Are we benefit scroungers?

Change your name to Abdulhakmohammed and your son shall receive many benfits and a car to run his mum around in.

Your wife ought to apply for DLA - some of the award could then be paid to your son.

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are your wife and son 'hideously white'?

No Mike, you're not benefit scroungers. Your wife had a car accident and your son should look after her as you're away earning. That's what benefits are for in my opinion and I'm somewhere to the right of Norman Tebbit. My next door neighbour hasn't worked for five years as he can hardly walk with arthritis. His house has a load of gadgets in it to facilitate him opening doors and putting the kettle on etc...All paid for by the State and rightly too, we are a caring society and that's what benefits are for - genuine cases of need. Benefits are not for people who would rather be on them than work or people from other countries who come here solely to claim them. And contrary to the beliefs of some of the Leftists on this NG, they are legion.

Whose fault was the accident? Is your wife not entitled to substantial damages? If the other party's insurers accept liability, they may well make an intermim payment to your wife.

Your wife should be able to claim Disability Living Allowance which, is not means tested. She should also qualify for a free bus pass and a Disabled Person's Railcard and, most valuable of all, a Disabled Person's Parking Permit. Once you get these things, they tend not to take them off you when you recover.

This is not scrounging; it is your legal and moral entitlement from a so-called caring society.

I suggest you contact your local Citizens' Advice Centre or your local council's Welfare Rights Department. There is an excellent site at

Of course the benefit rules apply to everyone and do not depend on race. The benefit system is not meant to replace people looking after their own families. I spend half my life looking after my 86 year old father,I do not expect to be paid for this,but more help would be nice. The attitude of the person who posted this is common,they think that the benefits system is very generous but somehow when they claim benefit they find it is not as good as they claim to think.

Mike wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

No you're not. The fact that you're aware enough to even consider asking the question rules you out.

Continuing to use a disabled person's parking permit after you've recovered doesn't sound very moral to me. Nor any of those other things for that matter - if you are getting a free bus pass, then the cost of that is being subsidised by others on the basis that you're disabled. Just because you can get away with using it after you no longer need it, doesn't mean it's moral.....

Continuing to use a disabled person's parking permit after you've recovered doesn't sound very moral to me. Nor any of those other things for that matter - if you are getting a free bus pass, then the cost of that is being subsidised by others on the basis that you're disabled. Just because you can get away with using it after you no longer need it, doesn't mean it's moral.....

There is much truth in your statement, despite the official denials; we all know that asylum seekers get preferential treatment.

But put this in the perspective of the system, on the one hand some sink estate full of unemployable dole scroungers start winging because asylum seekers are getting a better deal.

On the other hand, the system knows only too well that once the asylum seekers are settled, for the most part, they will go on to become hard working, tax paying families who bring up their kids properly and contribute far more to society than they ever take out whereas the unemployable on the sink estate will have.......

You don't need the benefit system, you said you where involved in an accident. Claim either from your or the other persons insurance. Get a solicitor.

Non of the above would be applicable if the injury was temporary.

Exactly, if you are capable of looking after yourself you will never get a penny, the system is only interested in basket cases (the worse the better) and supporting 'client votes' in certain areas.

Just ensure you're covered by private insurance in the future.

Legal claims tend to take a long time to get settled yet the carers want paying immediately.

Solicitors cost megabucks and some of them are not that efficient.

I operate on the principle that the state has funds unlimited despite what they say. Nobody objects at the billions the war in Iraq is costing or the untold luxury the royal family enjoys or the obscene salaries paid to top politicians and civil servants. They waste billions where it suits them.

-- Alasdair.

That depends on the case, usually where blame is clear the insurance will make a preliminary payment.

The are plenty of no win no fee.

The state doesn't have unlimited funds.

That is a matter of opinion.

I suggest you apply for DLA and a blue badge and ignore this advice (I know from experience of a son who was temporarly injured in an rta he got DLA and a blue badge... HTH PHIL

I suggest you apply for DLA and a blue badge and ignore this advice (I know from experience of a son who was temporarly injured in an rta he got DLA and a blue badge... HTH PHIL

I suggest you apply for DLA and a blue badge and ignore this advice (I know from experience of a son who was temporarly injured in an rta he got DLA and a blue badge... HTH PHIL

It isn't cobblers, DLA is a disability benefit. The criteria is strict and isn't usually given for people involved with accidents that result in short term disability. As for the blue badge, same there, you have to be disabled, once you are recovered from a disability it is an offence to use it. I would also state that usually state benefits that are received due to an accident usually have to be repaid from any insurance claim that is paid out.

Here is the definition of requirement

You may be able to get Disability Living Allowance if you are aged under 65 and you have needed help with personal care or had walking difficulties because of a physical or mental disability for three months and you are likely to need this help or have these difficulties for at least another six months.