General Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

DLA ...... plans for the over 65's.

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Deanna

Deanna Report 12 Nov 2009 19:10

You're not so easy to silence

With just a few days of consultation left now, Andy Burnham's attempt to 'close down . . . The debate and controversy over disability living allowance' seems to have been only a partial success.

As we explained in our last newsletter, Burnham gave an assurance that DLA for people aged under 65 was not going to form part of the funding for the National Care Service. Like many others, we pointed out that this means that DLA for people aged 65 and over, as well as AA, is still under threat. We urged people not to let this cunningly worded concession succeed in silencing them.

And you certainly didn't.

People have continued to sign the No 10 petition, which is now at number 6 on the Downing Street site with over 20,000 signatures.

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AttendanceA/

Sharron

Sharron Report 13 Nov 2009 01:01

Deanna,I don't think people over 65 can claim DLA. Doesn't it became Attendance Allowance then with different criteria?

I doubt they will stop it because, if they did, we carers would go back to work and leave the care of them all to the country and they could not afford that!

YorkshireCaz

YorkshireCaz Report 13 Nov 2009 09:23

If we were getting DLA and Motability allowance before we reached 65 we carry on getting it. If applied for after 65 it is something else as you state Sharron.
My visitor has arrived, must go.

Caz
.

Researching:
Davies, Kitson, Cooper, Dewsbury, Eccleshill in Idle, Bradford

YorkshireCaz

YorkshireCaz Report 13 Nov 2009 11:36

n

Researching:
Davies, Kitson, Cooper, Dewsbury, Eccleshill in Idle, Bradford

YorkshireCaz

YorkshireCaz Report 13 Nov 2009 13:56

I agree it makes no sense at all , if you are disabled you need help whether under or over 65.
We need to keep this nudged as we want as many signatures as possible on the petition.

Caz

Researching:
Davies, Kitson, Cooper, Dewsbury, Eccleshill in Idle, Bradford

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 13 Nov 2009 15:28

signed up, Bob

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

YorkshireCaz

YorkshireCaz Report 13 Nov 2009 18:16

Thanks Bob to nudge it up.

Researching:
Davies, Kitson, Cooper, Dewsbury, Eccleshill in Idle, Bradford

Linda

Linda Report 13 Nov 2009 19:12

Just signed it.
lynn

Researching:
Wells Ealing and E/W Ilsley Webbs H/Wycombe Lambourns E/Ilsley Deacons E/Ilsley Cannings Derry

Suzi-Wong

Suzi-Wong Report 13 Nov 2009 19:17

I'm in Scotland.......over 65 years old needing personal care get it free.

Do you mean DLA or DVLA?

If it's DLA is that not covered by attendance allowance? Sorry if it's not the same in England.

Suzanne

Researching:
Allison, Wylie,Turnbull, Ker, McDougall, Stuart, Beer, Montgomery, Chapman, Harmon, Lillicrap, Muraldi, Hislop, McKay, McCordick

YorkshireCaz

YorkshireCaz Report 14 Nov 2009 11:11

Suzanne it should be DLA. The government is trying to stop DLA/AA for over 65s, but they refuse to answer questions on what will happen to over 65s. They have kept it so quiet hoping to get it passed which is why we need as many people to sign the petition as poss.

Caz

Researching:
Davies, Kitson, Cooper, Dewsbury, Eccleshill in Idle, Bradford

YorkshireCaz

YorkshireCaz Report 14 Nov 2009 16:54

n

Researching:
Davies, Kitson, Cooper, Dewsbury, Eccleshill in Idle, Bradford

Deanna

Deanna Report 14 Nov 2009 20:14

Suzi Wong.... You are quite right thanks, I meant Disability Living Allowance.... DLA.
Deanna X

YorkshireCaz

YorkshireCaz Report 17 Nov 2009 10:40

n

Researching:
Davies, Kitson, Cooper, Dewsbury, Eccleshill in Idle, Bradford