madzone said:
too give something for the dole scroungers to do...not as if they are busy or anything izzit.
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too give something for the dole scroungers to do...not as if they are busy or anything izzit.
madzone said:You're very organised
Just put down everything you can think of and be prepared for them only funding about half of it. They usually give you the money to buy stuff new so if you buy second hand you can usually get evrything you need. There's a couple of projects round here that sell 2nd hand furniture at low cost to people on certain benefits, do you have anything like that round your way?
And try and think of a reason why you should get it, if it's not standard basic stuff.....eg I need a microwave because what is wrong with me means I struggle to cook on a cooker every day (They still ahve to give you a cooker cos you ahve to have one), etc
Grandma Death
Reconfiguring & Reconstructing
madzone said:
I've no idea mate-I dont find it bizarre....cause Ive never used the online forms
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Sorry if this depresses you further, but I think they view a washing machine as non-essential - unless there is some medical reason for you needing a washing machine, say continence problems, or maybe asthma to wash off dust and stuff (the former for sure but I'm guessing at the latter), or maybe if you have mobility problem that mean you can't get to a laundrette.Enid Laundromat said:
For a regular, physically healthy adult, they expect you to trawl to the launderette or do your washing by hand.
You might be able to pick one up on freecyle though, or cheaply through a local furniture project or e-bay/classified ads.
Nah, I'd be more depressed if I was expecting a washing machine and got told it wasn't essential when I'd spent all my savings on paint or something, at least I'm prepared.AnnO'Neemus said:
One of my flatmates got an offer yesterday BTW, meaning I'm a step up the ladder, woohoo!
LilMissHissyFit
Disturbed in a pink bra
Get joined to freecycle soon as if you arent already.. offer a few bits (as I understand it you have to offer a bit before you can ask for stuff)
Then when the time comes you'll be surprised what you can get. Our old washer, working okish was in our garage. We sent ours off with a local church member to a family who lost everything in a fire. If not we'd have been offering it on freecyle or ebaying it for next to nowt
Then when the time comes you'll be surprised what you can get. Our old washer, working okish was in our garage. We sent ours off with a local church member to a family who lost everything in a fire. If not we'd have been offering it on freecyle or ebaying it for next to nowt
Grandma Death
Reconfiguring & Reconstructing
Enid Laundromat said:
No it doesn't sorry to piss on your chips
Social Housing registers are not like lists that people move up as somebody on the top gets rehoused. They are fluid and change every day. You may be close to the top one day and pushed down the next by several applicants whose needs are greater than yours.
As I understand it, in the hostel I'm in you're considered for rehousing when your cycle of care is complete (which I am). Every so often they (the people who manage my hostel) get council and HA places offered to them and they choose which of their clients receive it. If you're deemed ready for move on and you've been there for two years, you'll get a place offered to you before somebody else who is ready for move on who has only been living there for a year. Does that make sense?Grandma Death said:No it doesn't sorry to piss on your chips
Social Housing registers are not like lists that people move up as somebody on the top gets rehoused. They are fluid and change every day. You may be close to the top one day and pushed down the next by several applicants whose needs are greater than yours.
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
Yes, and alternatives can be worse as well as better.Pavlik said:
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