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I love when we get a post about benefits, wikiwirral 4833 Members and nobody says they're on the dole lol, it's always I'm hardworking so hardworking that they've got time to come on here lol get back to work lol joke
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Some know my situation. I'd love to know how some of the people who screw the incapacity system do it. I've been told to apply for DLA but even for me, the form is a nightmare.
I'd love to work - I hate having no money, scrimping to pay bills and try to work my budget out to eat a decent diet so that I can stay as healthy as possible. I get housing benefit and council tax benefit but I still have to pay some out of my benefit. Unlike those on JSA, I wouldn't get my prescriptions free. I do but that's because of a particular medication I have to take. I don't get dental treatment for free either. I'll happily give anyone a breakdown of exactly how much I get and what is paid out, showing what exactly is left over every month.
If I could find an employer that won't mind me having at least 3 days off every 3 months (I have injections every 3 months and can't walk unless absolutely neccessary for 3 days), a morning/afternoon off every week for physio, a morning/afternoon off ever 2 or 3 months for hospital appointments, 2 weeks off every 6 months or so for surgery and recuperation and a day or 2 off at the drop of a hat if I do too much and can't walk then I'd gladly take a job!!
I guess I could take that as holiday time, but I'd end up owing "work" time.
What I don't agree with is paying druggies and alcoholics to sit at home to do drugs and drink. They get more than any!! It's not an illness, it's a choice!! I had no choice with my accident or being subsequently made redundant.
I will fight for DLA - if I get it, I get it. If not, there's not much I can do. That's the system. I don't know how to "play" it and I wouldn't anyway. I've worked bloody hard over the past *mumbles* years and paid my national insurance, the key word being INSURANCE. I see it as an insurance that should I need help, I can get it.
If you've never worked a day in your life then you should be made to work for your benefits.
I lost my rag recently with someone who said I have an "easy life". That opinion soon changed when they put my brace on and tried to walk with it on and I explained that to give them a slight idea of the pain, I'd put a row of drawing pins on the floor and they could kneel on them for 10 minutes! That's not even the half of it.
They can gladly have the nights when I wake up screaming because the knee has dislocated in my sleep or I've torn the cartilage in my sleep (which is what happened a few weeks ago), the nights I can't sleep at all because the painkillers don't work, the leg that looks like a childs dot to dot puzzle with the injection and surgery scars, the days when the knee dislocates up to 6 times just because it can, the side effects of the painkillers - drowsiness, constipation, headaches, nausea, sickness...the list is endless. They can gladly have not being able to walk more than a few yards without wanting to cry, the name calling from chavvy bitches that think it's funny to point and call you a "spastic", the dirty looks from people on the bus because you ask them politely to give up their "for disabled passenger" seat on the bus because you actually ARE disabled, the tuts because it takes you a bit longer to get off the bus....
Shall I carry on??
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wench your post has really hit a nerve with me...it is very sad that in this country that real ppl like you who have a disability have to fight for their benefit entitlements....it really is shitty....
i have seen this but with disabled children, how a parent can claim for a child with adhd full dla, and yet children with severe learning and physical disabilities have to fight and argue to enable their children to get dla....
it seems to me, if you play the system you get the lot...
if you dont you get fook all....
levels of disability should be tiered....i see no sense in paying dla to a child with adhd at the same rate as a child with sever learning and physical disabilities....
it makes my blood boil
'Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.' Dr Seuss.
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Its amazing how many people label every single person on the dole as a scrounger i have worked all my life since leaving school and never once been out of a job so the way i see it ive paid enough tax in my time to be able to use the job seekers service now i require it.
Id love to have a job i would do anything that was offerd to me just so i didnt have to claim job seekers allowance.
i hate it with a passion im lucky enough to have only ever had to sign on oncr and thats since december due to losing my job
and im going insane sitting at home but on the other hand there are no jobs out there. i have counted since december i have applied for over 200 jobs all of them i am fully qualified and have relevant skills to do the job but i can count the number of jobs ive heard back from on one hand its hard to fine employment these days and i dont know how anyone can live of the dole £100 for 2 weeks is disgusting
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Some know my situation. I'd love to know how some of the people who screw the incapacity system do it. I've been told to apply for DLA but even for me, the form is a nightmare.
I'd love to work - I hate having no money, scrimping to pay bills and try to work my budget out to eat a decent diet so that I can stay as healthy as possible. I get housing benefit and council tax benefit but I still have to pay some out of my benefit. Unlike those on JSA, I wouldn't get my prescriptions free. I do but that's because of a particular medication I have to take. I don't get dental treatment for free either. I'll happily give anyone a breakdown of exactly how much I get and what is paid out, showing what exactly is left over every month.
If I could find an employer that won't mind me having at least 3 days off every 3 months (I have injections every 3 months and can't walk unless absolutely neccessary for 3 days), a morning/afternoon off every week for physio, a morning/afternoon off ever 2 or 3 months for hospital appointments, 2 weeks off every 6 months or so for surgery and recuperation and a day or 2 off at the drop of a hat if I do too much and can't walk then I'd gladly take a job!!
I guess I could take that as holiday time, but I'd end up owing "work" time.
What I don't agree with is paying druggies and alcoholics to sit at home to do drugs and drink. They get more than any!! It's not an illness, it's a choice!! I had no choice with my accident or being subsequently made redundant.
I will fight for DLA - if I get it, I get it. If not, there's not much I can do. That's the system. I don't know how to "play" it and I wouldn't anyway. I've worked bloody hard over the past *mumbles* years and paid my national insurance, the key word being INSURANCE. I see it as an insurance that should I need help, I can get it.
If you've never worked a day in your life then you should be made to work for your benefits.
I lost my rag recently with someone who said I have an "easy life". That opinion soon changed when they put my brace on and tried to walk with it on and I explained that to give them a slight idea of the pain, I'd put a row of drawing pins on the floor and they could kneel on them for 10 minutes! That's not even the half of it.
They can gladly have the nights when I wake up screaming because the knee has dislocated in my sleep or I've torn the cartilage in my sleep (which is what happened a few weeks ago), the nights I can't sleep at all because the painkillers don't work, the leg that looks like a childs dot to dot puzzle with the injection and surgery scars, the days when the knee dislocates up to 6 times just because it can, the side effects of the painkillers - drowsiness, constipation, headaches, nausea, sickness...the list is endless. They can gladly have not being able to walk more than a few yards without wanting to cry, the name calling from chavvy bitches that think it's funny to point and call you a "spastic", the dirty looks from people on the bus because you ask them politely to give up their "for disabled passenger" seat on the bus because you actually ARE disabled, the tuts because it takes you a bit longer to get off the bus....
Shall I carry on??
I read that shit too Jackie and at first I never would have notice that you are one bit disabled, I can only imagine that the nights out in the calli and wiki meets must have been painful and you put on a real brave fave, or drank excessively to nullify the agony 
Uncertainty or not knowing causes depression, Im happy because I know I'm going to die one day!
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Brave face Andy and I pay for a night out with not being able to walk for a few days - hence I don't go out very often at all. I think you don't see me as disabled because you know me and knew me before the accident - I'm just Jac to you (and I mean that in a nice way). I like it that way my love 
Sometimes Police Officers give more than just speeding tickets!
It�s hard to be fit as a fiddle when you�re shaped like a cello!
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Brave face Andy and I pay for a night out with not being able to walk for a few days - hence I don't go out very often at all. I think you don't see me as disabled because you know me and knew me before the accident - I'm just Jac to you (and I mean that in a nice way). I like it that way my love One day my fair jac, for when my eye sight is failing me, my mojo has deserted me, and my wheel chair has two flat tyres, then I will make yee my true wench and you can bare the mark of sanchez!!!!!!!
Uncertainty or not knowing causes depression, Im happy because I know I'm going to die one day!
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Pah, why wait, just get a room
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2 flat tyres coming up my love - you already have poor eyesight and your mojo is on the bedroom floor in a pile of tissues and grey tinged white sport socks The time is near my dear Andrew, the time is near  you will then bear MY mark 
Sometimes Police Officers give more than just speeding tickets!
It�s hard to be fit as a fiddle when you�re shaped like a cello!
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Pah, why wait, just get a room Cheers for egging on her highness! Jackie u got me down to a t.. but with one slight error. The jizz riddled socks on my floor are white, but with a grey band around the bottom to indicate where the toes sit. But what the hell, wheres ma wheel slashin knife and ma god dam wheel chair!!
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When it comes to you, I don't need egging on  I have loved thee from afar for many a year.....no-one knows my heartache and the unrequited love I have for the man known as Sanchez... I have a choice of knives just waiting for your wheels They can take my benefit...but they'll never take my sense of humour
Sometimes Police Officers give more than just speeding tickets!
It�s hard to be fit as a fiddle when you�re shaped like a cello!
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ha ha, you should have posted that in my 'sayings and quotes' topic
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The system isn't very good, I've worked for 27 years but am currently unemployed and off sick. I have put proposals to the job centre about getting me back in work because I am not capable of a normal 9 to 5 job at the moment. But the system doesn't let me do it and I would risk going bankrupt very fast.
All I'm asking for is a bit of short term flexibility and a bit of backup financial support should I need it, either way it would save them money and get me into work again.
My trade has died in this area, there are a lot of bits and pieces I could do on a casual basis at least on a temporary basis.
Rightly or wrongly (hard hat please) I don't want to move from this area.
We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk
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Sorry to hear about that dd, it's bloody frustrating. I'm retired now but I know where you're coming from. The older you get the harder it is to get a placing as well, I ended up in a cooked meat packing plant and then a pork pie factory, gopping work but it paid the mortgage. You just then have to hope that something better comes along while you're there, it did with me after 12 months luckily. Hang on in there mate and good luck.
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