Ah the free £1,000 nonsense.
Let’s leave out many parents of children with additional needs cannot work full time, even half time as it were because there is no provision for SEND children outside school, no adequate childminder/wraparound etc care.
So one salary families or single parent with very limited employment opportunities (who if qualifying as carer’s can only work 16 hours a week at low wages or they lose Carer’s Allowance) are allegedly getting FREE money - in a welfare State that also provides benefits for funerals, bereaved family, the unemployed, the sick or disabled who cannot work, the pension age, maternity statutory pay, statutory sick pay etc… Just parents with disabled children getting “free” money, while the others mentioned get what… paid for money?
Let’s ignore that not every family with a child or children with additional needs qualifies for Universal Credit (mine does not).
Let’s ignore facts such as:
Incontinence pads - a necessity for children who are doubly incontinent. At the cost (in my case) of usually £14 per 14 pads (2 days supply), over a month’s period is (in a 30 day month) of £210.
A cost that no parent of a typical child has to fund past being a baby or toddler.
Lets ignore the cost of washing 2-3 loads of washing from various bodily secretions or drying in winter or electricity to do this or the electricity costs of additional hoists or hospital beds etc.
Motability cars - the FREE 🙄 gem of complaints. Requiring noon-refundable deposits of anything from £4,000 -£24,000 depending on the requirements of the user.
All of the Mobility component of DLA or PIP goes directly to the charity (Motability).
DLA - once Motability payment is removed at source is £400 approximately per month. Which obviously covers clothing, shoes, school needs, and social needs (basic human needs) etc for her … but there is no salary replacement for my lost earnings.
Travel to SEND schools requires additional time and petrol - or those free taxis that concern so many (prescribed in law by the way for children to be able to get to school safely).
If I can get a FREE £1,000 a month can some of you clever people who believe this is the case please tell me how to do it?
Id love not to be in debt because my child is disabled.
I would love to not have to face paying £16,000 for a powered wheelchair (still don’t know how I will) or whatever to Motability for her next WAV (due in a year) when I work 10 hours a week in term time only.
I am qualified to PhD level and have had plenty of full time well paid jobs. Now I am awake from 2am most nights and as per the above, broke.
I’d love to have the luxury of being a goady cunt because I can’t stand to see someone (less able) else get “something” that I don’t.