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PostSubject: Living with a disability?   Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:30 pm

Do you or anyone you know live life with a disability?
Can you still live life to the full?
Do people with disabilities get enough support?
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PostSubject: Re: Living with a disability?   Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:53 pm

Missus bat has considerable joint pain, has a replacement hip and a knee and can only walk any distance with a stick.

Because she is able to breathe sitting-up they stopped her DLA over a year ago and she now gets no disability benefeit whatsoever and relies wholly on my support.
The whole disabled community is being made to pay to save the authorities the bother of rooting out the real cheats and scroungers and it looks like that is only going to get worse. Blue parking badges are the next thing they are about to grab back.
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PostSubject: Re: Living with a disability?   Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:20 am

Do you or anyone you know live life with a disability?
Yes. I have a friend that is confined to a wheel chair. And I have another friend that is disabled because of severe arthritis.
Can you still live life to the full?
Obviously not.
Do people with disabilities get enough support?
I believe they do ok in Canada.
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PostSubject: Re: Living with a disability?   Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:44 pm

They are talking of charging you now for blue badges Mr Bat.
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PostSubject: Re: Living with a disability?   Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:10 pm

The blue badge not totally free now,
Just popped downstairs to ask missus bat she says it was £2-50 last time.
That probably doesn't even cover the admin costs in todays world and if it was simply an increase in price we would be happy to bear that.
What we really fear is that they are also talking about restricting who can get them.
The extra distance walking caused by not be able to park in reserved areas would be a huge limit for my wife to the point she would probably have to consider getting one of those horrible mobility scooters.

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