Category Archives: disability
Disabled person’s care cash stopped after Council declared them dead !
A disabled Norfolk person had their care cash stopped after a council official incorrectly recorded them as being dead.
Richard Wheeler Friday, July 6, 2012
6:30 AM
A disabled Norfolk person had their care cash stopped after a council official incorrectly recorded them as being dead.
The individual also had their blue badge disabled parking pass cancelled after the error, which has forced Norfolk County Council to review how it notes deaths of patients.
Care staff are due to be issued with new instructions telling them to making sure they write down who tells them of a person’s death and how it happened. The culprit for the initial error has not been found.
PIP and is set to replace DLA for working age claimants from April 2013
Out with Disability Living Allowance and in with Personal Independence Payment
Independent DWP benefits’ advice by Jon Kingham, welfare rights advisor. Jon has practiced welfare rights and housing law for over 15–years in the voluntary sector where he has used his considerable knowledge and experience working with people with mental health issues. Unfortunately, Jon is unable to enter into personal correspondence in regards to DWP enquiries.
As you may be aware the Government, as part of its so–called welfare reforms are going to abolish Disability Living Allowance [DLA]. Its replacement will be called Personal Independence Payment or PIP and is set to replace DLA for working age claimants from April 2013. Whilst no new claims for DLA can be made after this time, existing claimants will be reassessed for PIP from between April 2013 to April 2017. This will be the case even if you have a life or indefinite award of DLA. PIP will have many similarities with DLA and, in particular, it will have two components: a daily living component [similar to the current care component] and a mobility component.
Platform for disabled anglers opens at Rackerhayes Ponds
Disabled and their carers enabled to ‘go fishing.’
A platform which will enable disabled anglers to use a fishing site in Devon has opened.
The £16,000 project at Rackerhayes Ponds, in Newton Abbot, has been funded by the Environment Agency from the selling of rod licences.
The work has included building a 10m (33ft) long wooden platform, access ramp and cutting into the bank to create a footpath.
The six ponds at the site are used by the Newton Abbot Fishing Association.
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