WASPI Campaign .... State Pensions

Pollycat

Merrydance
I think granting of AA will hinge on how you answered the questions.

merrydance

Pension Tech, yes I agree with everything you say. No I cannot claim any benefits for ill health. I am waiting on a date for a major operation, which will see me off work for 8/10 weeks. Luckily I will get sick pay as I have been in my job for 18 years. As stated in previous posts my husband may be able to claim Attendance Allowance and I may be able to claim carers allowance. Not sure only found out about it yesterday. A thought has just occurred to me though, if I am recovering from an operation will I be deemed as fit enough to care for him? Polly cat do what questions? Haven't got the forms yet.

jamesd

merrydance wrote: »

I am waiting on a date for a major operation, which will see me off work for 8/10 weeks. ... if I am recovering from an operation will I be deemed as fit enough to care for him?

[STRIKE]Also worth wondering whether you might be eligible for AA during those weeks.[/STRIKE]

merrydance

I think it's my husband that gets AA, not me?

Jackieboy

jamesd wrote: »

Also worth wondering whether you might be eligible for AA during those weeks.

The OP is below pension age.

Pollycat

merrydance wrote: »

Polly cat do what questions? Haven't got the forms yet.

Sorry, when you said you'd applied yesterday, I assumed you meant you'd completed the forms not just requested them.

As Jackieboy says, it's not a quick process and a lot of it is down to how you word your answers and examples.
It was a toss up whether I wanted to lie down in a darkened room or to have a stiff G&T when I'd finished my Mum's application.

I think they (DWP) requested a report from my Mum's GP.

As has already been said, it's about care needs not specific illnesses.

You'll understand more when the forms arrive.

My Mum's application for AA was rejected but our appeal was sucessful.

You can't get Carer's Allowance unless your husband is granted one of these benefits:

• Personal Independence Payment - daily living component
• Disability Living Allowance - the middle or highest care rate
• Attendance Allowance
• Constant Attendance Allowance at or above the normal maximum rate with an Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
• Constant Attendance Allowance at the basic (full day) rate with a War Disablement Pension
• Armed Forces Independence Payment

Pollycat

Jackieboy wrote: »

The OP is below pension age.

Yes, and AA is only payable if you're over 65.

Looking at GOV.uk, it seems to say that you can't claim DLA if you're over 16

3. Eligibility You can only make a new DLA claim if you’re under 16.

So maybe PIP?

1. Overview Personal Independence Payment (PIP) helps with some of the extra costs caused by long-term ill-health or a disability if you’re aged 16 to 64.

I don't know if you can be granted PIP if your care needs are relatively short term (8-10 weeks).

mumps

Pollycat wrote: »

If WASPI had concentrated on the later change instead of banging on about what happened in 1995, I think they would have had a lot more support and may even have got somewhere with their campaign.

As it is, they were more GRASPI than WASPI and couldn't even agree on what they actually wanted.

Yes they have made alot of people unsympathetic to people who have genuine reasons for complaining about the later change.

mumps

Jackieboy wrote: »

That's if anybody would give someone in their mid 60s a job for 18 months!

I suppose it varies, I had only been retired for two months and got offered two jobs, I suppose I was early 60s but I wasn't even looking. I've started an internet business which takes me a few minutes a day and has made me a few grand in the last six months. Funnily enough I was looking at jobs today, I don't know why really I have my consultancy work, volunteering and my little business, caring for DH and the grandchildren after school. I think I must have too much energy.

mumps

Malthusian wrote: »

Then they should stop feeling and start thinking. If they choose not to, it's a free country.

The changes to women's State Pension age are an excellent illustration to the young (including me) of why it is important to save for your retirement. The State giveth and the State taketh away again. Blessed be the name of the State. The more you save for yourself, the less it will affect you if the State Pension is taken away to some degree.

I do not take the extreme position of some who assume that there will be no State Pension when they retire. But it is a mathematical fact that the more you have in your own name, the less pain you will feel if government benefits are reduced, delayed or otherwise messed around.

The government changing the rules at the last minute does not discourage people from planning for retirement, it does entirely the opposite.

Good luck, after a career in HR and trying to persuade people that joining the pension scheme is a great idea because the boss contributes and so does the taxman I don't rate your chances.

Your might feel the changes don't discourage people from planning and of course it shouldn't but my experience is that it does.