Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[NilSatisOptimum]

Full time carers get £10 a day.

Thats about 80p an hour.

Frankly disgusting amount... If that care is outsourced that's at least £18.90 per hour. Have a list in front of me going up to £25.21.

 

[roydo]

Frankly disgusting amount...

Was quite surprised, not gonna lie.

It helps like, but we are way more fortunate than many.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Was quite surprised, not gonna lie.

It helps like, but we are way more fortunate than many.

Yes indeed factor in a young family two house income mortgage, many other scenarios some very difficult and painful decision to be made.

 

[roydo]

Yes indeed factor in a young family two house income mortgage, many other scenarios some very difficult and painful decision to be made.

I shudder to think what a young family might need to cope with in all this.

Like many know, our cards were dealt early last year, and "choice" wasnt really an option. But we are where we are, and reasonably ok with it.

Covid can do one mind.

 

[COYBL25]

Full time carers get £10 a day.

Thats about 80p an hour.

Going off topic here, but one of the biggest problems with things like the carers allowance and the Disability Living Allowance ( now PIP ) is that many slip through the cracks, as they’re never told about it.

I only learnt via word of mouth, that my lad was eligible for it, nine months after he was born, some six months after I’d had to pack in work to look after him.

I later found out via my voluntary work with Scope at Alder Hey, that there used to be a dedicated social worker within the hospital, who would advise the families of kids with disabilities about benefits. The social worker had been moved elsewhere, due to cost cutting.

So after the social worker left there was no one advising the families of these kids about what they were entitled to.

One of the main reasons families with disabled kids split up, is due the financial pressures caused by a parent having to pack work in to look after their child !

 

[roydo]

Going off topic here, but one of the biggest problems with things like the carers allowance and the Disability Living Allowance ( now PIP ) is that many slip through the cracks, as they’re never told about it.

I only learnt via word of mouth, that my lad was eligible for it, nine months after he was born, some six months after I’d had to pack in work to look after him.

I later found out via my voluntary work with Scope at Alder Hey, that there used to be a dedicated social worker within the hospital, who would advise the families of kids with disabilities about benefits. The social worker had been moved elsewhere, due to cost cutting.

So after the social worker left there was no one advising the families of these kids about what they were entitled to.

One of the main reasons families with disabled kids split up, is due the financial pressures caused by a parent having to pack work in to look after their child !

Aye. Unless you are "in" the system already, chances are you wont know about this stuff. I didnt.

 

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[Blues Harp]

Going off topic here, but one of the biggest problems with things like the carers allowance and the Disability Living Allowance ( now PIP ) is that many slip through the cracks, as they’re never told about it.

I only learnt via word of mouth, that my lad was eligible for it, nine months after he was born, some six months after I’d had to pack in work to look after him.

I later found out via my voluntary work with Scope at Alder Hey, that there used to be a dedicated social worker within the hospital, who would advise the families of kids with disabilities about benefits. The social worker had been moved elsewhere, due to cost cutting.

So after the social worker left there was no one advising the families of these kids about what they were entitled to.

One of the main reasons families with disabled kids split up, is due the financial pressures caused by a parent having to pack work in to look after their child !

Spot on mate. Not only is the current benefit system unfit for purpose (believe me I have worked in it) but the amount of unclaimed benefits is pretty high, mainly as you quite rightly point out through people not knowing for which benefit they may be eligible.

 

[COYBL25]

The problem is that there’s that many of these studies, all saying different things, you really don’t know what to think anymore !

 

[Deleted member 48881]

The problem is that there’s that many of these studies, all saying different things, you really don’t know what to think anymore !

In before someone accuses Newsweek of being far right media lol

 

[COYBL25]

Spot on mate. Not only is the current benefit system unfit for purpose (believe me I have worked in it) but the amount of unclaimed benefits is pretty high, mainly as you quite rightly point out through people not knowing for which benefit they may be eligible.

I genuinely didn’t think I was entitled to anything, as I’d never had to use the benefits system in my life and the money at the time would’ve made a massive difference.

It’s just mind boggling that people have to find out word of mouth or via a charity / health visitor etc.

It’s also incredibly complicated and the forms would be extremely difficult for someone to process for someone who wasn’t literate and / or used to filling forms in.

 

[PhilM]

In a nutshell, I stopped reading after:

"However, the researchers also acknowledged that the study had limitations, and noted that "cross-country comparisons are difficult," since nations may have different rules, cultures, and relationships between their government and citizenry."

 

[PhilM]

Going off topic here, but one of the biggest problems with things like the carers allowance and the Disability Living Allowance ( now PIP ) is that many slip through the cracks, as they’re never told about it.

It frustrates me so much when you see decent, hard-working families struggle by without much or any financial support due to lack of information.

Whereas others who do not need as much support, 'utilise' the system to their own benefits because they develop the knowledge through like-minded people.

I literally see it on a daily basis and it peeves me no end because valid information would support so many, but I doubt the government want to publicise it.

I suspect my own Aunt and cousin are bleeding the system when you see what they spend money on although one (Aunt) is disabled and my cousin is her carer.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

The problem is that there’s that many of these studies, all saying different things, you really don’t know what to think anymore !

Always important to check who is doing the study who are stake holders, the scope of the study, the funding who supplied volunteers conduct study...

 

[spectateur]

The problem is that there’s that many of these studies, all saying different things, you really don’t know what to think anymore !

Newsweek is about as believable as the daily heil.