Diary of a benefit claimant.

You’ve said that to me before.
I’m certainly not grumbling; I’m just explaining how GN works.

Out of genuine interest: do you approach other businesses with your ideas?

Sorry, the above was to StarDreamer. Apologies for messing up the thread!

I too have trouble opening things, but I never thought to mention that.
The childproof lids are awful.

Some spray aerosols too. You need a lot a strength just to squirt them.
My DH has a deformed hand due to RA, and it amazes me how he copes with packaging.

SD I’m not belittling your ideas at all, I hope that you don’t think I am.
I just think that perhaps you might be better off approaching institutions etc yourself?

^SD I’m not belittling your ideas at all, I hope that you don’t think I am.
I just think that perhaps you might be better off approaching institutions etc yourself?^

Maybe he could do both. You don't ask, you don't get! However, I suspect manufacturers wouldn't want to waste money on different packaging, more's the pity.

It depends.

I was reading yesterday of a company that embosses Braille on cans of beer so that blind people know what is in a can.

So as perhaps only a small minority of the customers are blind, the decision meant spending money and making effort to get it done for a minority of customers.

There are gadgets available for some such issues.

For example,

LINK > www.healthcarepro.co.uk/ previously known as NRS.

I have just found this.

LINK > www.healthcarepro.co.uk/eating-drinking-aids/openers/culinaire-magipull-ring-pull-opener

I don't know if it is any good.

I can say that I have had things from them, such as a grabber so that I can pick things up off the floor without bending down.

LINK > www.healthcarepro.co.uk/household-aids/reachers/NRS%20Combi%20Grabber

The link goes to the shorter one, out of stock. But the longer one is available.

I got one of the longer ones at a reduced price, but not as low as they are now. You would need to pay a carriage charge too.

They also have a gadget called a Reacher with a different shaped end.

Perhaps sometimes these things are not decided by company directors on first order business considerations.#

For example, if a company director has a relative who is blind, that might trump considerations of cost.

That # got in there somehow. It is not some sort of comment.

The Co-Op (or Co-Op as they rather annoyingly call themselves) are very good with use of Braille too. In fact they are good all round with stuff like that.
I got my grabber from Amazon.

FC, did you manage to get the carer's allowance.
i think it's unusual to be denied.
unless it's something to do with other income.

icanhandthemback

^SD I’m not belittling your ideas at all, I hope that you don’t think I am.
I just think that perhaps you might be better off approaching institutions etc yourself?^

Maybe he could do both. You don't ask, you don't get! However, I suspect manufacturers wouldn't want to waste money on different packaging, more's the pity.

Three things.

It used to be said that - a new Pope will be an Italian - it is not obligatory, but it always has been an Italian for four hundred years so in practice it will be.

It used to be said that - every American President has always been a Senator, or a Governor of a State, or a Military Leader - said as that is how it will be in the future.

From what I have been reading, the success of the Women's England football team is due to going away from doing things the way they have been done previously.

I have put forward a request to GNHQ. Maybe what I have suggested is going away from how things have been done in the past. The past is the past. Now is now. The future is the future.

If people want to, they could report my earlier post and endorse my request and write "Yes please" to my suggestion of GNHQ arranging a sponsored discussion.

This man is pretty down to earth, but he volunteers for a company who support people with claims and mandatory reconsideration, so he is worth a listen.

youtu.be/tipZX8fpyVE

It's for welbeck, to make sense of the system a bit.

youtu.be/lt85ydeIS-s

This one is aimed at pip claimants.

youtu.be/f9gKIx2wpso

It used to be said that - a new Pope will be an Italian - it is not obligatory, but it always has been an Italian for four hundred years so in practice it will be

Can you explain this please?
The present Pope is Argentinian, his predecessor is Austrian and the one before him was Polish.

youtu.be/zfSdF0Sm0vc
This is helpful for form filling/assessments for pip or work capability assessments.

MissAdventure - thanks for posting those links.

welbeck

FC, did you manage to get the carer's allowance.
i think it's unusual to be denied.
unless it's something to do with other income.

It was denied because I am receiving ESA.
Originally it was denied because DH wasn’t receiving the correct care component (only because I hadn’t applied for it - he was eligible for it for years)
I sorted that out - and then the ESA was a problem

The man volunteers because he likes a good fight.
He also suffers depression and anxiety too.

I like in the aids and things video where he talks about putting your nicknocks on.

Whiff, have a look at the link below as to how to win a pip appeal.

www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/how-win-pip-appeal

It may be a good idea to include a weekly diary as additional evidence to your appeal together with a letter from your neurologist.
There's an example here based on depression and anxiety. Page 39

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/sites/default/files/pdf/PIPGuidetoclaiming.pdf

SD come on!
You cannot compare Gransnet with the American political system; even less so the Catholic Chuch!

MawtheMerrier

^It used to be said that - a new Pope will be an Italian - it is not obligatory, but it always has been an Italian for four hundred years so in practice it will be^

Can you explain this please?
The present Pope is Argentinian, his predecessor is Austrian and the one before him was Polish.

Yes, certainly.

It was said in the 1960s, when a new Pope was to be elected after Pope John XXIII had passed away. It was proved correct when Pope Paul VI was then elected. It was also true when Pope John Paul I was elected, but then Pope John Paul II was elected, so the saying fell by the wayside.

FannyCornforth

SD come on!
You cannot compare Gransnet with the American political system; even less so the Catholic Chuch!

I am simply saying that when people say that something won't happen on the basis that such things have not happened previously that it is not always the case that it does not happen.