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Hi, my name is katieNew! Can I get any help with moving?
Hello all, Can you please advise me? I've recently become quite disabled. I can no longer work and so I'll get early retirement due to ill health. I am 60 and a house owner but I can no longer manage the stairs inside and outside my property. Is there any help I can get to move? I can no longer manage housework either. I…
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Son with autism, transition process to supported living advice?
I have have a son with autism who is coming up 19 and going through the transition process to supported living quite unsuccessfully. We don’t seem to have have much support from social services in this respect. Hoping to hear others’ stories and advice - how does someone find a home of their own with 2-1 24/7 support?…
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Hi, my name is Oliver's Dad Can anybody recommend a place to rent equipment?
I am the father of a 10 year old boy who has CP. We will be travelling to the UK in a few weeks. Previously when we have travelled we have been able to bring my sons wheelchair and walker, but as he has gotten bigger, so has his equipment. His walker is really too large to travel with now, so we are looking into renting…
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I am looking for voice activated telephone dialling for my 100 year old mother in law.
Hi, I am looking for voice activated telephone dialling for my 100 year old mother in law.
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Grants for wetroom/bathroom re-modelling.
Hi. I'm a carer for my wife who has MS, she is due to be discharged from hospital soon and will be back home again, (been in hospital since 3rd Feb.) . The equipment which will be supplied to transfer her from one chair to another etc. is too large to fit through our bathroom door and talking to the OT at the hospital they…
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Hi, my name is CMB! I'm looking for a grant to have a downstairs cloakroom
I am looking for a grant to have a downstairs cloakroom. My local authority says I should have a commode downstairs but I live with a man (I am female), and I invite guests to my home.
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HOSPITAL CAR PARK
Hello, I hope you are all well. I would like to kindly ask If anyone had a parking fine similar to mine, and what would you advice me please. I took my daughter who is four and half years old to Lewisham Hospital, children A&E and I left my car in the car park which is only for disabled badge holders (with displaying my…
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Hoping for help. I'm looking for a house to rent
Hi everyone. New to all this, not sure if this is the done thing or not, but I'm looking for a house to private rent in aldridge area, and was wondering if anyone know of someone who is looking to rent there home. Been private renting for many many years now without any problems but the lanlord is selling. just want a nice…
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Rented Flat Options on PIP
Hi, I'm looking to move out of my step father's house and into a rented flat... I'm just looking for some advice on what my options are? I claim ESA and PIP. Thanx
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Hi, my name is Ben31! Are there any grants to help furnish and decorate a property?
My son is 19 with numerous disabilities and has to been accepted to live in a ground floor flat(this is because we are over crowded in our home) and it’s on 5 doors away from us and is anyone able to point us in the right direction in grants to help furnish and decorate his property as he only gets UC & enhanced care &…
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Wheelchair ramp advice
Our daughter has just got her first power chair, having previously had a folding chair which we would lift over the door and set up for her outside. We have a uPVC porch which has a lip both inside and outside the door, so we needed a ramp that does both angles. We've got a bridging ramp, but of course you have to put it…
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Reapplying Driving Licence
Hi Everyone just need some advice im looking in to reapplying for my licence does anyone know the process and what it entails also the proof is in the pudding by actually driving a car but do i apply for a provisional licence to see if i am capable thanks P
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Creating an Accessible Wetroom in my Garage / Disabled Facilities Grant /
Hello … My Dad is 98 and has unfortunately become blind; he also has problems with mobility. I am therefore thinking of creating an Accessible Wetroom / bathroom for him to use downstairs in our garage. Now, I have seen that there is UK Law setting a minimum size for a Wetroom in a commercial building or business premises…
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Advice needed on electric wheelchair/mobility scooter please
I'd like to speak to people who use an electric wheelchair or a mobility scooter. I'm considering buying one and would be grateful for any advice what to pay attention to when choosing a model. I have severe fatigue. I'm OK walking a few metres inside my home, but need someone to push me in a wheelchair outside. I thought…
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How will having a Morgage on a 2nd property affect my benifits
Hello I am hoping someone can help me. Myself and my husband and children currently live in a property that’s ours paid for completely I am on Esa , uc , pip I have mobility and care problems due to MS. But I want to be able to get a Morgage to buy my grandparents house as they are at the age where they have to pay back…
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Dependant allowance
Hi I live in a 5 bed housing association house I have 6 children and my partner living here Rent is £247 a week We claim tax credits & working tax credits I do not work and claim PIP with high care and low mobility Partner works and earns £1012 after tax a month 3 of my children are non dependant and work 2 of my children…
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Housing Benefit Help
Hey guys, just wanted some advise about my hosing benefit, I'm not not to clued up with state of affairs with benefits relating housing benefits I find it very difficult to understand so I left it to the local council to deal plus I was dealing with depression and at very low point in life, so im not sure if I should be…
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Looking for wheelchair, scooters or other equipment?
Hi everyone I’m @Spoonie_Naila. I was diagnosed five years ago with a rare long term auto immune condition called Vasculitis. Amongst other things it’s affected my mobility a great deal. The last few years have been tough trying to navigate the world with a different body that I’ve been used to, an as many people will…
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Brother In law
My husband, his brother is in the hospital and the doctor says could be two days to live he had a massive heart attack. i am disabled and I am waiting for results of my second MRI. Since last April over a year ago no one knows why I can’t walk, bend, do anything without severe back pain, my husband had to give up his job…
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Housing Benefit and ESA
Hi would a change or loss to my housing benefit claim trigger a move onto universal credit from ESA? Thanks
