Originally Posted by CAROLWHITIE (Post 34856833)

So I am fully justified with my comments.

Originally Posted by CAROLWHITIE (Post 34856833)

I look around my country today an see the people in need suffering. I look around my country today, one which I have been led to believe is a democracy.

I KNOW THAT IN A DEMOCRACY IT IS THE PEOPLE THAT CONTROL THE POLITICS. I LOOK AT SUCCESSIVE GOVERNMENTS, MAKES NO DIFFERENCE IF THEY ARE ONE OR THE OTHER AND THEN ............................................I conclude that ignorant complacent plebeians who know no different, must have voted for them as no sensible people would have.

This is clearly manifest by two terms of labour and three of the Cons previously.

Surely given the current stae of our nation today only a real dumbo would fail to see this.

As for the duck I never said get rid of Labour over this I said get rid of the lot of thieving barstewards as they are all robbing you blind and we have not even looked and civil service expenses yet.

Look if then peasantry is happy with this situation and simply want to ignore it, then thats fine by me...just get on with it its your suicide and that of your loved ones, and not mine as I am already wised up to what is happy and made my provisions.

We are hardly what one would describe as being an enlightened electorate....we even let Brown sign our country away to Europe when he sneakily signed the Treaty of Lisbon over XMAS last year and one, and clearly to give away our sovereign powers to another nation is Treason under the Bill of Right 1688 I believe. Yet most of the public are too thick to even bother to know this or protest. Nu Labour promised you all a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon, but Nu Labour knows you are all too thick to care, too busy with footie and the telle.

So I am fully justified with my comments.

Originally Posted by Stuart C (Post 34856840)

You are also straying off topic.


Now, this is directed at everyone. The topic is the Disability Living Allowance. It is not whether doctors or MPs are or are not corrupt and it's certainly not about the definition of libel or slander.


This is a friendly warning: Carry on with the off topic posts and we will be taking further action.

Originally Posted by CAROLWHITIE (Post 34856878)

<snip>For those of you who think that DLA is straight forward look again, but good good luck. For those of you who know its a minefield you will know the pitfalls.<snip>

Originally Posted by Thomas T (Post 34856887)

I had a bad time with the forms for DLA, luckily I had someone from sight concern out to help me.

He also helped me when my sight got worse to re do them and got me through my appeal.

No doubt I AM thick because if I'd filled the forms out I'd have got smeg all.

Mind you I understand the questions have changed since my appeal came through last year.

Originally Posted by CAROLWHITIE (Post 34856833)

So I am fully justified with my comments.

Originally Posted by RizzyKing (Post 34855957)

How successful you will be in claiming DLA comes down to how you answer the questions on the form it is that simple you have to look at the questions in a very non specific way and answer accordingly. When i claimed first and second time i was told that pain and suffering in doing an activity was irrelevent and it was purely down to whether i could do it. As an example the how far can you walk well i can walk fifty metres and that was all they wanted to know they didn't care how much pain or discomfort i was in doing that purely that i could walk it.

So you have to take pain and discomfort into account yourself when answering their questions and if doing anything causes you pain then you say no you cannot do it even though you can. Adopting that approach i was able to finally get the level of DLA that everyone in the medical community that deals with me felt i should be getting. I despise the current system because it plays on the pride and stubbornness of claimants in not wanting to fully admit how limited we are and how much we struggle to do even simple things.

Originally Posted by Stuart C (Post 34856840)

You are also straying off topic.


Now, this is directed at everyone. The topic is the Disability Living Allowance. It is not whether doctors or MPs are or are not corrupt and it's certainly not about the definition of libel or slander.


This is a friendly warning: Carry on with the off topic posts and we will be taking further action.

Originally Posted by Nugget (Post 34856884)

As the husband of someone who used to deal with people who were in the process of applying for DLA, she's advised me that the process of application is in no way a minefield, and is actually very straight forward.

In fact, I have it on her (very good and knowledgable) word that, in the majority of cases, people who have problems with actually getting DLA is specifically down to them not filling the forms in correctly, or not actually answering the questions that are asked. Maybe it's because they're thick :shrug:

Originally Posted by rogermevans (Post 34857082)

you know not what you are talking about i suggest rather that taking the word of any one you sit down with out help and try and fill one in

the forms are designed to make it hard often hiding the fact that question don't all have to be answered and that some questions are not what they seem to be.

and you point of your knowledgeable wife is the point we make the forms shouldn't be stopping people getting DLA they should be helping them get the help not putting something else they need to learn how to do like a civil servant to get what they are entitled to and NEED

just for example the how far can you walk question which implies you have to tell them and doesn't explain that any distance after you get pain is not suposed to be counted or in my case doesn't apply as as soon as i am having an attack i cant walk

i have had a very knowledgeable civil servant turn up to tell me that i should still put a figure to who i politely told to go away ;) quoting the relevant legislation on the walking test :)

the forms are hard especial for those doing them the first time and those who are not used to civil servant gobbledy gook