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Young people with cerebral palsy needed!
I have been asked to advertise participant recruitment for some university research. Please consider taking part. ***My name is Fatima, and I am a third-year Occupational Therapy student at the University of Brighton. I am currently conducting research on the experiences of young adults (18-25) with Cerebral Palsy who…
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Feedback on information about mortgages and benefits
Do you claim benefits and want to find out if you can get a mortgage? Or do you already have a mortgage and want to find out if receiving benefits will affect your renewal? We're creating a new webpage for the Scope website and would love to hear from you. If you'd be willing to help, please email…
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International Day of Education - Inclusive Education
It's International Day of Education today and in this post we will talk about the importance of inclusive education for disabled children and young people. Inclusive education is crucial for disabled children because it creates confidence, empowerment and boosts their self-esteem. Inclusive education is more than just…
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DLA Information for Parents and Carers
This information only applies to England and Wales. Disability Living Allowance (DLA) helps with the extra costs of raising a disabled child. You can claim DLA for each disabled child under 16 who.. • has difficulty with mobility • needs more care than a non-disabled child of the same age Your child does not need a formal…
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Happy Lunar New Year - Year of the Snake 🐍
Happy Year of the Snake! Happy Lunar New Year to everyone who celebrates! The Lunar New Year kicks off the Chinese Spring Festival and the changing of the Chinese zodiac. Lots of families will be travelling to be with each other and sharing food and gifts to celebrate the new year. This year, we're moving out of the year…
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We want to hear from YOU!
Your insights are crucial for a meaningful study on cervical screening. If you’ve ever had experience with it, we want to know what it's really like from your perspective. It’s quick, easy, and makes a real difference! To get involved - please see the attached poster below *** The above post has been moderated and checked…
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A to z of food
lets play A to Z of food A Apple
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Word association game
How's everyone on this miserable Friday? Hope you're all okay and looking forward to the weekend. :) The word association game If I say 'sky' you could reply with 'blue'. If I say 'cat' you might say 'mouse'. Anything goes, just keep it clean! ;)
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A - Z professions game
Improved game as the last one ended up with all the same letters Name a profession starting with the next letter of the alphabet to the one before I’ll start with Accountant
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A to Z of drinks
It can be anything alcoholic hot or cold drinks Apple juice
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A to Z of Household Items. New Game.
Air fryer
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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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A to Z cities
A B
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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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UC Review Meltdown
Like so many others on here, I got the dreaded review message on Friday. It didn't bother me too much at first until I checked the to-dos; 4 months bank statements by the 7th Feb. Now, amongst other stuff I have ASD, so 4 months means nothing to me, I need dates from and to as the savings accounts statements have to be…
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Going outside of GB for about 9 hours
Hello, I've looked and can't find an actual concrete answer. I am LCWRA on UC and I am going outside of the UK (to France) for a few hours - about 9 hours. Leaving in the morning and returning in the evening. I am unsure if I actually need to report going outside of GB. I have read that the DWP don't actually count the…
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Deprivation of capital and universal credit
I have looked at rules re deprivation of capital for UC and am worried about spending money my benefits total 1339 through pip and uc after paying rent so I have a lot of disposable income which will just increase my savings every month until I hit 16k then my benefits will stop. If they stop my benefits if I reach 16k…
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Can I claim PIP , LCWRA and carers allowance at the same time
Hi everyone I hope you are all well. I wanted to know if you can claim LCWRA and carers Allowance at the same time?? (while on a joint universal credit claim) I already claim pip for myself and I also receive carers allowance for caring for my incredibly sick son my wife also claims carers allowance for caring for our…
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Hi, my name is BeeBee1965! UC migration from Income Support - payments reduced
Hi. Please can you help us with some advice. Me and my wife were on income surport. She claims for both of us. We were moved from income surport to universal credit. We were getting paid fortnightly on income surport at £320 a fortnight now we been moved over to universal credit we are only getting £550 a month for both of…
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Found out i been missing ton money
Long story short. Got my dreaded UC migration letter so.used entitledto calculator. I get esa support group and comes to £318.50 ebery 2 weeks. But entitled to says i should be gettimg £204 a week!! Took me AGES to.work out its to do with carers allowance? Nobody gets carer allowance from me since my mum passed away in…
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Income support migration notice
I can’t find anywhere any clarification as to what a claimant commitment would look like for a couple who are on income support with no commitments like uc implement we are due to migrate to uc soon but I don’t. See what it will be like as we are not on esa
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Hi, my name is crazy12!
Hi I am looking for advice please ?? My mum and dad are on a joint claim for income support they have received their dreaded migration notice now I know they will have transitional protection that’s a relief but my worries are what will uc be expecting from them in regards to claimant commitment my mum currently claims…
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From legacy benefits to Universal Credit
Is this universal credit affect everyone that's being changed over to UC. I'm on ESA Support group n pip it's just worrying at the moment and thinking the worse
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What to list in the PIP Conditions section
Hello 👋 I've been looking on the Benefits and Work list of conditions and their success rates for PIP. I've already listed six conditions that I have, but I've noticed that I have some of the other conditions on the list that are a result of the ones I've already listed. I'd rather not go into detail, so I hope you…
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Lcwra
Hi, just wanted some advice. I have been sending fit notes since the beginning of my claim Jan 2024. In November 2024 I received a uc50 form. I did not get a telephone assessment til yesterday. I was wondering if its awarded would I get back pay and how far would they go?
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Hi, my name is teaganbreen00729!
Heyyyy I'm looking for a GF I'm 18 from Florida and I have autism
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Will my UC, PIP, LCWRA Payments be affected by me marrying an African lady?
Milton Keynes man here again after remembering another issue. I have sent various emails to MK CAB about benefits etc., but I always get ignored by them so I hope I do better here. Wife died January 2021 after a long illness and I was her main carer. Four years later I am due to get married this year to a Nigerian lady who…
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WCA mandatory reconsideration
Hello, I've gone through WCA assessment and was deemed 'don't have limited capability for work and maybe able to do some work' (whatever that means, since it's 'maybe'). I have requested medical report and asked for mandatory reconsideration. The medical report is full of incorrect, misrepresented information and some…
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Will I be forced to claim Universal Credit if we separate?
Hi. I am currently in the Support group on the enhanced rate. The claim is in my name, as with my housing & council tax benefits. When my partner moved in as my carer, they just added him, but all the paperwork remains in my name. They then gave my severe premium to him, as carer's allowance. I need to know - if he moves…
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Wednesday: Statement on Benefits
[Moderator note: This discussion contains a lot of speculation.] I've just read this. I'm more frightened these people that I was of anything IDS put forward... and that's saying something.
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Advice about Prepared Food Delivery
Please can I ask whether anybody uses prepared food delivery (not 'takeaways) like Wiltshire or similar and their view of it, value, etc., especially compared to any struggles beforehand? For context, I have been unable to safely use oven or hob for the last 2 years. I make a 'proper' meal once a week, its always a…
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Tell us some boring news.
There's intrigue in the mundane and so today we're asking you to share: what is something boring you've done lately? Emptied the kitchen bin? Run out of teabags? Bought a clothes airer? Cleaned the oven? Tell us. I'll go: I walked to the shop to post a parcel, but I'd accidentally deleted the digital label they needed to…
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Mental health
One mental health worker I visited told me I have EUPD . I was also given medication to help anxiety too .
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Hi, my name is Chelleadam!
hi everyone
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So after a year + of waiting for my pip review I finally received this text
I assume this means I'll have an assement? I haven't seen this one before on here, I'm on enhanced for both and glad to finally see some progress anyways.. anyone had this one and had paper based or dealt with maximus?
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Counting sheep game: are Admin awake?
A variation of @66Mustang ' s famous counting gameHow many sheep can we count before Admin realise? We'll probably do well in the night time.....so starting from 1 & always adding the word 'sheep,' or the next person has to repeat the last number. Admin can restart the game if they're 'awake!' I'll start with1 sheep
