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LWCRA - am I entitled to free glasses and eye test?
thanks for reading. I’m finding it difficult to understand the NHS page re. Funding and eye vouchers for those claiming benefits. I get the basic universal credit allowance plus the LWCRA rate on top amounting to £808 each months. I’m really overdue an eye exam and haven’t been in 3 years due to my mental health condition…
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Hi, my name is Mariech28! Will taking an amount out of my pension affect my benefits?
hiya, I’m on income related esa and in a support group I have a pension that matures in august as I reach 60. It was an opt out pension back in the late 80’s/ early 90’s which retirement age was 60. I’m on the understanding if I take the full amount will affect my benefit ,It isn’t for a large amount so I’m wondering if I…
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Hi, my name is jmelbar! Could I claim for LCWRA? Can I get 30 hours free childcare if on PIP?
Hi, I wonder if anyone is able to help with this query? I’m married and have been on SSP for due to having MS for the last 6 months but this is due to end . I am married and my partner works full time. Am I able to claim LCWA? I am also in receipt of PIP which I know isn’t means tested. I also want to know if I can claim…
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Almost can't help laughing
At least the focus is for the mo off PIP. All the little journos can now drivel equally without much relevance to fact about pension credit, the WFP, pensioner poverty or alternatively pensioner wealth. It doesn't take Einstein to work out that pensioners are everyone, all the people who were the very poorest, all the…
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Benefits change in circumstances
Hi everyone I'm just looking for some benefits advice if anyone can help. Basically I separated from my husband in 2014 I moved out not long afterwards but due to health reasons I had to move back in to the family home in 2017, I'm no longer allowed to live alone due to ongoing health issues so my ex said I could stay in…
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Here we go again
pick on the sick when there is x amount of fit abled bodies out there https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/crazy-welfare-system-needs-reform-labour-adviser-warns-government/
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UC and 17 yr old with EHCP
Hello my son is 17 and has complex needs. He is not in education because the LA has not yet provided him with suitable provision for the coming year. (He has EHCP). As I have to care for him full time UC is our only income. UC has written to me to say UC will stop if he's not in full time provision by September. Any idea…
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Hi, my name is Donna_07111980!
Please can someone advise us. My friend is 58 years old. He claims ESA contribution based and receives a top up of UC. He is receiving enhanced daily living & enhanced mobility. He doesn’t currently claim housing cost as I’m allowing him to stay with me. He is just about to collect the keys to his new social housing. We…
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What can I earn while on benefits?
This discussion was created from comments split from: Welfare : The full picture..
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Is Anyone Else Freaking Out About What Reeves Will Do To Us?
Apparently she needs to make “difficult decisions” on welfare.
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help with money management, health and social care, care act 2014, direct payments etc
I have multi-morbid chronic health issues and long term mental health issues and cognitive issues and I am struggle to manage 'understanding' of this new world totally relying on benefits and needing adult social care. I am almost 60 and on top of everything else have just run out of hope and resilience to cope with it…
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Hi, my name is Zoe4231!
Hi, im Looking for some advice, I'm am currently receiving old style works support group esa and Low rate care and mobility PIP. I have a two bed flat and live alone. My 27 year old son and his girlfriend who have a joint claim for univeral credit have become homeless and are currently sleeping in the car as the local…
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So labour won by a landslide - what happens next? (Both in general & disabled ppl perspective)
I will write an in-depth personal analysis of the election (as the ‘footnotes’ looks very different than what’s on the ‘front cover’ - ie the result is more complex than it looks on the surface……which I got to say I didn’t see coming) but I’m shattered from staying up all night and I want to relook at some of the details…
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Hi, my name is GrievingMum! DWP GB SCIS LP FUNDI can anyone explain what this payment is?
DWP GB SCIS LP FUNDI can anyone explain what this payment is?
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Hi, my name is tiffanyann1912! Struggling to get DLA for partially sighted son.
hello my names Tiffany my son is partially sighted and I’m really struggling to get dla as there saying he doesn’t need higher care then other peers his 7 and these people don’t know him they just tick boxes I have applied 4 times and being refused when I know his intitle to it
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Got a budgeting advance. I want to pay this off early so I can get another. Has anyone done this?
Hi all I have already got a budgeting advance on my universal credit, I've £135 left to pay off it then its finished, I'm wanting to pay this off early as I'm wanting another one petty much straight after, just wondering if anyone has done this before and got one. My circumstances haven't changed since I got the last one.…
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MM Judgement.
Hello everyone I'm just curious how many people out there even know what this is. and also how many people have been affected by this. Has anybody on this site actually received the money owed to them by the DWP??? I have been affected by the judgement and I am still awaiting a payout.
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ECHR
Nigel frage however say his name is asking for referendum to leave The ECHR coming from angle will stop the boats what does this mean for disabled community
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Is my foreign diagnosis for ADHD valid in the UK? Also, should I get a private diagnosis locally?
I've got a foreign diagnosis for ADHD and I've got proof of it. I've been told it's useless when it comes to collecting benefits but, I've still used to collect benefits alongside other information such as sick notes; this makes it difficult for me to know if it was actually helpful in getting my benefits. I just want to…
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Blue Print Welfare Reforms
Blueprint for fundamental welfare reform for ‘getting people back into work’ | Disability Rights UK
