Hi Eleanor.I cant comment on the way that you claim you've been treated, perhaps there was a reason for you being turned down and that would be dependant on your particular circumstances. What I can say though is that is absolutely rubbish for them to claim that you can only get support if you're housebound. I'm certainly not housebound and can lead as independent a life as my next door neighbor can, but there are certain things I cant do on my own which is the thrust of any argument you have to make.
All the best, Ibrahim.----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:39 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with the cost of Access Technology
I was turned down, I did not have that much savings, they said following the assessment that I would have to pay in full for any help I required, interesting you come up with a figure of 23, my borough told me at first that I would not be turned down unless I had 2 houses and savings of 30 thousand. I am so tired I even had such a battle to get the assessnent and they had made their minds up from the 1st phone call when the duty social worker said so rudely that being blind was no qualifying factor for additional payments I would have to demonstrate that I waas unable to do anything for myself and that I was housebound and many blind people lead independent lives. It took so many letters of complaint before I got the assessment and then when I did it was a total waste of time. They sent me a print letter turning me down and when I asked for the letter in an e-mail as an attachment they sent it but when I went to open the word attachnent it asked me for a password. I did not have a password so wrote back using the e-mail reply. No need to tell you I did not have a reply. Actually when the person who was coming out to do the financial assessment, I had to cancel that appointment so sent an e-mail to cancel and followed up with aphone call of cancellation, the person was not told I had cancelled. She came out and I was not in. She phoned me and told me that if a situation like this occurs then I am automatically turned down. I then had nore arguements and the proof of my e-mail of cancellation and phone call. In the assessment for example looking at my outgoings when I said that I had phone rental and mobile phone contract she said that they were only allowed to allow one pound and fifty pence a week for land-line and nothing for mobile phone.-original message- Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with the cost of Access Technology From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu" <ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx> Date: 22/10/2010 8:06 am Hi Eleanor. You can only be turned down if you have savings of over £23000 or more,other than that they should give you an assessment as it is your legal rightto be assessed. All the best, Ibrahim.----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 8:09 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with the cost of Access TechnologyWell I was turned down for this direct payment so that is that! They turned me down on my first phone call and when I insisted on the assessment etc, I was still turned down!----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Weetman" <goatmum@xxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 7:28 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with the cost of Access Technologyit took me over a year to get my first payment! Then I had to fight forthe next year after only half a year! lol Now I'm so glad I did as my DBCpackage was over ten grand! Christine.----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet Tuggey" <janet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 7:05 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with the cost of Access TechnologyHi, I'm in the process of applying for Direct Payments, but knowing how bloody useless Haringey Borough Council is, I'll probably be drawing a pension before anything gets sorted. Still miracles could occur. Janet & Wheat, the silly Shepherd cross -----Original Message-----From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On BehalfOf Christine Weetman Sent: 21 October 2010 17:56 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with the cost of Access Technology If your in the UK, you apply to social services for direct payments, thiswill give you money to pay a Personal Assistant, of your own choice, whowill help you with day-to-day tasks like, shopping, hobbies just about anything, mine helps me with my hobby which is crafting so I need helpsorting colours, also with my greenhouse planting and other tasks I wishto do which I need help for. SDS is Self Directed Support and in applying for this you must ask for an amount to help fund expensive equipment which you can not otherwise afford, I have just been fortunate enough to obtain a DBC,DeafBlind Communicator, for which I was given a one-off payment. I haveitfully covered for six years and was given a full days training to ensureI am able to use the equipment. You can't ask for Normal things like, washing machine, cooker, sofa etc but if you can justify why you need Jaws as apposed to an available free screenreader I'm sure this will be acceptable. From what I can understand the goverment will allow a budget of so many hours per week and if you don't need all that time then you can request the funding to be used on specialist equipment. I had to be pretty insistant and know all my rights, but got there in the end. Sorry for the long email. Christine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:34 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with the cost of Access TechnologyWhat is SDS Christine?----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Weetman" <goatmum@xxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:17 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Help with the cost of Access TechnologyApply for SDS and ask for help with specialist equipment. This is theOnly way I know of doing it and it worked for me. Christine.----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet Tuggey" <janet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:11 PM Subject: [access-uk] Help with the cost of Access TechnologyHi all, I'm wondering if anyone knows of where I can apply for help withthe cost of Access Technology as I'm unemployed at the moment and would really like to purchase such things as a scanner plus software, and a full working version of JAWS for starters (I have the demo version of JAWS 11 and am fed up with having to reboot after 40 minutes, I also have NVDA which is pretty good, but still prefer JAWS). Any suggestions would be much appreciated. 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