Further £100 for council tax support, pensioners and vulnerable

Jeffers1308 said:

I filled out a form for this yesterday for my mother, then I thought well I’m in receipt of council tax and vulnerable being disabled so I my local council this,:-

I think the application for the £100 one off payment from the aforementioned is very unfair for the following reasons

I am in receipt of council tax support, but not of pensionable age.

Because I am physically disabled with the following CHRONIC issues

Spina Bifida

Hydrocephalus with VP SHUNT

Chiari Malformation Type II

These conditions are defined as CHRONIC (lasting 12 months or more) and will not improve only get worse.

I have had the first two since birth, and the third diagnosed in 2001.

Thus I class myself as VULNERABLE as these issues will not get better.

Therefore I think I should qualify for the £100 also, as I class it as discrimination.

And this is their reply:-

Thank you for your email regarding the Household Support Fund. The Government funding for the latest Household Support Fund has a requirement that at least a third has to be awarded to people of pension age to assist with essential living costs. Therefore to meet this requirement a one off payment of £100 is being made to low income households of pensionable age by the Benefits department. 

 

The remaining funding is also being utilised across other services such as education/free school meals, housing options/homelessness and Shropshire Council’s Welfare Support Team. Therefore assistance is also being made available to and being provided to a number of non-pensionable age households. 

 

Therefore as you are not of pension age you will not receive the one off payment being made to low income pension age households from the Benefits Department but if you are having difficulties with bills and/or other cost of living matters we would advise you to contact the Welfare Support Team who also have Household Support Funding available on a discretionary basis  to assist low income and/or vulnerable residents of Shropshire.

 

The Welfare Support team can be contacted on 0345 678 9078 (option 2) and further information regarding Cost of living help can be found online at Shropshire Council’s website through the links below:

 

Cost of living help | Shropshire Council

 

Welfare Support Team - local welfare provision | Shropshire Council

I certainly think that is one rule for one and one for another ( if your a pensioner), 

What do other people think

woodbine said:

racyguy said:

If I take your opinion further are you suggesting that ALL disabled people should get this payment?
It would then be simple - all those in receipt of DLA or PIP would be entitled.

which is exactly what will happen in the Autumn.

leeCal said:

I remember those days too @racyguy, I lost my house at 15% and my two dogs had to be adopted by others and I never saw them again. I remember well Nigel Lawson The then chancellor being constantly asked by the press if he had anything to say to mortgage holders, eventually he said “yes, well they are all adults and knew what they were doing when they took out a mortgage.” Or words to that effect, harsh and unkind, suicides went up in that period. i knew what I was doing when I took out a five percent mortgage, not even sure that using the interest rates like that actually worked.

This situation is subtlety different, I think. 

incidentally, some analysts are predicting these rates to go on for up to two years more! I can’t see us having enough to bail people out for that long.