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Paul Lewis: A benefits system for whose benefit exactly?
By Paul Lewis 23
rd April 2021 11:58 am
Earlier this month marked a big moment for people so disabled they need help with their bodily functions from another person day and night. They got an extra 60p a week on their Attendance Allowance – less than the price of a second-class stamp to write and complain.
Their carer will get an extra 35p a week, which, for the minimum 35 hours they must do their caring, amounts at best to an extra 1p an hour. In total, their weekly stipends will creep up to £89.60 and £67.60 a week.
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Tens of thousands of social housing tenants across Scotland have been helped to claw back more than £9 million in unpaid cash from the UK’s “complicated” benefits system. The Wheatley Group, which administers Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) and five other organisations, said that its staff had intervened in more than 20,000 cases to help people claim financial assistance they were due. The group said that many struggled to fill in forms or access online payments – and were missing out on money which was rightfully theirs. Some of those affected said being able to access benefits they were unaware of, or thought they had been denied, was a “lifeline” which helped them keep their heads above water while they relied on food parcels to get by.
A PASSIONATE plea has been made for Dorset Council to think again after it rejected a plan for new housing for vulnerable people at a redundant building in Bridport. Daniel Taylor Almshouses (DanTay), which has been providing houses for the poor for hundreds of years, applied to convert the former Chancery House day centre into ten flats. The centre has been standing empty for two years and had been running at a loss for some time before its closure. DanTay says its plan would provide a genuinely affordable housing solution for people who have got into difficulty for whatever reason and may now be sleeping on friends sofas in tents or even shop doorways.