Reading the article, for every £10 that’s needed, the carers fund provides an additional 1p. Says it all really
The government should pay for care for people who are terminally ill, its abhorrent that people who have paid tax and national insurance their whole life and suddenly have all these obscene bills to pay for were the government can take everything off you. Cut out agency nursing and support the NHS with real dedicated staff. If we can cough up all the money we did during covid and to defend other countries… I don’t see how that money couldn’t have been repurposed for more important things for the people of this country!
I’m a carer for my partner. His needs aren’t as severe as the husband in the article, but they’re still daily needs. It took two years just for the DWP to accept he’s disabled – the first assessor lied on the report and every appeal we made to try to point that out and correct the record, they responded with “well the report says this so we’re going with this”. Got it without needing to appeal on the second application, by which time both of us had suffered mentally and he’d pushed himself so hard to return to work part time to earn something that his health had got considerably worse. If they’d awarded him benefits the first time we applied, I don’t think we’d have got to the point where I had to give up work to care for him and for my own mental health.
I’m also an autistic woman and getting any sort of help or support for that, as an adult, is hard too. The fact that I have anxiety about making phone calls and seeking support is held against me when I finally build up the ability to do so as “well you managed this long” or “if you’re not seeking support you must not need it” as if it’s as easy as that. Throw in my caring duties, and the basic household stuff that needs doing by me, and where do they think I find the time or the mental and emotional energy to do anything outside my routine?
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Reading the article, for every £10 that’s needed, the carers fund provides an additional 1p. Says it all really
The government should pay for care for people who are terminally ill, its abhorrent that people who have paid tax and national insurance their whole life and suddenly have all these obscene bills to pay for were the government can take everything off you. Cut out agency nursing and support the NHS with real dedicated staff. If we can cough up all the money we did during covid and to defend other countries… I don’t see how that money couldn’t have been repurposed for more important things for the people of this country!
I’m a carer for my partner. His needs aren’t as severe as the husband in the article, but they’re still daily needs. It took two years just for the DWP to accept he’s disabled – the first assessor lied on the report and every appeal we made to try to point that out and correct the record, they responded with “well the report says this so we’re going with this”. Got it without needing to appeal on the second application, by which time both of us had suffered mentally and he’d pushed himself so hard to return to work part time to earn something that his health had got considerably worse. If they’d awarded him benefits the first time we applied, I don’t think we’d have got to the point where I had to give up work to care for him and for my own mental health.
I’m also an autistic woman and getting any sort of help or support for that, as an adult, is hard too. The fact that I have anxiety about making phone calls and seeking support is held against me when I finally build up the ability to do so as “well you managed this long” or “if you’re not seeking support you must not need it” as if it’s as easy as that. Throw in my caring duties, and the basic household stuff that needs doing by me, and where do they think I find the time or the mental and emotional energy to do anything outside my routine?