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Cut the Costs, Not the Comfort: Smart Energy Tips That Can Save You Money!
If you were to apply just the changes with a £ saving below, you could save around £313 a year! Heating spaces Did you know the recommended temperature during cold weather is 21°C (70°F) in main areas and 18°C (64°F) in other rooms such as your bedroom. However, if you were to turn it down by just 1°C when your room is…
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New Funding to Support Independent Living for Older and Disabled People
£50 million boost to help more people live independently at home The government has announced an extra £50 million for the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) in 2025–26, helping around 5,000 more older and disabled people adapt their homes so they can live safely and independently. The funding supports vital home improvements…
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An apology for today's unexpected emails
We want to sincerely apologise for the large number of notification emails many of you have received or are continuing to receive today. While carrying out routine maintenance on the community, an error occurred that caused email notifications to be sent in bulk. This was not intended, and we fully understand how…
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🔥 Stay Toasty for Less: Budget-Friendly Winter Readiness Guide 🔥
Over the coming weeks I'm going to be exploring a number of areas such-as keeping warm, cost savings, energy efficiency and support available. Heating spaces covers 65% of our overall energy use in the home so I’m going to begin by focusing on this area. Heat loss in the home There are 5 main places in which heat is lost:…
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Help us to organise the advice and support section on Scope's website.
We are looking for people to take part in an activity which will be used to organise the advice and support section on Scope's website. The activity should take 10 to 15 minutes. People who complete the activity can enter their email address to be entered in a prize draw for a £40 gift voucher. It is not a test and there…
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Tea talk
This discussion was created from comments split from: What are your concerns about a potential Digital ID?.
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Despairing with sinusitis
I have lots of medical conditions and all are more serious than my sinusitis but my sinusitis is putting me in a very bad place. Sleeping more than 60 mins has been impossible for many weeks now because my mouth quickly becomes drier than the Sahara desert which of course wakes me up. I use Otrivine nasal spray which kinda…
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Just wondering after the timms review has been completed are over state pensioners thats on pip affected by it or is it just the working age people thats on pip?
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Surgery refusing to add blood pressure results to medical record
The problems continue with my surgery - I was asked to take my blood pressure for 7 days - which I did and sent them via email, yesterday, to my surgery - nothing heard and nothing appeared in my medical record - so I repeated the email this morning - I was told that I am NOT allowed to email them - and must use the…
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Transitional Protection
Hi, I'm new here so if this subject has already been discussed please accept my apologies. I'm just wondering how many people are aware of the affect that the TP part of their benefit has on annual benefit cost of living increases and how many councils are treating the TP amount as 'extra' income and reducing reduction…
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Will UC be linked to PIP for existing claimants?
HI I am waiting to know as the goverment said exisising claiment will be protected so are telling me the correct answer that is uc will be linked with pip for exsisiting lcwra claimant? Thanks
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Contribution based ESA wanting to claim UC
Hi, I currently claim Contribution based ESA and I am in the support group. That is the only benefit I am claiming. I do not receive income based ESA. I was going to apply for Universal Credit and was told that because I am in the support group that I would automaticaly be awarded LCWRA. Is this true ? Does that mean I…
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14 days holiday
I am planing to take a 14 days holiday have no work commitments as I am lcwra do I have advise uc
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Greeenpower Unique 500 technical manual
Does anyone know where you can buy/download or get sight of a technical manual for a Greenpower Unique 500? Thanks
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Poem called embrace in love
once you have your love next to you, we find to embrace love between us as our hearts race and we grace our love for each other. We enhances each other every single moment of the day with sweet kisses on your enchanted lips. With each petal of each red rose that receive from me express it how as it grows with I want to say…
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Autism and attending court as a witness
Hi, I have autism and learning disabilities, I have a court case coming up soon taking back my anti social behaviour neighbour to court for breaching an undertaking order by the court and also soon an civil injunction will be applied for. I am very nervous about attending the court setting and the whole process the local…
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Word Association Game
I think it's fun how some of our threads can go from topic to topic and end up somewhere completely different. If I write a word, the next poster writes the first word that comes into their heads- keeping it as clean as per any forum rules. So if I put dog, someone might say cat or walk. And so on....... First word is Cake
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I’m new here looking former friendships / dating for disabled women
Hi im new here just joined today I’m looking for advice how to start dating again and making new friendships I was in a 33 year realsionship so alien to the dating game I am also in a wheelchair have been disabled for 14 years it be nice to be able to speak to people also have disabilities and looking online for…
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poem called sweet birds singing
poem called sweet birds singing During the summer months the birds sing mellow songs that sound sweet humming which has calming feeling on my ears love listening to the birds singing away which also makes my mind calm down as sometimes my mind goes a 100 miles an hour but listening to the birds singing helps me to feel…
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New pip laws
hi everybody I have just heard that the new rules for PIP /uc benefits are in place. Can somebody tell me if they are aware exactly what the new Pip rules are and when do they start from I am waiting for an assessment very soon, hopefully.
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Do you have cerebral palsy?
Did you know that exercise is vital for cerebral palsy? Just like a car needs fuel (or electric!), if a car hasn’t got any fuel, it simply won’t start! Or if it has limited fuel, it simply won’t get very far! Cerebral palsy is a neurological condition, but it is also known as a motor disorder affecting movement! So the…
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How to find friends
I just want make some new friends and have some nice chat
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What are your concerns about a potential Digital ID?
There's been some talk on the community regarding the governments potential plans to roll out a digital ID and this is something we're keen to get your feedback on. As everything is a hypothetical right now, we won't be answering any questions, as no one really knows right now and there are no actual plans in place. But…
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How is your day going?
A cold start to the day brr, how's your day going? I'm longing for a coffee but got a sleeping cat draped over me, pinching my body heat.
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Digital ID
So starmer still wants it to go ahead ,despite the population against it. He wants the departments to make cuts to fund it. What is wrong with him !
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Hemocromatoesis
iv only had this a year . And learning more each day . I’m suffering with really bad fatigue and my ankles and hands and wrists really hert. Iv given my job I loved up as I cannot dig holes and do the call out hrs anymore. My memorie is getting worse each week . And I’m now struggling with money , don’t no we’re to go next…
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PIP Review - admin error
Hello I'm in the midst of my first PIP review. Award ends April 2026, Review form completed and sent in early October 2025. I called DWP to get a progress update mid November as wanted to send in more evidence as well and they said progressing. I rang after Christmas and they found an admin error, my form had not been…
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Wheelchair User Getting a cat
Hi. i am a wheelchair user and am thinking of getting a cat. I have a few concerns. Eg: being able to reach and fill the food bowl and also fill and empty the litter tray. Can anyone tell me if they are in a similar position to me and if so what do they do or use to make this possible. Thanks
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UC REASONABLE ADJUSTMENTS
Has anyone been given reasonable adjustments so that they can migrate to UC. Without going into detail I cannot use a computer and the only option is the phone but not sure if that comes with problems. Please let me know if anyone did a phone application with, or without RA's in place. Thank you
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Christmas Letter Game 🌟
Let's see how this one goes, inspired by the 5 letter game! I'll start us off with a Christmassy word, and the next person must make a sentence from all the letters in the word. The longer the word, the more challenging it'll be, so just keep that in mind! If you're up for an extra challenge, try and make the sentence…
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The five letter game
So here's a new fun game for you all to try out. I've picked five letters. The next person has to make a sentence using just the five letters. Like this... T C B G F Next person replies with something like "This Could Be Great Fun" Then they leave another five letters. Got it? The first five letters are... W Y I M K
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Film game.
Apologies if this has been done before……but simple rules, last letter of each film starts a new one! For example…..Wizard of Oz, becomes Zulu…..
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The Fictional Character Name Game!
This is the same idea as The Celebrity Name Game! but instead of Celebrities, we use Fictional Characters. They could be from a book, or a film/series, a game… anything really 😊 The aim of the game is to think of a fictional character who's first name begins with the first letter of the previous celebrity's surname. For…
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2026 cost of living payment
Hi is there a 2026 cost of living payment in january 2026 i am a disabled adult in my 60,s and receive adult disability benefit and if so how much i am in receipt of UC income related please let me know ?
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Capita no assesment needed
Good afternoon all I had a mini stroke last year diagnosed with epilepsy and also have a none cancerous tumour on my brain . I have been awarded LWRWA or whatever it's called for my UC. I also applied for PIP in sept. My question is yesterday I was told by capita who do the assessments for PIP that a face to face or phone…
