dla and tax credits

mitchaa

Just some figures for the O.P...

CTC

£545 family element
3 x £2085 children elements
2 x £2540 disabled elements
2 x £1020 severely disabled elements

Total CTC = £13,920pa

Carers allowance - £50.55 x52 =£2,629pa

Child benefit - £43.90x52 =£2,283pa

DLA High Care - £67x2x52 = £6,968pa

Total amount of benefits entitled to =£25,800pa or £2,150pm

Not sure if you receive other benefits? Housing/CT? If your hubby works and brings in an income etc? But i would imagine there being quite a big difference with this award that your boys have just been given.

All the best and i wish them a speedy recovery

mitchaa

dmg24 wrote: »

Eczema can be a very severe condition, and can require hospitalisation. It can require the body to be covered in soaked bandages, which will require changing several times a day, and through the night.

To put it into perspective, imagine that your skin is constantly stinging and itchy. Then when you try to touch your skin, it starts bleeding. Over time, this also becomes infected. This covers your whole body.

Not severe?

Having a brother in law with severe MD, ie 100% wheelchair bound and a life expectancy of only 21, no i would not class eczema as a severe disability.

Im sure the kids can still run around, play about and have fun and fingers crossed for them, they will grow out of it and get better in the future. Yes eczema is a disability, but a severe one??

Its not in the same league as MD/DS etc.

IMO anyway, im not of a medical profession.

dmg24

mitchaa wrote: »

Having a brother in law with severe MD, ie 100% wheelchair bound and a life expectancy of only 21, no i would not class eczema as a severe disability.

Im sure the kids can still run around, play about and have fun and fingers crossed for them, they will grow out of it and get better in the future. Yes eczema is a disability, but a severe one??

Its not in the same league as MD/DS etc.

IMO anyway, im not of a medical profession.

Absolutely, you are not a medical professional.

DWP Decision Makers have taken advice from medical professionals, and have deemed it to be a severe disability.

I'm sure that the OP knows that it really doesn't matter what you think about her children, who you don't even know. :rolleyes:

mitchaa

Nice friendly reply there as usual DMG:rolleyes:

It has not been ascertained if the boys are receiving the severe premium, that was my question, and so far no-one has answered. (Well not clearly)

What i think about her children? !!!!!! is that supposed to mean:mad: Do you just go round picking fights DMG?

Ive already told the O.P i wish her children all the best and a speedy recovery.

dmg24

mitchaa wrote: »

Nice friendly reply there as usual DMG:rolleyes:

It has not been ascertained if the boys are receiving the severe premium, that was my question, and so far no-one has answered. (Well not clearly)

What i think about her children? !!!!!! is that supposed to mean:mad: Do you just go round picking fights DMG?

Ive already told the O.P i wish her children all the best and a speedy recovery.

lil_me wrote: »

Higher rate mobility (care) qualifies for the severely disabled child premium. I think it's something like £65 more a week.....so of course that will be x2. If you are not working you will only be better off by £27.15 per week but it's still worth applying for Carers Allowance they also pay your NI contributions for your pension.

You clearly knew that lil_me meant to say DLA rather than mobility, as the question has been answered many times on other posts. You are just being pedantic as ever.

I don't go round picking fights, I am just sick of you picking on people when they are in need.

mitchaa

dmg24 wrote: »

You clearly knew that lil_me meant to say DLA rather than mobility, as the question has been answered many times on other posts. You are just being pedantic as ever.

I don't go round picking fights, I am just sick of you picking on people when they are in need.

Lets get in another fight and ruin a perfectly good natured thread then DMG?

What the hell is wrong with you?

No, i did not know what lil_me meant, it was not clear hence why i asked her for clarification.

Me picking on people? No, i am trying to help the O.P get what she is entitled to

i.e the purpose of this board;)

Did you see the informative calculations that i bothered to calculate for her??

If i wasn't trying to help, why would i have bothered wasting my time calculating these figures for her?

You need help DMG, preferably anger management:rotfl: Tell you what, go back to your bed and get out the other side:p

This thread was perfectly good natured until you came along and stuck your nose in.

You provoke DMG, you need to learn to control yourself;)

fizzel81

thank you for all the words of advice etc

tbh i never thought of contact ss but then again not sure i want to not saying having contact with them is bad, its just the negativity around the people i know have contact with them (does this make sense)

thank you on the idea of the steam cleaner, i will be looking into one over the carpet cleaner as i know some can have floor attachements its something ive never thoght of (and steam is better than water) whilst im waiting on landlady and flooring (the damp issue with house needs sorting first)

thank you for the figures, im not one for knowing where and how to find anything sucha as that put i didnt even know how to claim is when they boys dad my ex husband went (that took me 3 weeks to ring job centre to ask)

dmg24 you described about eczema better than i can and ive been living with it as such since ds2 was 6ish months so 2006 and then ds3 having it yet im still very bad at wording it, i just do what needs to be done and whats suggested by pead dermatologist, my little boy ds2 caught a rare virus in his eczema last year, 5 days in hospital on iv antibitiocs and fluid drips, anti virus medicine and then antibiotics and anti virual for 2 weeks at home, he has since had the same virus twice more but thankfully with it not being first time its not so bad if caught early enough to treat at home, theres is servere and the worst thing they dont oftern get much of a break from itching (night, and quite time seems to be the worst) giving them lots to do keep them busy enough to break some of the time that would otherwise be spent scratching

but yes i do also agree with whats been said about it not being a servere disablity but it can be a servere condition, and it takes alot of work to look after them so yes i can see what you are trying to say (i have a brother with DS)

and just to clear up dla wrote to the boys consultants (they both had a different one at time of applying, ds2 was still under a hampshire hospital) and ds3 was a new patient at a kent hospital with the dr's after i moved taking there skin alot more seriously than the dr's before i moved (army dr's used to dealing with men) last year i was buying alot of what they needed myself as i had no idea about dla etc

becky004

mitchaa wrote: »

No disrespect to your children O.P, but i would have thought severely disabled would have been defined as something a lot more serious than bad eczema, ie Possibly down syndrome, muscular dystrophy etc? I say that because of the use of the word ''severely''

Thanks

My DS gets higher rate care, and low mobility. Because of this we also get the full CTC extra payment. If you passed my DS in the street (on a good day),he would appear to be completely "normal" (whatever normal is), but you're not the one that has to carry him everywhere when he has a meltdown and refuses to walk, or has to stop him attacking people in Tesco, or being abusive to them in the street for no apparent reason. You are not the one that is up all night because his body just doesn't need sleep, or walking around the house with a plate of food encouraging him to eat because he is losing weight, or swapping food from one plate to another because it is the wrong colour plate for that particular day. Or taking 40 minutes to put a pair of shoes on because the seams on his socks aren't in the right place. He has ADHD and autistic traits (though he is not autistic), diagnosed 3 months ago at the age of 4.
DLA is not ONLY about the disability itself, it is about the amount of care and supervision they need. Eczema they may grow out of, you are right on that score, but at the moment they are 2 little boys who spend most of every day in pain, and that as far as I am concerned is a severe disability.
Oh and just for the record, I work full time as well as having this more than full time job at home.

donnalove

mitchaa wrote: »

I think you have the wrong end of the stick with my post, i am well aware the children need high rate care due to the night time care that they need.

That wasn't my question though.

There is an additional severely disabled premium in CTC, the way i read lil_me's post is that high rate care would qualify that person/persons to the severely disabled premium?

That was my question. I then asked about the use of the word ''severely''. Eczema is obviously not a severe disability, the way DS and MD are so im not sure if eczema would qualify for that, hence the question.

no i understand what you are trying to say about the severe dissability with the difference in conditions indicated. But i was trying to point out its the care needs of the person not the condition itself, now these little boys because they have severe eczema need constant 24 hour care which like your brother-in-law with md needs 24 hr care there is no differential (to the dla) about the amount of care needed.
Maybe the government should change the wording but as far as i can see, it is a severe dissabling condition.

hope you understand that
x

mandy.h_2

fizzle81

if u get high rate care u automatically get severe part od ctc
u should have got low rate mobility as your sons are in pain when they walk u qualify if walking causes severe pain or discomfort and having seen severe excma i would think they do have pain

i get high rate care for my son who looks perfectly healthy however he has aspergers and his mental capacity is very low, i gave over justifying my claim to others and just asked did they want to look after him for a day if they thought it was so easy

i would also apply to www.familyfund.org.uk they give grants for bedding, furniture etc or even a holidy anything to make tour child and your life easier