Benefit Cheats (ADHD)

[lookitsjonno]

Absolutely fuming right now. I worked my ass off to pay my tax bill last month, only to find out someone I know has just won an appeal for £280 per month disability benefit as the child has been "diagnosed" with ADHD. Nobody has been to assess the child in daily life where she behaves no worse than any other child, and even the GP had to have his arm twisted by the parent to fulfill the diagnosis in the first place.

The amazing thing is, she was told to appeal at a hearing in person, only to be rang up and given it anyway! Oh, this is on top of the council house, tax credits, and single parent benefit.

Seems like this is common thing too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12359070

Meanwhile the hard working get dumped with cut after cut, really giving up the will to live any more.

Rant over.

 

[Redman]

Expect nothing from the state. Carry on regardless.

 

[estebanrey]

What extra cost (i.e. £280 a month) does having a kid with "ADHD" incur anyway?

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Someones is pulling your leg.

ADHD is award-able via DLA but it only attracts the lower rate care component - so £20.55 per week.

If someone has told you they are getting £280 per month then they are yanking your chain.

Plus - no combination of low, middle or higher rate - even when coupled with a lower or higher mobility component give a figure of £280 a month so it looks like they've pulled that figure out of thier *** as well.

 

[Smigly]

:/ wow.

I know someone who got pregnant straight after leaving school, never worked a day, has now just had her 3rd kid at 22, has a lovely council house, can afford to go and stay in log cabins in the lakes district, posted all over Facebook she was getting a pair of Christian louboutins off her partner (who does work I believe), but they turned out to be fakes anyway, but yeah basically she is always done up nice, has a house, 3 kids, never worked.

I would actually consider having kids now, I'm 23, but know that I'm not going to be able to afford it for years at least.

But I guess the "juicy" stories are the ones that make the press quite often in a bid to make the working hate the benefit claimers, even though the majority of people probably have genuine and valid claims, it's just the minority that ruin it.

 

[rah^]

What extra cost (i.e. £280 a month) does having a kid with "ADHD" incur anyway?

It's all those broken 42" LCD TV's they have to keep replacing

 

[cjgardens]

Your forgetting the new car they will get when they say it's hard work traveling

 

[lookitsjonno]

What extra cost (i.e. £280 a month) does having a kid with "ADHD" incur anyway?

Exactly my point, but aledgedly its so that the parent can spend more time with the child?

Someones is pulling your leg.

DLA is awardable via DLA but it only attracts the lower rate car componet - so £20.55 per week.

If someone has told you they are getting £280 per month then they are yanking your chain.

Hmm... I'm no expert but I hope your right.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Exactly my point, but aledgedly its so that the parent can spend more time with the child?

Someone is yanking your chain - don't believe everything you're told.

 

[lookitsjonno]

Someone is yanking your chain - don't believe everything you're told.

All i know is she had to go through some appeal to get it?

 

[mo9204]

It's all those broken 42" LCD TV's they have to keep replacing

is easy for them because they haven't waken up 5 in the morning, or worked all night.

 

[Rotty]

Exactly my point, but aledgedly its so that the parent can spend more time with the child?


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to pretend theiir kid has a proper problem instead of being a little brat which they are too idle to deal with ?

 

[Deleted member 66701]

All i know is she had to go through some appeal to get it?

More than likely - they turn down something like 80% of all claims hoping that claimants will just give up, even if they qualify and meet the criteria.

 

[Edrof]

As you get older, you learn to forget these injustices and try to simply focus on your own life. If you don't, you just become angrier and grumpier until you realise that you actually like The Daily Mail.

 

[Diagro]

You get money for having ADHD? Its diagnosed incorrectly anyway and ADHD is a good thing lol

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Hell, I have dual sensory loss; 1 eye only, about 10% eyesight left in that with -27 prescription and moderate/severe hearing loss on both sides and even I only get the lower DLA rate.

Oh well, we can only wait for DLA to change to PIP, then the OP's autism spectrum guy will then have to have a face-to-face before the appeal can pass.

 

[nath247]

The whole system is just messed up.

 

[Rotty]

The whole system is just messed up.

unfortunately the dossers and scroungers cause the problems, the government fail to deal with it and as a result genuine cases sometimes lose out

 

[nath247]

unfortunately the dossers and scroungers cause the problems, the government fail to deal with it and as a result genuine cases sometimes lose out

This.

As much as the new PIP system replacing DLA is going to be a step forward, the genuine people will still lose out.

 

[lookitsjonno]

Hell, I have dual sensory loss; 1 eye only, about 10% eyesight left in that with -27 prescription and moderate/severe hearing loss on both sides and even I only get the lower DLA rate.

Oh well, we can only wait for DLA to change to PIP, then the OP's autism spectrum guy will then have to have a face-to-face before the appeal can pass.

Amazing isn't it!

Oh just to clarify the same person has the typical full Sky HD package, the latest iPhone and a iPad 3G.