advice, please

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By meg mackenzie

Re: advice, please
Fri 16 May 2008 18:31

Your local citizens advice bureau or local council should have a welfare officer who can do an assessment to ensure you are getting all the benefits you are entitled to. I have carer allowance for my husband and my dad has attendance allowance to use to pay for the extra care he required over and above the input from his homecarer (free as we are in Scotland) for 11hours a week personal care and 2x2hours a week from Crossroads. Sometimes the help does not need to be financial for instance the time Crossroads spend with dad guarantees that I can have that as time out with hubby or alone is he is well enough to be left.

Hope this helps

Take care
Meg

By Greebo

Re: advice, please
Sat 17 May 2008 10:46

It does somertimes feel like running hard just to stay in the same place doesn't it? We'd just finished paying off the replacement mattress and the washing machine when the fridge and the (separate) freezer) died in the same month last year.

Make sure everyone in your entire household is getting everything they should - including maybe the student discount on council tax (it's only 25% if your son gets it, but still worth asking about). It may also be worth seeing if there are any bursaries you could ask for - there's a book and a website listing these.

The CAB often has a financial section. It's not just for people deep in debt, they can also help you work out a budget you've got a chance of sticking to, negotiate repayment of debts etc. If people at the CAB in your area don't do this, they'll know somebody who does.