Clive

As I have said earlier, if you fill in the form almost honestly you make yourself exempt straight away. They are very craftily worded forms.

That is what I have until the the end of next month,the last claim they agreed with my conditions I was suitable fir attendance allowance, that I was entitled to £65 per week ☺ Now, I am entitled to bugger all.

We did slightly exaggerate some things, but I still got refused a continuation of my claim, wife has phoned and given them both barrels, but the person you are talking to ain't the one who makes the final decision.

They check up with your doctor, or ask you to attend a medical examination by a appointed doctor, They do not rely solely on the answers on the claim form, or believe what a claimant has put down on said form.

Unless you are one of our 3 neighbours......they know how to do it.

She has problems with her knees (replaced) hip joints and feet.......but she can wash, dress and feed herself so on that she would be exempt from claiming carers allowance.......it is not easy to play the system.

No @boboneleg......I don't care for her, she gets PIP for her lack of mobility. Apart from walking she is able to do everything else, so she would not be able to claim carers allowance. She is/was claiming attendance allowance for me , but as said, I have miraculously healed so I no longer qualify for it.

The Attendance Allowance claim forms are very cunningly worded, answer a question honestly and you immediately have made yourself exempt.

The 10% rise is most welcomed, and my wife receives another £2 per week on her PIP payments. But thank the Lord that I have been miraculously healed from my other ailments that I no longer receive Attendance Allowance. So after April we will in effect be much worse off.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02Br4jGtdiaDsFBawNJDv9HopWHW8k4eiALL1MCMZmg3pVjyvibQbPQkk69iZxXdNsl&id=10008894728092 @Buckster...pre trailer days.

I will paint them without removing them, I will hate every minute of doing it though.

They will come off easily, but nowhere to stand them while they dry.....with it being a 1 bedroom bungalow we are very short of space.

Half the trouble is the doors in the bungalow are wheelchair friendly, they are way much wider than standard door, they take a age to paint.

I hate decorating......emulsion painting I can get on with, but gloss painting..

We have to put coasters on the top of our cups of tea.....or we get a film of dust on them if we don't.

The guys do their best to clear up the mess they make, but it's the dust that's floating around, a hour after they have left it settles on every surface..... Be a good thing when it's all done, but that may be the middle of next week, then I can think about decorating both rooms.....

It's the associated dust and dirt that accompanied ripping down the old ceilings, loads came out of the roof space too..........and its nowhere near over with yet.

It's a toss up between them, or my wife finishing me off 1st.

They ripped down the old ceilings in the kitchen & bathroom, and put up new (the guy said) mould resistant plasterboards, and plastered it today.......needs skimming when it's dried..

Like living on a building site....we get a day off from the workmen tomorrow... they back on Thursday, have to empty the kitchen again, and (God knows why ) they have turned our gas off, good thing it's a bit milder.

Yep best wishes @Tango for tomorrow.

Outside of the border of Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire would be a nice start for me.

That's the story of my travels, I have not done more than 300 miles on the scoot since I bought it.