), so we were primarily seeking a broad overview of any entitlements.
Why isn't she claiming JSA?0 -
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A.D._Creighton wrote: »Arthur
Arthur? - already beginning to look like Andy.0 -
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A.D._Creighton wrote: »To answer your question - "No".
We have little or no idea as to what (if any) benefits we may be entitled.
I did attend the Citizen's Advice Bureau shortly after my last unsuccessful attempt at claiming in June 2009. At that time my wife was employed.
I can only describe my visit to the C.A.B as an encounter with two characters plucked directly from BBC 2's "League of Gentlemen" and "Little Britain" (Pauline & "Computer says 'no' ").
However, I suspect this experience (for it was certainly that !), has more to do with where we reside, than the standard practice of the C.A.B.
My wife is not working at present (although ever hopeful), so we were primarily seeking a broad overview of any entitlements.
Arthur
Where you reside?
I could see you point if you live under the arches, otherwise why is it a problem?0
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