How disabled do you have to be then?

asim18 said:
This really. I don't see how a broken leg is an automatic entitlement to get a car.
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Wonder how long that would be the mindset if we started removing the odd limb here and there.
 
OldCoals said:
Surely we should be supporting people like this, not making their life more difficult in order to save a few thousand pounds?
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not necessarily - we've got a finite budget and it needs to be targeted, if she fits the criteria then sure - perhaps someone bodged the assessment

but if people can walk a certain distance and get public transport then there does need to be some criteria set for a free car and it probably should be quite strict

I think grants to pay for the cost of converting/adapting a car should be the go to solution in most cases
 
Tephnos said:
Some brutal people in this thread!
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Did you really expect sympathy from the tory loving forum?

The tories have it in for the disabled, poor and elderly.

End of the day the Tories are gunna Tory.
 
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My wife is disabled( has a rare muscle wasting disease) and has to spend 1 day every 2 weeks in hospital getting pumped full of a Massive amount of intrevinus drugs to stop her muscles wasting away and being confined to a wheelchair, and I fully expect her to be rejected for the higher rate of pip when her name is called forward to transfer over from DLA, the reason being she can walk for more than the specified distance (10m unaided) set down by the DWP, her condition will not go away and is incurable, it hasn't changed in the last 20 years but the goalposts have(she has bad days when she can't get out of bed but them days are not taken into account, they judge the person on how they appear Infront of atos on the day) I understand people abuse the system and they are the ones that need targeting but they seem to be able to slip through the net and play the system when the people that genuinely need it are the ones targeted first.
 
woppy101 said:
My wife is disabled( has a rare muscle wasting disease) and has to spend 1 day every 2 weeks in hospital getting pumped full of a Massive amount of intrevinus drugs to stop her muscles wasting away and being confined to a wheelchair, and I fully expect her to be rejected for the higher rate of pip when her name is called forward to transfer over from DLA, the reason being she can walk for more than the specified distance (10m unaided) set down by the DWP, her condition will not go away and is incurable, it hasn't changed in the last 20 years but the goalposts have(she has bad days when she can't get out of bed but them days are not taken into account, they judge the person on how they appear Infront of atos on the day) I understand people abuse the system and they are the ones that need targeting but they seem to be able to slip through the net and play the system when the people that genuinely need it are the ones targeted first.
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Sucks doesn't it, I expect my lifetime DLA award to be withdrawn when they get around to forcing me to take the PIP test, not because I've grown back some limbs or gotten over a genetic defect but because the score sheets been re-written by incompetent politicians >.>
 
ubersonic said:
Sucks doesn't it, I expect my lifetime DLA award to be withdrawn when they get around to forcing me to take the PIP test, not because I've grown back some limbs or gotten over a genetic defect but because the score sheets been re-written by incompetent politicians >.>
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Yep totally agree, unless you have no legs it will be impossible to get higher rate mobility. we are not burying our heads in the sand though we are saving as hard as possible so we have the funds available to buy the car we have or an adapted car when the day comes and if by some miracle she does get enough points it gives us a bit extra cash.
 
ubersonic said:
Sucks doesn't it, I expect my lifetime DLA award to be withdrawn when they get around to forcing me to take the PIP test, not because I've grown back some limbs or gotten over a genetic defect but because the score sheets been re-written by incompetent politicians >.>
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I disagree, they were actually quite smart and conniving in how they went about setting up the new scoring. They set out to reduce the amount of people being awarded and that's exactly what they've achieved.
 
and they probably do need to reduce it - we've got a big deficit and giving away free cars isn't really a priority

adapting cars would perhaps be more reasonable in a lot of situations
 
Locky said:
Did you really expect sympathy from the tory loving forum?

The tories have it in for the disabled, poor and elderly.

End of the day the Tories are gunna Tory.
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Add in the eastern Europeans, gypsies, homosexuals and Muslims. Just add in the Jews. Many OCUkers would have loved a Nazi victory!
 
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