I HATE the name of this forum - Disability and Dosh !

cheesemouse_2

Well I'm another one for whom there are definitely extra costs to being disabled.

Let's see now. I've had to buy a powerchair, and a Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle, all from my own money. And these things aren't cheap.

So as far as I'm concerned yes of course there are extra costs to being disabled. I'm actually finding it quite alarming wondering what else I might need to pay for. Oh, and eventually we'll need to change the steps outside our house to a ramp instead. Yet another cost right there.

And as for the name of this section, yes I agree it does have a sort of 'greedy' sound about it. Why not just simply call it the Disability section?

billywilly

cheesemouse wrote: »

Well I'm another one for whom there are definitely extra costs to being disabled.

Let's see now. I've had to buy a powerchair, and a Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle, all from my own money. And these things aren't cheap.

So as far as I'm concerned yes of course there are extra costs to being disabled. I'm actually finding it quite alarming wondering what else I might need to pay for. Oh, and eventually we'll need to change the steps outside our house to a ramp instead. Yet another cost right there.

And as for the name of this section, yes I agree it does have a sort of 'greedy' sound about it. Why not just simply call it the Disability section?

Your financial situation sounds exactly like the one that I have posted about in the past.
If you had the available funds from your own private resources to buy all of that equipment, then I would question as to why you should be entitled to PIP/DLA.
Why should someone in your financial position be paid the same level of financial support as someone with no savings and living on ESA or IS?
Your case actually makes the argument of means testing PIP/DLA stronger.

CTcelt1988

billywilly wrote: »

Your financial situation sounds exactly like the one that I have posted about in the past.
If you had the available funds from your own private resources to buy all of that equipment, then I would question as to why you should be entitled to PIP/DLA.
Why should someone in your financial position be paid the same level of financial support as someone with no savings and living on ESA or IS?
Your case actually makes the argument of means testing PIP/DLA stronger.

Says someone who claims to have 85k savings and applied for PIP. You wouldn't turn down PIP if it had been successful would you?

cbrown372

billywilly wrote: »

Your financial situation sounds exactly like the one that I have posted about in the past.
If you had the available funds from your own private resources to buy all of that equipment, then I would question as to why you should be entitled to PIP/DLA.
Why should someone in your financial position be paid the same level of financial support as someone with no savings and living on ESA or IS?
Your case actually makes the argument of means testing PIP/DLA stronger.

Yet you claimed enormous amounts of welfare for 19 years by your own admission, shame your thread about exactly how much was deleted :beer:

billywilly

CTcelt1988 wrote: »

Says someone who claims to have 85k savings and applied for PIP. You wouldn't turn down PIP if it had been successful would you?

Where on earth do you get that we have £85,000 in savings from? There is £85,000 in a family discretionary trust but I am not a beneficiary of that trust - only my wife and our children and grandchildren are.

billywilly

cbrown372 wrote: »

Yet you claimed enormous amounts of welfare for 19 years by your own admission, shame your thread about exactly how much was deleted :beer:

Now you have me confused even further. I worked full time for the government up until 6 months after my 60th birthday when I started to receive my Civil Service pensions. So at best that is just over 5 years ago - where do you get 19 years from?

My thread was highlighting actually how much people over 65 can get out of the welfare state if they play their cards right.. Personally I found the information offensive and it is no wonder that the proportion of the welfare budget for those over 65 exceeds 50%. The amount on offer is allbut criminal - over £700 a week!!!!!

merlin68

You said in a previous thread that you claimed esa from 2009-2014 and dla for 20 years.

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when this board was introduced some time ago a number of us weren't happy and complain but were ignored

SingleSue

billywilly wrote: »

Your financial situation sounds exactly like the one that I have posted about in the past.
If you had the available funds from your own private resources to buy all of that equipment, then I would question as to why you should be entitled to PIP/DLA.
Why should someone in your financial position be paid the same level of financial support as someone with no savings and living on ESA or IS?
Your case actually makes the argument of means testing PIP/DLA stronger.

How do you know that they didn't have to scrimp and save to get those items or got them second hand cheaper? Or had to take out finance they could ill afford but felt forced into having just to have a semblance of a normal life.

I couldn't really afford my wheelchair but I also couldn't afford (for my own health, sanity and family life) to wait until I could be assessed and get one on the NHS....I went without other things and did the bill shuffle to get a second hand one which then allowed us all to have more of a family life.

People do go without to provide the extra things for their loved ones, especially if they are disabled and it would makes things easier, just because they happen to have these things now, no-one really knows what they have had to go without to get them.

billywilly

merlin68 wrote: »

You said in a previous thread that you claimed esa from 2009-2014 and dla for 20 years.

ESA from when I was 60 in 2009, DLA from 1995 and IIDB from 1995
So?