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Advice about eviction
Hi all,I'm hoping for some advice on behalf of my sister.She is renting from a private landlord who is now selling the property. She had a court hearing a week or so ago and they were given until May 10th to vacate the home. So far,local authorities have failed to find them somewhere else to live and things have just got…
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NHS Wheelchair scheme
Hi I am new here and hoping for some advice. I am a long-term wheelchair user, my last 3 chairs from the NHS have been... Kuschell K4 Quickie Argon Quickie Argon 2 with Jay 3 back, Jay easy visco cushion and push handles I've had my current Argon for 7 years and am just about to replace it. The NHS have given me a voucher…
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Help towards getting on the council registar
Hi all I'm new to your site, and very unsure who and how to ask for some help. I find it hard to ask for the above but life changes had made it difficult to stay in the situation I'm in. I'm classed as disabled and get high pip, UC, plus high mobility. I am 64yr single and rent privately. I have absolutely no ideal how to…
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Social housing & white goods
All I would like to thank everyone that has helped me with advice on this platform 👏👏 The good news is I have been offered a 1 bed bungalow going to view tomorrow, has to be 100% better than temporary accommodation. The not so good news is I was informed yesterday 27th March & I will view tomorrow 29th the housing…
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Recieving PIP , student and Bedroom tax?
Hi I am currently living in temporary accommodation. However the council has found me a council flat for me and my cousin to live in. The tennancy will be Soley on my name and not my cousins However he is a full time student, aged 19. I am receiving universal credit, Limited Capability for wok work and daily living…
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Hiring my son for daughter's Personal Assistant. (PA)
Hi Is it legal to hire family members to be PA for my adult daughter. No-one wants the job and it requires lots of intimate and exhausting care... My son is (about to be 18) looking for a part time job and I would like to hire him and pay him from my daughters Care package (direct payments) granted by the council and so…
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Struggling With Private Landlord & Repairs
Ok so I suffer with ADHD and autism (Undiagnosed autism, awaiting diagnosis). Last November was bittersweet. I won my PIP Tribunal and in the same week I received an eviction notice as my landlord of 10 years wanted to sell the place. Eventually I found a place in January 6th 2023. It's a studio flat so is a lot smaller…
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Temporary accommodation and bidding for a 1 bedroom
Hi all, I have a bit of bother to do with my temporary accommodation and bidding for a 1 bedroom flat. I am waiting for my new support worker to start but I need help ASAP about bidding verses direct offer and so on. Can anyone who understands te process explain it please
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Planning Permission Exceptional Circumstances mental health
Hello, has anyone has success with planning via exceptional circumstances? We are trying to extend our home to allow me to have an en-suite bathroom upstairs to be away from the rest of my family in peace and ground floor a work from home space where I hopefully start working again. I suffer extreme depression, anxiety and…
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Repairing Quingo vitess 2 cam?
Hi I have a quingo vitess 2 and the q cam screen that comes with it has got wet through condensation under storage cover. It's dried out a bit but the screen either doesn't come, flickers or its so faint I can't see picture clearly. A new one I am told cost £169., which I cant afford. Is there anyone knows if I can get it…
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Needing Some Advise Again!
Hi guys, my mind is running overtime so I'll try to keep it brief and to the point. I spent an hour earlier trying to contact the Citizens Advice Bureau for my area and it just rang and rang and I gave up. My situation is as follows... I've been living at home with my parents (lost Mum in October) for the past 10 years…
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How to pay 6 months rent in advance
Hi. I have physical and mental disabilities and i am needing to move house. My current house has 3 stories and is completely unmanageable for me. The problem i have is agencies i have spoken to want 6 months rent in advance due to being in receipt of disability benefits. I cannot pay this. I cannot get a loan and i have no…
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There is no escape
I need to move away from this place so I can begin to properly heal. (I've tried doing it trust me) but it's been over a decade and I'm just worse. I suffer from chronic and mental illnesses. Pretty sure the stress on my body from being constantly anxious has made my symptoms worse. Not going to bother going into detail as…
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Adaptions for home
Has anyone used their own private, care assessment done by a private OT instead of going through the councils adult care to receive adaptions for things like a downstairs bedroom extension and wet room
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Wheelchair platform lifts
I have been told that a wheelchair platform lift to raise me 3 feet to my back door will cost me £15,000 - that appears to be excessive (the house is built on a slope) Is that an accurate price?
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Advice about new electric storage heaters
Hi everyone. I'm a mum with Fibromyalgia and a couple of other conditions who has been offered a council move to a property* in Hove. I have been told that the heating system has been changed recently to new electric storage heaters and I'm guessing everything is electric in the flats now. I really need to find out from…
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Can the council ask you to move?
Hi does anyone know if u have just moved to a council house but need a downstairs bedroom for disabled child as the stairs are to steep, can the council ask you to move or can u say u dome want to and apply for the adaptions extension
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Moving Out, being independant How ??
Hi Members sorry for the vague title i wasn't sure what to enter whoops. I have been with my folks on and off for some years now I'm 47 nearly 48 years old and was diagnosed around a year ago with Psoriatic Arthritis, I've worked all my life until a started having issues about 2 years ago. i am currently on Universal…
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asked to sign something I could not read
Here Is a question I hope someone can answer, background Male 61 yo disabled In sheltered Accommodation Yesterday my housing officer manager called in to update my care and Needs details or so I was told? I answered lots of questions from her little tablet and at the end she passed the tablet to me with a good sized grey…
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Tech and how it can help
So its really simple, I thought I would make this post, because of my experiances with tech in my home, I have alexa stuff in my home (suffer with chronic pain amoungst other issues). I first got a alexa for every room, the tip here is to wait until amazon has a sale as it gets them down to about £30 each, why still…
