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Despite a tiny increase in PIP and ESA and the massive cost of living increase my local authority is asking for over £120 a month towards my care. I’ve never paid before and genuinely can’t afford it. I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place and just don’t know what to do.
Local authority was charging hundreds of pounds a week for an hour of care a day . Just to be able to eat and take medication. Was not affordable and was so insanely stressful when carers would turn up without masks and having been smoking in their cars. Having an asthma attack after lunch, and being told there's nothing they could do to change it is not the service we pay for. I was told they would take all my daily living pip and universal credit, but would leave me my mobility allowance. Well that's nice unless you want to have a vehicle, then that's taken by the motability scheme and we can just live on stardust and thoughts.
I'm in tears. This is so close to home. PIP doesn't cover the extra costs, so despite being ill and exhausted, I'm retraining so I can go back out into the workforce. This cost of living crisis has broken me.
I am in the same situation, I do not know if I would be able to cope though, scary to be condemned to poverty and not being able to pay for my therapies
What a beautiful family! The guys are right that they are the lucky ones, I have a brother with an intellectual disability and he makes me the happiest person in the world!
You are so good and you're an amazing gymnast! You're so beautiful and such an inspiration to all that. No matter if you're disabled or you don't think your worth it don't worry what they say because y'all gorgeous and all worth it!
DMV should not be able to discriminate and deny people a license. Don't even need a license to travel or drive. It's a scam anyways. Pure SCAM! If I ain't got a license I'm not showing up for court for a ticket, because I never agreed to their rules.
I'm so glad she decided to stick it out and do gymnastics despite her disability. She followed her dream and that's all that matters. A simple diagnosis isn't going to make her stop what she loves.
I HAVE A HOME VISIT 20TH OCT NEXT FRIDAY FOR PIP ASSESSMENT ANT A CLUE HOW IT WILL GO AS JUST FOUND OUT AFTER FILLING LETTER FORM I NOW HAVE SCIATICA WAS TOLD THIS BY A DOCTOR AT HOSPITAL LAST MONDAY PAINS IN ARM BUT THIS INFORMATION WAS NOT ADDED TO MY PIP FORM AS CAME AFTER I FILLED FROM IN SO I PROBEY WONT STAND A CHANCE NEED TO WAIT N SEE WHEN THY COME
Hi Lyn I'm so glad that you enjoyed the video, we think it's great too! You're absolutely right that the voiceover is not permanently captioned, well pointed out. If you turn on closed captions however using the icon at the bottom of the video, this will display captions for the voiceover and everything else as well. I hope that helps! Thanks Milo (Scope)
Does he take sugar?. So happens, we are out, people speak above my head to my wife "how does he manage" My stock answer is "It's my legs that don't work, not my ears.
I have CIDP and my husband has Arthrogryposis. We are both wheelchair users and I have many issues with fatigue and headaches, especially around IvIg time. We wanted a life we loved and we found it. We, together, live alone in an apartment with our dog. We need many assistive aids to ensure our independence. We realize others might want these aids and started a website www.bearpawsf.com. We also have a blog www.loveinthelandfgiants.com sharing our story.
Nearly at the end of this video, I am genuinely feeling sorry for the actual bloke if this is one actual story. In fact, I would be pissed scared to meet him. Seriously.
Hate crimes against the disabled are at an all time high hotspots of discrimination are government departments and transport. The new 2018 disability discrimination act will be the adoption of new UN treaty obligations after the 2016/7 review. These may include criminal offenses for withdrawing disability assistance and failure to provide resources when asked to do so.The police will be given automated fine powers and criminal warning letters to directors,civil servants and individuals who harrase disabled people.Further plans may see that all government organisations and contractors will need to demonstrate 10 % quotas of disabled people in the workforce. Whilst those disabled people who fall under the equalities act part a may have the automatic reporting of any inccident ivolving a severely disabled person referred to a magistrate. Here is an expample recently by an operating company The speciially adapted train type is leaving in 15 mins to my desination Could I purchase a disabled single ticket today for my destination? Train company I am not selling you a disabled ticket Passenger why not? Train company...because you are disabled!!! Passenger..... here is my government registration and ID for very disabled passengers regulated by parliment and UN. could I have escorted travel to my disnation? Train company..you cant travel because you are disabled. Could I have assistannce in getting to my train in the next five minuted as it will leave without me? Train company...no...then runs off leaving the passenger with no assistance. Train company.... We will only give assistance if you by a premium ticket...(this is again against the law) as assistance is not dependent on a ticket. Police is then called to to report criminal harrasement against a blind disabled person. The intended delay maybe decided as intentional leaving a destination delay of 3.5 hours and a tripe to a and e. Its amazing what happens when out of earshop of the authorities. The 2018 act should change this into an arrestable offense by the staff under the nurenburg rules. The courts are zero tollerant to this type of incident.
pip is a witch hunt too maney poeple are on it some arentaking th e p out of the system all the rst sufffer the crap being scanned by benifit police state theres no support on dla remamed pip no education accses yuor block from doi g anything no future on it thing must change time do amarch number 10 and demonstrate
