my wife is currently working as a carer, employed by a company to look after people in their own homes. she has workied for this company now for 3 years, which was taken over recently by another care company.

the company has 2 clients next to each other in the same street, one house contains...

wonder if anyone can help me, i have both parents ill, my dad has Parkinson's and my mum has had cancer and also has a hip problem, my mum gets some sort of an allowance for taking care of my dad, but i feel he needs more care now and my mum is finding it hard to manage, my dad has had a fall yesterday...

Hey guys,

Just realised I hadn't put details of my ESA appeal up yet! lol

Don't necessarily need any help at this stage, but in case I need future help, or indeed my situation helps others, it's always a good thing

Ok, so, I had been on Incapacity benefit...

He has parkinsons and i think he is getting worse, he has deteriorated so fast over the past year since his diagnosis, its breaking my heart and i cant stop crying .

His sister died yesterday of cancer and when i went to see him this morning he never seemed upset about it, i wonder if...

Good morning,
Please can anyone hep?
I have a adult son aged 22 he lives in assisted living,having one to one care paid for by social services,he receives full housing benefit to pay for the rent on his flat,this i had to fight to get for a year but now it is in place.
The council...

Send form back with details of income 2011 to 2012 a few weeks back, I know they received it, as I have track and trace confirmation details, so does anyone know how long it will take to hear back from them.
I would say it's going on 3 weeks since they received it.

Thank you. :h...

I thought I would post this up ready.

My son's DLA will run out the day before his 18th Birthday, his birthday is 15 January, so I expect anytime over the following months his renewal will come through.

With this current award he was awarded from the age of 12 and its been...

I'm looking into this at the moment re. my mum who spent her final years in a care home with Altzheimer's. Although Mum passed away several years ago, people can still re-claim....

Around £500 a month from her own money from 2004 (the date from when you can do it apparently.....) until...

On behalf of my ex bro in law.

But to begin with my youngest son with autism and receives DLA for both care and mobility and normally I would know how it works, but not when an arrangement have been put in place to have a visit from own GP when re-newing the benefit. However, my son's...

Right this is the carers and there rights handbook from carers uk

http://www.carersuk.org/professional...yZXIncyI7aTozO...

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Back in 2007 we remortgaged, our deal with Chelsea came to an end a year earlier.
As we had a big secured loan as well with Nemo Finance, the settlement figure was £66K alone, so that was also added to the mortgage.

Back in 2003 we taken out a mortgage through right to buy, so...

Greetings All,

Please have a read of my GOV E-Petition and sign if you agree.

Thank You.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/660

Hi all,

A lot of gig venues, and all major festivals, offer free tickets to a carer when accompanying a disabled person. I don't know about other places (theme parks etc) but maybe it would be a good idea to list the different ones and what proof is needed? (If not just delete/ignore)...