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Let me give you an example of how you can have mental health problems giving rise to care needs but be found fit for work. Let us suppose that you need help to stop you harming yourself, and let us suppose that you need that help when you're not actually at work (i.e. where you have the support of colleagues and the social pressure not to harm yourself) so that you need the help in the morning, in the lunch break and after work plus at night, then you might well qualify for higher rate care whilst still being fit for work.

But whether the effects of your mental illness would give rise to a need for care whilst still being fit for work would depend on the precise nature of your condition.

mistynow wrote:

San100 wrote:

I receive Severe Disability Allowance (the precursor to Incapacity Benefit).



Should I no longer receive this benefit my partner's Pension Credit would increase to make up for the loss.

I also was relying on my husbands Pension Credit increasing as feel under such stress due to the rule changes around paraplegics, not all of us can actually transfer without help,


I have read that they are also going to change the rules around Pension Credit, which could impact very badly indeed on many.

(mods please note I have not used the vile language that came to mind as I posted this post )

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WELFARE REFORM BILL EXPLANATORY NOTES:

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145. Paragraph 64 amends the State Pension Credit Act 2002 so that a member of a couple who has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit may not receive state pension credit if the other member of the couple has not attained that qualifying age. This is to ensure that all claimants who have not attained the qualifying age for state pension credit are required to claim universal credit and, if appropriate, be subject to work-related conditions of entitlement.

And in the Welfare Reform Bill itself,

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Page 113
State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16)

Paragraph 64 In section 4 of the State Pension Credit Act 2002 (exclusions), after subsection
(1) there is inserted—

“(1A) A claimant is not entitled to state pension credit if he is a member of
a couple the other member of which has not attained the qualifying age.”

Oh please no! They are going to stop pension credit to people who have partners that are under the qualifying age. This is devastating news.

San100 wrote:

Oh please no! They are going to stop pension credit to people who have partners that are under the qualifying age. This is devastating news.

Yes it has caused many tears here, I am also SDA + HRC/HRM with a husband 11 years my senior on pension credit. It is possible that he would be nearly 80 before he got any Credits if they cancel it for those already in receipt

As a result of all thses changes going through at present it has now cost the Taxpayer more as I have been offered a Health Care Package due to after all these years suffering Mental Health problems which I never had before this dratted Condem lot had their great ideas !!!