DD severely disabled. How can she make money from home?

[Lele101]

My daughter doesn’t claim anything at all, my mil has money and has been financially supporting her essentials. Rent/bills/food

but my daughter wants to make her own money. At least like a side hustle. Any work from home jobs.

she finished school with GCSE’s and doesn’t have any qualifications.

She recently became disabled. She can rarely leave the house and doctors think it’s going to be a at least a few years till she can walk/move her body much again.

do you guys have any ideas?

What is your budget? Training/education costs money... granted, it makes more, but it requires the initial investment

A cyber course? DH looked into this and it was all from home, studying and roles. The employer he looked at sent a car to collect staff when they had to come to the office, once month.

At 25, what's her work experience/employment history, skills, interests?

She needs to get connected with the JobCentre and apply for benefits. Does she have an OT who could advise on things she could realistically explore, both for her recovery and her future employability?

If she can't really move or do much, then she really must claim disability benefits. Her not doing so isn't some heroic act. It's great your family can support her but she needs her own money. And this is the way to get it.

Once she's got those benefits she can be supported into work, maybe part time. Is there a charity relating to her disability she could contact?

Of course she can study etc as well. There's lots of distance learning options.

But it's really important she gets what she's entitled to in the way of government support. That will help her independence in the long run.

Open university is running some free IT courses, worth a look?

It would be worth looking into benefits for her to see if that contributes to her national insurance contributions for later entitlement to benefits. It also would provide evidence of what and where she has been for future employers. Some employers need proof of his you have spent any breaks in employment/education.
I would recommend looking at the Open university, many other universities offer online options now but in my experience the open university offer much better support for students who may not have much previous experience of study.

If she can knit or crochet, there is a marketplace on Etsy for hand- knitted items, especially for baby items!

Firstly, your daughter doesn’t have no qualifications. She has excellent GCSE results. These are level 2 qualifications, so she can apply for any level 3 qualification. These include:

• A levels
• BTECs
• T Levels
• Advanced Apprenticeships.

You haven’t given her age, but it sounds like she might be a bit older than 16/17. She may, therefore, be able to do a university access course. Have a look at the Open University access courses to see if any look suitable. They specialise in distance learning and are very good at part-time courses too. www.open.ac.uk/courses/do-it/access?ps_kw=open%20university%20access%20course&cid=sem-9237400975&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4Pnp2fDDjAMVRZJQBh02_S7UEAAYASAAEgJXAfD_BwE

It is great that she wants to either earn money or study. Regardless of the future of benefits, these are worthwhile endeavours that give purpose and may help protect her mental.

Lastly, you haven’t detailed what is wrong and how limited her movement is, but many people now operate small cottage industry businesses via platforms like Etsy.

OP, my DD has an invisible disability. And she can move just fine. She has been on DLA/PIP since she was 10. As she’s now 18 she’s also LCWRA.

It makes no sense whatsoever not to apply. They don’t fine or rebuke you if they decide she’s not entitled! But in any case there’s no chance they’d say she’s not entitled: she’d certainly get pretty much full marks on the mobility component.

I wish her all the best with her ongoing work and/or study.

If you go on Indeed you can search for remote only jobs. Good luck!

There are organisations that offer online A level courses. You'd need advice because she would have to take the exam at a centre, usually a 6th form college locally.

She would enjoy/like to do anything really. She doesn’t mind. Especially maybe tech/computers/finance
she is 25.
as long as it pays, she’d like to do it, doesn’t matter what

I didn't appreciate she was 25. You suggested she'd just done her GCSEs recently.

What work did she do from 16 to being 25? She did her GCSEs almost 10 years ago.

What work experience has she?

There are lots of jobs that are working remotely from home.
Has she looked online or registered with an agency?

There are online distance courses for A levels but they cost money- several hundreds of pounds per subject. Is that feasible for her?
Unless she knows what she wants to do next, it may not be the route forward.

She'd be better off learning a skill as A levels don't guarantee a job.

Hi OP,

Im guessing it is FND? You must submit a claim. The application is hard because you have to write all about the stuff your dd can’t do, and it is long and you need all your diagnosis letters, but it is doable. PIP is specifically for disability, not the toll of age. So elderly relatives struggling has no bearing on your dd’s application - it’s about what a typical person of the same age would be able to achieve.

You will get PIP for FND, especially if she is struggling to leave the house. PIP is an entry to other support, not just financial. You also must apply for an EHCP - this process is fairly straightforward. You can ask for things like online tuition. Again, you might be rejected, but the application is doable, just a bit heart breaking. It will be worth it to get the support your daughter needs, the local authority will instruct professionals like an educational psychologist. Your daughter is clearly bright - it would be great for her to achieve an A Level (s) during this difficult time. I wouldn’t be encouraging her to work yet - I’m assuming she’s 16?

Please support your daughter to make use of this time - whether that’s study or following alternative things she may be able to do (learn to draw, a musical instrument, etc). With the money from PIP this can be achieved with a home tutor or online.

If it is FND, do DM - we are in the same boat.

But if she's severely disabled and physically unable to move her body much, her disability will be evident surely.

Read ALL by OP- her daughter is 25.

Has she worked since she was 16?
If she has she will have skills that can be used again.

What has she done in the last 9 years after her GCSEs?

Definitely look into software testing if she's computer savy.
Have her take the ISTQB foundation and she should be able to find some remote work or apprenticeship.

She needs to apply for benefits, as she will then be eligible for work coaching and support to get work, including freelance from home.

If your MIL happens to give her gifts which supplement those benefits then that is OK. But establishing her right to these benefits might open the door to other opportunities for her.

Depends on the disability doesn’t it ? I have rheumatoid arthritis and raynauds syndrome. Can’t hold an iron - too heavy and aggravates my shoulder and the raynauds affects grip. Painful and quite dangerous. If OP’s DD has restricted movement she’s either not capable of doing it or would possibly be in severe pain as a result.

If she can use office programs, what about virtual assistant?

If she likes the idea of finance, then she can train to do AAT or CIMA from home. You can work 100% from home doing book keeping or accounting.
I work with a london practice that has a dozen or so work from home book keepers working for them. There are several practices now that have this business model, plus the team can work whenever they want as long as they get their deliverables done each month, and meet any client deadlines. Lots of people work around children and school runs, but it would also be practical for someone managing fatigue etc.

I have worked from home for about 20 years, have a few health issues myself, all invisible, its the only way I can manage things.

Many companies that use call centres employ people working from home.

You seem to be doing everything for her here.
Can she come online and discuss it herself so it's easier for posters to help?

I supported my DD for 5 years and last year when contracting dried up I had to cut her free. She gets a tiny amount of UC and has been signed off too poorly to work for nearly a year - mobility issues - and has put an application in for pip but like your DD wants to work. I do hope the £1b support for the disabled to work helps both of them.

To date my DD hasn't seen anything she could do, but I've been pushing her towards admin/analyst/customer services roles (she has good experience of all of these types of work) initially until she completes an IT qualification - she also hasn't found a course yet, but that seems to be the sector that will remain remote working.

Good luck to your DD @Lele101 I am sure there are jobs out there for non technical remote workers.

She could do something like answering the phone for NHS 111.

My brother would qualify for pip but doesn't claim either. He also manages to work.

PIP people look at paperwork . If she has relevant paperwork which proves her diagnosis that what you nee to send to. If she is so bad that she can’t leave the house it is a serious condition however invisible it is and she should apply for PIP. If you struggle to fill the form you can ask for advice here, at local Carers centre, at Citizens bureau or at the charity/ organisation relevant to her diagnosis.