Disabled Facilities Grants

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By kerry.

Re: Disabled Facilities Grants
Fri 25 Apr 2008 18:56

yep.
am on 2nd one now.

you need to contact your OT dept first.

it aint easy tho- im still waiting for new gates after nearly 4 yrs!

By Carmen-Miranda

Re: Disabled Facilities Grants
Fri 25 Apr 2008 20:32

We are also on our 2nd attempt must be mad to go back and try again, we applied 1st about 9yrs ago and things haven't changed much, they don't seem to have learned much about how to use the money wisely or how to deal with people, our 2nd attempt has taken nearly 3yrs I think you could get blood from a stone quicker, how do you find the Services OTs etc?

By Carmen-Miranda

Re: Disabled Facilities Grants
Fri 25 Apr 2008 20:48

We still waiting too

By ann31bel

Re: Disabled Facilities Grants
Sun 27 Apr 2008 17:08

Hi Carmen-Miranda.

We have been fighting for 4 years now for the DFG to extended our house and get a downstairs bathroom and hoists and a ramp and widen inner doors for the wheelchair!! It will make Kieran's life sooo much better and ours.

Success at last it has all been passed by the panell and our approval letters arrived last friday and the builders are starting

TOMMORROW!!!!!!!
but i will not hold my breathe until i see the digger and builders in my back garden i will not believe it!! lol

It has been a nightnmare i i dont want to have to go though it all again so i am definetly staying put here and never moving once its completed.

I hope you are successful with yours and it will not be too much longer, i did tell my socail worker i would have to put Kieran into care if they didnt hurry up as he is 15 now and i am still carrying him upstairs for baths!!

Good Luck and hopefully talk to you in the chat room sometime.

Ann xXx

By Carmen-Miranda

Re: Disabled Facilities Grants
Sun 27 Apr 2008 23:38

Well done to you it is really hard work and all the stress involved is unexplainable, I know what you mean about not holding your breath we have been there and back again with this one, but I am also glad to hear that there maybe some light at the end.
thank you for your reply and Best of Luck to you also.

By mini1here

Re: Disabled Facilities Grants
Mon 28 Apr 2008 13:23

i feel im lucky ive had a two storey extension on my house for my disabled son but with saying that if i had been paying for it i would have sacked the cowboy builders

By kerry.

Re: Disabled Facilities Grants
Mon 28 Apr 2008 19:00

we wanted a small porch and side gates as we live right on the a5.
we have been led the merriest dance possible, being told eventually by our case worker that yes the porch and gates had been approved at last (this was after nearly 2 yrs) and that would be started in 8 weeks finished in 11....

that was 2 yrs ago.

since then ive been visited by the head of OT who really does have her head up her arse, who told me that nothing had even been approved and she doesnt know where i got that idea (erm... probably from the ot case worker who rang me to tell me!)
and no way could we have a porch...
if we want we can have blocks of wood attached to windows to stop them escaping (but of course if there is a fire, tough s**t on the girls whos bedrooms ar ethere cos theyll be trapped)
and we can have a key pad.... (that will last about 5 minutes til siddie smashes it)

that was agreed... hmmmm let me think... about 18 months ago....

we are still waiting...

watch this space guys.

By kerry.

Re: Disabled Facilities Grants
Mon 28 Apr 2008 19:02

this is anglesey county council by the way
anglesey north wales OT department.
what do i think of them??????????

Now i really dont think its wise that i answer that one on a public forum !!!!!!!!!!

By ann31bel

Re: Disabled Facilities Grants
Mon 28 Apr 2008 20:49

Hi Carmen-Miranda.

THE BUILDERS arrived this morning and we have a digger in our garden!! I think i can start to believe that our lifes are going to get slightly easier!! i am so excited.

Ann. xXx

By Carmen-Miranda

Re: Disabled Facilities Grants
Mon 28 Apr 2008 22:00

Hi again Ann glad things are starting for you at last.