That’s a heck of a lot of money what are you counting in that? I get just over £15000 including PIP and an amount for housing costs. That’s £8000 less than you(just over £150 a week). You are doing better than 99.99% of single people on benefits.
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£13.900 a year ( £1.190 a month) in DLA plus ESA and £9.000 a year in housing benefit, my rent is £198 a week but it’s paid in full by housing benefit.
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Your rent explains explains quite a lot . My rent is just over £383 a month . I get £887 universal credit and PIP a month . Being on UC I lose the severe disability premium unlike people on ESA. The premium is supposed to be restored but they are taking their time over doing it. With the premium restored I’d have about the same in UC and PIP as you get with ESA + DLA. Currently people on UC are being done down a considerable amount .
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I was just going to say supported housing rent is very expensive!
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My mother is worth millions…she says all my siblings and I will be set for life once she dies…I don’t care about the money…I want my mom to stay alive…she’s 75.
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I’m in that boat too with my parents,
but I’m not going to take it for myself,
since we don’t along anymore.
I’ll give it all to my kids.
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Idk it depends how rich. Like if i had a million or 2 id move me and my pops back home asap and probably try to finish school with a four year degree in either enviromental science or sustainability technology. Idk know exactly where i want to us live but probably close to family. I mean im sort doing the degree thing now but i can only afford a 2 year without loans. And iam moving back west in the next year or two im just not paying for most of it. Im not rich but im making my goals happen. Now something like 50 million or hundreds of millions ill probably just invest into cures for diseases and get a four year degree. When im not busy ill be in ca with my friends and the little family i got out there
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I’m gonna eat the biggest fried boloney sandwich you ever seen, marry my sister Sadie, have 2 young-uns, be a big spender at the county fair, and turn my trailer into a triple wide.
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Im going to be selling my music soon. Im getting 5000 views a month so i think its time to sell. Hoping i make enough to live each month comfortably.
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The same thing I do now. Just trying to cut down on stress and cope with life.
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Supported living is very expensive but because its supported living the rent is met in full by housing benefit. I think here in Nottinghamshire if I was living alone in a flat I would only be entailed to £300.00 a month housing benefit. The cheapest rents in my town and we are talking bobby basic = no garden, rougher area - 1 bedroom is £450.00 so I will have to pay the shortfall. Here I live in a expensive area close to the London line train station, big garden. Because its a shared property (I live with some really nice people) everything downstairs is replaced by the care company including all the white goods in the kitchen if they break Its a secured property meaning I just can’t be kicked out, the house is owned by a housing association.
I hope you get a pack payment on your UC firemonkey.
I guess that’s because of staff costs to provide the support.
That just goes to show how unrealistic housing allowance levels are/how greedy private landlords are. That means you’d have to be forking out about £35 a week out of benefits to cover the shortfall .
It’s good you are in secure accommodation. My one bedroom flat is a housing association property. There’s no communal garden but looking out my front window I can see a large patch of grass and a brook.
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No the support staff are paid separately from Social Services. Social services pay the care company direct. the £198 a month rent goes directly to the rent, they do not fund the care. I get 21 hours support a week so that £16.00 a hour x 21 = £330.00 a week social services pay to the care company for my support staff not including shared staff or sleep staff. Because Nottinghamshire County Council are £56 million in debt they are trying to cut back on care packages so people are having them reduced. I just had a financial assessment to see if they would cut my hours or charge me. Luckly they didn’t cut them and because I’ve been on a section 3 I’m covered by section 117 after care meaning I don’t have to pay for my care costs. My housemate has to pay £130 a month out his PIP and he only receives 6 hours support a week.
Are you uploading it to Google Play Music, Apple Music, Spotify, and other services? I no longer purchase music for personal consumption, I stream it.
I get 3 hours a week and pay nothing. I have no doubt if I got more hours I’d be paying. It does seem so wrong when social care needs are often a product of severe mental illness that people have to pay for more than a few hours support a week. Several years back I was assessed for direct payments it would have cost me nearly £100 a week. The social worker assigned to my case aborted the process of getting it on knowing that. It seems that unless you are in your position re section 3 you have to pay through the nose for a reasonable level of support.
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It makes it such that I think whats the point in maintaining wellness? it has no benefit to me! I should refuse the medication and become psychotic and get sectioned because wellness means I struggle. They should be promoting wellness and look after each person. SZ/SZA isn’t going to go away. They should help them. I have read many reports that people with SZ/SZA are being denied ESA/PIP (especially PIP) even when they have CPN reports outlining their difficulties. I’ll be completely honest that doesn’t induce me to maintain wellness.
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I would wish for unlimited wishes and fly on a carpet and sing to myself when flying over a city.
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I’d give most of it away, and keep just enough to buy a small, single person camper and travel cross country from Maine to Florida, then to California, then up to Michigan, after I saw the giant Red Wood Forest.
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I like alot of others dont have tons of bandwidth so we like or .wav and .mp3s
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