budget and sn stuff

[herjazz]

so DLA to be medical assessment after 2013 - what dyou reckon to that? I reckon if its coming from the paeds and proffs involved in yr child already that might not be too bad. Least there wouldn't be that friggin horrid form. But if its some independent panel that assess based on one day - eek (though tbh either way wouldn't affect us as dd has v limited function across the board. Could see how this could be v shit for others mind)

Can see what they're getting at with this - make it simpler cough and get rid of them scrounging old scrotes you always see pics of in the paper playing golf and NOT BEING DISABLED ALways staggers me that people could fiddle DLA anyway. I've found it a right norse to claim - that's with a profoundly disabled child

also - I thought the severe disability element of CTC wasn't dependent on income. Can anyone elighten? Will this be affected by 40 grand cap?

thoughts and reactions please ladies

Hi, i am married with 5 children, husband works fulltime and i care for our eldest severely disabled daughter who has quad CP (she doesn't go to school) she recieves DLA at highest rate and i get Carers Allowance. Also one of our son's has ASD (haven't applied for DLA for him yet).
With the cuts in tax credits too i am really worried about what will happen with DLA and Carer's Allowance.
I've been trying to keep up with whats been reported on it all so far but as it doesn't give specifics i'm finding it hard to work out what exactly is going to happen with DLA and CA, from what i've read so far though it seems worrying.

its only the £545 family element thats affected by the £40k cap

I think it could work either way. It might actually go in the favour of people who find the forms a pig to fill out and might actually reduce the bureaucracy that seems to be involved in the cycle of having claims under-evaluated, appealing etc that seems to happen for so many people who clearly do deserve the award they're appealing for. I have a high educational level and a medical and educational background and find the forms bloody hard work. That doesn't say much for the accessibility for the average person.

I just mentioned this in an email to DH and commented that I bet a lot of people take medication breaks for the assessments, though!

As for the CTC, the disability and severe disability premiums are reduced over some threshold or other along with the child premium. We're on a combined income a little over £30K (including carers allowance for me) and get most of the disability premium for the boys, though quite a bit has been scaled down already. I'm guessing that scaling down will happen at a faster rate than it currently does.

DS1 has AS and when he melts down is a danger to himself; when not in meltdown seems like the nicest kid ever

NBo assessor will meet hoim once and maintain his DLA!

School and statement back us up but this is seriously panicking me.

Well my paed said 'apply for DLA'.

Wouldn't it be better all around if whe simply wrote a letter and said 'give this person DLA!'?

Except, possibly there would be target quotas for them to come under

I'm up a creek without a paddle either way re: DLA. Posted more about it in the other thread there is, but suffice to say if mine needs renewing I probably won't get it

why lollipop?

Well, I can't drive due to sight issues. I'm not blind, but I can't pass the numberplate test to drive. So I get lower rate mobility to help with the cost of trains, taxis and the extra petrol my parents currently use to ferry me about, as well as buses during the times when my pass is renewed. I think they'll look at that and say I can earn that money with a job, but when you start in TV/Film work, you don't earn loads so alongside rent etc I'd probably struggle. As I say, far more detail on the DLA assessments thread.

The medical assessment doesn't worry me as it was the paed who said to apply for dd and when I finally did and got medium she was always egging me on to appeal for higher rate (which I didn't - too much hassle and too much stuff on my plate at the time.) So maybe it would have been easier without that god awful form to fill up.

but I thought dla had nowt to do with what you earn?

and lower rate mobilty is not that much anyway -sounds like you are using it to get around as you need to. Can't see why that would change unless yr sight issues were to

and wow that you can earn anything let alone not much starting in tv / film work now. I thought it would have gone from working for free to paying to work ;)

and maybe they could sack off the amount of times you have to renew for conditions that have no chance of changing

yess believe it or not, the last 3 yrs have not seen her brain repair or chromosomes change..

herjazz, it isn't based on earnings, I was just saying that if they stoped my DLA, I'd struggle with the cost on a typical starting salary. Oh the joys of wanting to become a TV editor lol