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Benefits in older age (III)
With August finally dazzling us with a reminder of how it should feel, I wrinkle my nose at its sunshine, squint at the computer screen a...
Benefits in older age (II)
Most people will - in older age - be receiving Retirement Pension. Some will also have income in the form of personal or work-relate...
Tagged with: Pension CreditBenefits in older age (I)
Hello and greetings again from south west Wales, where fine, horizontal rain is gilding the lilies and the slugs... Well, having spent the last th...
When youngsters are ill (III)
I come, finally, this week, to the last of three blogs looking at the financial help which may be available to families when children or young...
When youngsters are ill (II)
As I mentioned last week, the only 'extra' benefit a child or young person can qualify for themselves when unwell is Disability Living Allowan...
When youngsters are ill (I)
However hopeful the prognosis may be - and thankfully for the majority it is very hopeful these days - it must be amongst the very hardes...
When decisions go wrong (II)
Greetings again from west Wales on one of those days when the weather can't decide what it wants to do. One minute the sun threatens to brighten, t...
When decisions go wrong (I)
Getting older - and experiencing more and more 'senior moments', I'm constantly glad that to err is human. I sometimes think then that the DWP must...
Moving from Incapacity to ESA
June rolls into July, the birds take time out from singing for their annual moult and the countryside's starting to turn that dark shade ...
Budget (2) - DLA and the rest
Not many things make me fall off my chair any more... but as I sat listening to last week's emergency budget, I had to hold on tight as the Ch...
Budget (1) - payments for children
With the country consumed by the World Cup, it seems appropriate, once more, to write a blog of two halves... Over the next tw...
Tagged with: child tax credit , child benefitOne off Costs - the Social Fund (2)
Hello from Wales again, where summer is smiling at last - I hope it is for you too. If you cast your minds back a fortnight, you'll reme...
One off costs - the Social Fund
Warm wishes once more on a damp and chilly day here… lovely weather for ducks, I suppose, and probably just as well, given that a couple see...
Tagged with: community care grants , loansDLA, AA and changing needs...
I’m going to look, this week, at a question I find myself being asked quite frequently – ‘I already get some DLA (or Attendance A...
Tagged with: Attendance Allowance , DLAIn-work help (II)
Having blogged about the theory of how benefits interact with work last week, I thought it might be helpful to look at it in practice… Kare...
In-work help
Greetings once more from sunny but cold west wales. It may be May but you may not notice! Most people I meet through Maggie's are still ...
Tagged with: permitted work , working tax creditTravel costs to hospital
Many people's only query when they meet me at Maggie's is to do with whether they can get help with the cost of getti...
Tagged with: hospital , travel costsMeans-tested help (2)
follows on from Means-tested help 1... The benefits I'm covering here today are Income Support, Income related Employment and Support Al...
Means-tested help (1)
When not wrapped up in the world of advice, I unwind by tending to the needs of a large garden by day and then gathering my&nbs...
DLA, AA and cancer
If I was asked to nominate a 'favourite' benefit, it would definitely be DLA - Disability Living Allowance - for in spite of its rather off-putting...