Martin Lewis offers advice on Attendance Allowance To qualify for Attendance Allowance, you must be of state pension age (currently at least 66). There is no specific list of conditions that qualify; both mental and physical disabilities or illness...
I never intended to campaign on this issue, but since posting this question, I have been successful in getting the student union to take up the issue of Carers at our university as one of their priority vulnerable groups, and the first thing we will ask for is for St...
I was fortunate because I work for the [public sector] and we get full pay [for 6 months] and half pay [for 6 months], a lot of people aren't in that position. They come off work and they're just getting sickness benefit ... so you know it does impact on your whole life real...
Carers, shielders and key workers were the hardest hit, with these groups being at least twice as likely to have fallen behind on a household bill because of coronavirus. Other groups that are also at least twice as likely to have fallen behind on payments include disabled people, young ...
I'd walk her maybe three miles to my mum's and leave her there and then pick her up when I came from work, and would maybe walk home again. So she became much less portable. Because what we found was things like sitting in the car, that squinched whatever, and if she sat in th...