DLA- the care component

DLA- the care component What am I supposed to do with it?!! Rate Topic:

#1 Lucydog

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Posted 25 June 2006 - 07:50 AM

I was thinking about this the other day....as you do, and wondered what everyone else thinks. I get higher rate mobility and lower rate care. Now for the care component of DLA I get £16 a week, because I need help as they put it. So what does the state think Im going to be able to do with £16 from a care point of view? What is the point of giving this little amount of money to anyone who has care issues? I probably couldnt even get a cleaner for 2 hours a week on this money so why do they bother? Its not that I dont want the 16 squid its just that it seems to me that the whole care part of DLA is totally bizarre! Oh but then we could all rant about the weird system of DLA couldnt we?!!!
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#2 mttb14

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Posted 25 June 2006 - 09:39 AM

Hi Lucy,

Don't get me started on this one, the whole system is totally bizarre, with no logic behind the forms or the benefit. :ranting:

Maybe, if they had a few more disabled or wheelchair user MP's or assistants or even if they actually spoke to the people the benefit is supposed to help, they would finally have an understanding of the true needs and issues this benefit is supposed to help.

I will stop here before the top of my head explodes and my brains get splattered, as it is really annoying me, as you already know.

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Posted 25 June 2006 - 12:16 PM

I agree with you both, I get high rate care component but its still a pathetic amount. Not sure disabled MP's help, what has Blunkett done for the blind? Also, when Norman Tebitts wife was made tetraplegic in the Brighton bombing I think 'Norm' was party chairman and it changed nothing. In fact I always wondered who looked after his wife while he continued his career!? I wonder if she struggles like most others.
Anyway, its a bizarre system and seems to get worse..........not sure it'll get better. All you can say is that its quite a bit better than many other countries.

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Posted 25 June 2006 - 01:26 PM

they're probabpy trying to placate people lucy,but it only makes matters worse cos such a miserable amount would only buy dog food for the week :badmood:

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Posted 26 June 2006 - 02:31 PM

I used to be on lower rate care as the criteria was I couldn't make a cooked meal myself - it DID cover the extra cost of microwave meals, ready chopped salad etc BUT what about everything else I couldn't do ??
By the way, Luce, DLA is never supposed to take housework into account - but now my local social services does not provide "skivvying" how else do I pay a cleaner??!!!!!!!