Please ask your MP, MSP or MS to support the petition now with parliament to backdate council tax discounts for people with dementia to the date that they were first diagnosed be their GP, https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commo...22061653000009/CouncilTaxDiscountsForDementia by writing to them using https://www.writetothem.com/ |
Petition for people with dementia of all ages who receive either Attendance Allowance or PIP/DLA
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Thanks again nitram, it's a good job you are looking out for me. I don't know if it will work but I have put a twitter link in the following message that is supposed to go to this mornings GB News item. If you get a chance can you see if it works?
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Link works even though I don't subscribe to twitter.
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Link works even though I don't subscribe to twitter.
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Please email your MP, MSP or MS and ask them to support the petition now with parliament to backdate council tax discounts for people with dementia to the date that they were first diagnosed be their GP, https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commo...22061653000009/CouncilTaxDiscountsForDementia by emailing them using https://www.writetothem.com/ Please watch the GB News item |
Only messages from people living within an MP’s constituency will be read by the MP. Please email your MP using https://www.writetothem.com/ and ask them to support the petition in parliament to help peple with dementia https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commo...22061653000009/CouncilTaxDiscountsForDementia |
Rishi Sunak has presented a petition to help 152,000 people with dementia with their council tax bills. Please email your MP using https://www.writetothem.com and ask for their support. https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commo...22061653000009/CouncilTaxDiscountsForDementia |
Less than 3% of people in the UK with Dementia receive council tax discounts from the date they are diagnosed. Rishi Sunak has put forward a petition to support an additional 152,000. Ask your MP to support the petition by using https://www.writetothem.com regarding https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commo...22061653000009/CouncilTaxDiscountsForDementia |
I do not know if you think it would help your argument to point out that at least one County Council (mine - Carmarthenshire, Wales) already has the following wording on the claim form:
"A council Tax exemption/reduction may be backdated to the point of diagnosis. For the purposes of this form, please enter the first point at which you would consider the patient to be SMI."
Sorry, I posted this before realising that the issue has already been addressed by earlier posts (I'm new here and still struggling to get to grips with the way it works!)
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Yes Pejic some 127 out of 382 Councils already backdate to the date of GP certification. My petitions have ben to get the remaining 255 councils to do the same. I have since managed to get our MP, Rishi Sunak to present a petition directly into parliament.
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Over 152,000 families with dementia can benefit from assistance with their council tax bills if the petition submitted by Rishi Sunak receives government approval. Please ask your MP to support the proposal by emailing them using https://writetothem.com regarding https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commo...22061653000009/CouncilTaxDiscountsForDementia |
Because only messages from people living within an MP’s constituency will be read by their MP, it is important that, everyone, please email your MP using https://www.writetothem.com/ and ask them to support the petition in parliament to help people with dementia with their council tax https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commo...22061653000009/CouncilTaxDiscountsForDementia |
Hi Agzy. You do not need a formal diagnosis when applying for either Attendance Allowance or Council Tax SMI discount. I appreciate what you are saying but a GP has to certify when they believe the person was first Severely Mentally Impaired and they have a set of criteria laid down that they have to meet.
Do you know what these criteria are? OH receives DLA, but does not have a diagnosis and I dont know if he would be eligible
The doctor has to sign that the patient ' has a severe impairment of intelligence and social functioning (however caused) which appears to be permanent.'
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/14/schedule/1/crossheading/the-severely-mentally-impaired .
It's up to the doctor to interpret and decide.
Being unable to follow a fast moving conversation could be a severe impairment of social functioning.
Have a talk with GP (maybe currently not easy) and see if they would sign.
Thank you @nitram
Its somewhat subjective though and OH has a terrific Host Mode. Without a diagnosis (and the GP thinking I am exaggerating), I doubt he would get it - particularly as someone (I dont know who) recently suggested to the GP that it might be helpful for OH to be referred to the memory clinic, the practice nurse did his MMSE (which he still aced) and the GP rung and told me cheerfully that there was no sign of any dementia (sigh)
Its somewhat subjective though and OH has a terrific Host Mode. Without a diagnosis (and the GP thinking I am exaggerating), I doubt he would get it - particularly as someone (I dont know who) recently suggested to the GP that it might be helpful for OH to be referred to the memory clinic, the practice nurse did his MMSE (which he still aced) and the GP rung and told me cheerfully that there was no sign of any dementia (sigh)
I have petition the English and the Scottish Parliaments to backdate council tax discounts for people with dementia to the date of GP certification. Can anyone living in Wales with the passion and determination help me petition the Welsh parliament? I have prepared the wording.
