Disability cuts

[Springsummer123]

Name changed as obviously sensitive subject and don't want to put myself .i possibly don't know enough on this so am interested in other views . I may have only seen a small percentage - I'm insure ?
I have 2 sisters . One has had a stroke .which had devestated the family . She is quite well off yet has been upset she will loose a benifit that I believe is for her husband being her carer . Ok discussion to try to ease her fears it's very clear they don't need it . They can afford all care , holidays good standard of living on her payout . Number of property's all fully owned out right . Yet she thinks she should get it as some sort of compensation for the stroke .i can see why she would be angry with life but she doesn't need the money ? Surely it's right to be cut ?
My second sister works with adults with autism . She was saying they are struggling to spend the last part of their money entitlement before the next claim . I know they have holidays etc and their is still money over ( my sister accompanied many times )
So I'm wondering in some cases should the disability benifits be cut ?

I think it's all right to mention it U2, as above.

Okay, have posted myself into a headache now so it's time to take a breather :)

TABs commenting on disabilities, pointless and stupid.

Whats a TAB?

The Able Bodied?

No, I know you are a sound poster u2

^"Why isn't this getting more press? We mananged to take down the Tories over tax credits cuts, why not this?"
Because TC affected more people? Because many people who aren't disabled or don't have disabled children also seem to be completely lacking in the empathy department and can't see that every single one of us is one accident or health issue away from life changing disability, and if you can't afford to pay into umpteen insurance policies, disability can mean you're fucked.
Because it's a them and us situation.^

This. A million times this. My family's dignity has been compromised by people pushing past us into lifts so many times my son soiled himself, we've had the motability car vandalised by an elderly man who thought a mum in her mid thirties with kids in the car had no right to use a blue badge bay. We've been tutted, sneered and stared at in public and on here I've been asked just why the taxpayer should find my family and why should I get paid for caring for my own children (3 kids all have multiple complex needs).

Only now I have a disability myself (rheumatoid arthritis) has the LA stepped up with a little bit of support to me and DH as carers but oh no more 'money for nothing' in the eyes of some.

Not to mention bloody John Lewis this morning, am thinking of starting a thread...

Fair point silver

I hate this view that everyone getting any kind of state support MUST live in penury and poverty to be 'deserving' - as a civilised society is this how we feel?

Benefits help support people - often enabling them to remain in work (CTC for example helped me do this) they are not always meant to keep people just above the poverty line

I think it's right that issues such as the situation U2 has explained should be aired and discussed. To me, the fundamental issue is "why shouldn't disabled people be allowed to save money they've been judged as being entitled to have? Why must they always be reduced to a bare minimum as if somehow lesser?" whereas, sadly, others will see it as "they have so much money thrown at them they can't spend it all while I'm struggling, how dare they?" without stopping to consider how restricted life must be if your needs are such that you're living in a supported home.

Xenia is now pontificating on the other thread. My fucking cup runneth over.

I totally agree with you Page.

Luis it's just all blah blah blaaaaaah though. It needs to change the record. Just treat it like the irritating, clueless buzz it really is.

Temporally Abled Body

Because at some point most probable you will view it from the other side and realise how stupid and short sighted you have been, at which point it is far to late.

I know I've avoided it for so long though. Really twisted my melons today.

Why isn't this getting more press? We mananged to take down the Tories over tax credits cuts, why not this?

Because the bottom line is people don't care muchome.

It is disgusting.

I said at the time of the CTC cuts that if it was the disabled they were going after there wouldn't be huge outcry and numerous threads.

I hoped I would be wrong. Unfortunately it seems I was right.

It may be blah blah blah, but sadly it's a mainstream opinion (IME), and seems to be the same opinion held by our government.

Phil - I know. Been fighting for over 6 years. On here too and got called a socialist frother and hysterical and that none of the disability cuts would happen.

I've given up to be honest. People comfort themselves with the picture of our family as grasping scum and the government dealing with 'the problem' (the problem being us and our survival).

I think it's seen as a lifestyle choice.
You choose to be disabled/have a disabled child, therefore you deal with it without being a scrounger.

Oh yes. Hahahahahaaaaa.
Put in my request for rheumatoid arthritis right after having 3 kids with multiple complex needs.

Cos I'm greedy.

Eyes rolling out of my head...

I cannot for the life of me understand why Xenia is still here when she is apparently a PBP.
Whatever she calls herself her views are hideous and she hasn't a clue

I've just said to DH that I can't fight anymore. I give in. I said the disabled would pay for the tax credits cuts not happening and it's coming true.

Even the majority comments on the Daily Fail article about these cuts are against them and are disgusted with the Govt. What does that tell you?

Maybe she misread the thread title

And prescription and dental charges are about to go up by well over the rate of inflation. That's being brought in very quietly.

Maybe she misread the thread title

I do wonder if this is going to be another apparent U-turn come Budget Day, with lots of "look at us listening to the electorate" to distract from something else even more unpopular with the general populace (probably to do with selling off the NHS).