AA rubbish again

2oldcodgers

Another of the Daily Express statements. They seem to forget that the DWP are not interested in a diagnosis, you have no need to have a diagnosis, only the care someone needs and at what level is the deciding factor.

At least 56 health conditions qualify for Attendance Allowance:

• Arthritis
• Spondylosis
• Back Pain - Other / Precise Diagnosis not Specified
• Disease of The Muscles, Bones or Joints
• Trauma to Limbs
• Blindness
• Deafness
• Heart disease
• Chest disease
• Asthma
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Cerebrovascular Disease
• Peripheral vascular Disease
• Epilepsy
• Neurological Diseases
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Parkinson's Disease
• Motor Neurone Disease
• Chronic Pain Syndromes
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Metabolic Disease
• Traumatic Paraplegia/Tetraplegia
• Major Trauma Other than Traumatic Paraplegia/Tetraplegia
• Learning Difficulties
• Psychosis
• Psychoneurosis
• Personality Disorder
• Dementia
• Behavioural Disorder
• Alcohol and Drug Abuse
• Hyperkinetic syndrome
• Renal Disorders
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Bowel and Stomach Disease
• Blood Disorders
• Haemophilia
• Multi System Disorders
• Multiple Allergy SyndromeSkin Disease
• Malignant Disease
• Severely Mentally impaired
• Double Amputee
• Deaf/Blind
• Haemodialysis
• Frailty
• Total Parenteral Nutrition
• AIDS
• Infectious diseases: Viral disease - Coronavirus covid-19
• Infectious diseases: Viral disease - precise diagnosis not specified
• Infectious diseases: Bacterial disease - Tuberculosis
• Infectious diseases: Bacterial disease - precise diagnosis not specified
• Infectious diseases: Protozoal disease - Malaria
• Infectious diseases: Protozoal disease - other / precise diagnosis not specified
• Infectious diseases - other / precise diagnosis not specified
• Cognitive disorder - other / precise diagnosis not specified
• Terminally Ill.

calcotti

Only one of those is potentially true as qualifying for entitlement - the last one (if death might happen within the six months - soon to be extended to twelve months).

These are dreadful articles. 

The health conditions are those which may cause difficulties in personal care which could therefore result in entitlement to AA.

nasturtium

These news stories I have seen often in all of the newspapers of all types and political allegiances and I never ever pay attention to any of them. It is just a indication that they have nothing better to print and the majority are the same article retyped differently with a click bait headline.

Nasturtium

poppy123456

It’s the same for all disability benefits. Best thing to do is ignore them.

Cher_Alumni

Oh dear, yep I'd definitely stick to official, trustworthy sources for benefits information (and news altogether, more generally!). It's good you were able to recognise this as twaddle, I fear others might take it at face value however and be put off applying for benefits they're entitled to.