AIBU to thank David Cameron and the other one for buying me a cooker

[CreamolaFoamless]

My cooker oven exploded about 3 weeks ago.

and thanks to the great british system .......which everyone berates at times

I have been given £280 to buy a new cooker.

(I have paid my taxes) but seriously £280 for a new cooker , the month before christmas , thank you

I would never have known this was possible unless a really clued up person advised me about it

no valium i dont have to pay it back but i will in february....if I pay it back when I have the money hopefully another person will benefit

Am I alone in wondering why the OP is being so cagey and not telling us exactly what she claimed and whether she is currently on means tested benefits or not?

well i've got the letter out and it says a personal payment from the social fund?

it doesnt mention crisis loans or community care grants?Have I been given something weird?

have you ordered this cooker yet?

it was a pink and grey form zeeboo i don't have it to look I sent it away

I do know it went to birmingham though if that helps?

no i haven't blackoutthesun I have no idea where to buy one from?

ooh lend me £20 until Friday! We have £7 left until payday.

Creamola, do you care for anyone? There are grants to carers that don't need to be paid back.

they come in cm's ffs

50cms or 60cms .......

Electric or gas OP? Argos has an electric one for £250.

The Tory government ended all Crisis Loans for furniture/ household items in April this year to save money. At the same time they reduced the amount of money for telephone crisis loans (for food,gas and electric) from 75% of basic benefit rates to 60%.

To get a budgeting loan you have to be getting JSA (IB) , IS or PC for 26 weeks and it will be affected by any other BL debt you might have.

To get a CCG you DO have to be getting a qualifying benefit and you would also need to be establishing yourself in the community from some form of care, be at risk of going into care and a CCG would help you remain independent or a family facing very exceptional pressure. This would be over and above the normal pressure of managing on a low income such as a disabled family member or an exceptional situation like fleeing DV. Even if a claim meets the necessary criteria because of very limited funds the priority of each individual item has to be assessed in order to stretch the money as far as possible over the financial year as there is a fixed amount of money allocated for the year.

Reading between the lines I would think that OP or partner receive a QB and are facing exceptional pressure - what did you say on the form about your family situation ? - a cooker is considered a high priority item especially if the are health problems in

the family.

The form is light and darkish pink, the light does look greyish though.
I have one here as I live in temp accom on a 7 day lease so will need to fill it in and get it bask asap once I get notice of moving.

i have no idea how big my broken cooker is

50cm or 60cm does mean centimetres yeah? Or is it cubic metres?

oh my god.......I have no idea what I'm doing ...I officially hate cookers

could you post a link valium ? I've given up on asda and Im looking at this one from comet
www.comet.co.uk/p/Electric-Cookers/buy-BELLING-335-WHITE-Electric-Cooker/867698

Cookers are measured width ways - so measure across the front from left to right. Use a ruler if you don't have a tape measure.

tp:www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4895101.htm

www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4895101.htm

Also Birmingham is where the Independent Review Service are. If you ask for a review of a CCG it first goes go to an internal DWP Review Officer. If still unhappy then you can ask for it to be referred to the IRS. I have never heard of a personal payment ! Might be new though I suppose - although pretty unlikely with the current gov't I would have thought.

I take it that's a no then...

it says

Perry Barr Centre
St Stephens Street
Birmingham
B99 1AG

pm me body ofeyeore

Something not right here,

The CCG -
You can apply for a Community Care Grant if you are either:
already getting Income Support, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, Pension Credit, or payment on account of one of these benefits,

which if she was, wouldnt be paying tax?...

And, do we live in a government who gives working free people money to buy cookers, yet some of our elderly people are going to freeze to death this winter?

Someone's lieing, and shamelessly boasting, well done. I'm going to buy myself a chanel bag, didn't start a thread about that one did i?

champagnevanity

She means she paid her taxes in the past I think we've already established, not that she still is.

I think that address is the Independent Review address. Were you originally turned down for the application and then appealed?