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Great to see you on this thread. My local council in Redditch
wrote me a letter saying I cannot claim Housing Benefit until i'm 66 .
I am 63 with incureable disabilities claiming legacy benefits including SDP
Shouldn't the council update their website on the 16/01 otherwise people like
me will think they cannot claim?
Why does the Deception still go on ?
a claim for Housing Benefit" but no mention of whether anyone in my position is allowed to backdate the claim.
Please give your views on this subject
I really feel that I should try to claim for all the Housing Benefit denied to me over the last 12 months,but fellow readers say that I should have gone on to Universal Credit but if I had of done I would have lost my SDP premium every week.
So who do I try to claim from ? Would it be DWP ? Or the local council?
Please someone help me
The stress on my health over the last 12 months has taken an awful toll
I lost 3 stone and the excessive stress and lack of money for food seriously
affected my diabetic diet and now I have tremors in my hands.
Already suffer from panic attacks and anxious outbreaks.
Things went from bad to worse .Suicidal thoughts.
3am and my friend is typing this blog to help me.
On the 9th of January 2019 I receive a nasty letter from my local council (Redditch )stating I cannot have any Housing Benefit unless I go on to Universal Credit
They make no mention of the new Gateway condition for a disabled person like myself receiving SDP which came into force on the 16/01/2019
Instead the letter says unless I go over to Universal Credit I cannot have any help with my rent until my pensionable age in 3 years time.
I have requested an ANYTIME REVISION on my Housing Benefit after reading
great blog from Tressel and Apollo.
I won't give up in this fight which I believe has had a very serious impact on my health.
My local council made no mention in the 09/01/2019 letter to me about the new Gateway condition,instead threatened me saying all future applications for Housing Benefit would be denied me unless I joined Universal Credit or
reach pensionable age.
I might be a broken poor man but I will fight against this injustice
I am just so grateful that SCOPE and this brilliant site exists.
Thankyou for your advice. I personally think that the local councils will blame DWP for not placing recipients of SDP in an exemption category in 2018
I am sending in an ANYTIME REVISION on my housing benefit and see where I go from there.
ON MY HOUSING BENEFIT requesting the backdating also.
I am very grateful for yourself and other readers that have emailed me paperwork
and templates to challenge the council.
The template you sent me was most helpful in me challenging how the council refused me Housing Benefit and how it has impacted on my physical and mental
health and the awful impact on my day to day living causing more angina attacks,
more panic attacks and more depressive episodes which at times caused
suicidal thoughts. No government or council should have put disabled people through this mental torture.
Ive also heard that after Brexit the current government wants to abolish Human Right's laws .How true that is ,i'm not sure
Please comment
Many thanks
Am I going about this the right way? I am asking my local council for an ANYTIME REVISION ON MY HOUSING BENEFIT including a request for backdating my claim or should I be claiming from DWP?
I think you APOLLO are making your claim from DWP or are you trying DWP
and your local council?
angina attacks.
Scope is allowing our voices to be heard across the country
Just hoping we can win back some if not all of the money lost in paying full rent this last year .
I wish every one on here the very best in winning the battle against a government
which clearly has acted in a discriminatory way towards Disabled people
Are you telling me youv'e been refused Housing Benefit even though
the new Gateway condition has kicked in ? You receive SDP AND OLD LEGACY BENEFITS ,SURELY SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY WRONG
I will let you all know how I get on
I have the CAB looking into the whole matter
pleased you have this all sorted - well one stage of it for yourself.
You are a member of our community and we appreciate you. If you are having thoughts of suicide, it is important that you discuss them with someone who is qualified to help. Please call the Samaritans on 116 123 (free) or email them at [email protected]. You might also benefit from reading MIND’s information on how you can help yourself:
http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/suicidal-feelings/how-can-i-help-myself/
If you feel that you may be an immediate danger to yourself, please call 999 or go to your local hospital right away.
Glad to see you have CAB involved, and please keep us updated.
I have had word from my local council that Housing Benefit will be awarded from the 20th of January 2019.I am pleased.,but I am not pleased with a letter from the council saying I have not shown good enough continuous reason to backdate my claim back to Feb 2018 . What they are really saying is its my fault I had no help with my rent because I refused to join Universal Credit last year.I said to the council," If I had of joined Universal Credit last year I would have lost my SDP part of my benefit resulting in greater losses amounting to over £400 @ month"
I have requested an ANYTIME REVISION on my Housing Benefit since last
March . I am not afraid of going to a tribunal or court with or without lawyers to fight for JUSTICE. I will never give up and SCOPE givesus a great platform to share all our views were we can all help each other
all this back or go bankrupt .
Unless a miracle happens and the council award a backpayment. But the arguement continues the Council want to blame us when in real fact its the Council and Government and DWP that need to own up that Disabled have been put through HELL especially this last year
MANY THOUSANDS OF POOR DISABLED PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MUCH WORSE OFF and now the government tries to make only PART AMENDS
Our issue will not go away .We had to PAY FULL RENT otherwise we would have lost our SDP and EHP element of our benefits.
We deserve compensation from either the local councils or DWP or the government itself.
The ORCHESTRATOR of this DESTRUCTION of the legacy benefits is no other
than IAIN DUNCAN SMITH .
Human Right lawyers should prosecute him for persecution and discrimination towards not only disabled people but against all people on benefits.
Words fail me for the SHAMEFUL AND DISGUSTING ways in which we have all be treated.