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Disabled Stevenage man needs foodbanks to survive after benefits cut

October 10, 2014   benefits, Carers, Featured Article, ukcuts

A disabled man has been forced to rely on foodbanks to survive after going months without receiving benefits.

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Alan Ogden lives in Brent Court, Stevenage and suffers from Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis, which affects a person’s breathing, and a fused right wrist which he cannot bend.

The 53-year-old applied for Personal Independence Payment, which replaced Disability Living Allowance, in October last year, and Job Seekers Allowance in August – but is yet to receive a penny in either payment.

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‘Cuts forcing English councils to limit social care’

September 14, 2014   Carers, Featured Article, Older care, Social care, ukcuts

95-year-old Cyril Gillam no longer gets home help visits

14 September 2014 Last updated at 03:44

Almost 90% of councils in England no longer offer social care to people whose needs are ranked low to moderate, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass) has said.

The group is warning cuts are making the care system “unsustainable”.

The government says councils have been given an extra £1.1bn to help protect social care this year.

But charities say hundreds of thousands of people are struggling without help.

When someone applies for social care, their needs are determined as either critical, substantial, moderate or low.

In recent years the number of councils able to help those at the lower end of the scale has gone down as they struggle to balance their budgets.

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New research says many carers have reached ‘breaking point’

September 11, 2014   Carers, ukcuts

Carers are “pushed to the brink,”

First published 01:35 Thursday 11 September 2014 in Bradford Bradford Telegraph and Argus: Photograph of the Author by Rob Lowson, T&A Reporter

MANY people acting as carers for older or disabled loved ones have reached “breaking point”, new research has revealed.

A study of more than 5,000 carers by the charity Carers UK has found that six out of ten are being “pushed to the brink,” with a quarter requiring some form of medical treatment due to their role, 63 per cent suffering from depression, and 79 per cent from some form of anxiety.

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