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What are the biggest financial concerns for you as a carer?

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jaykay777

Living in the U.S., I was afraid that husband's and my incomes were too high for him to be eligible for Medicaid coverage of his nursing home costs. I turned out that he was eligible. I see this as being a somewhat different issue than the cost of care homes because ultimately I did not have to bear the cost of my husband's stay in the nursing home.

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jojam

I'm not a carer

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florence2

I have to take my husband to and from dialysis three times a week. We can have transport but it is awful and can add up to four hours on to a four hour dialysis session. He has co-morbidities and frequent hisoital appts, minimum cost of hospital parking is £2 with no blue badge concession. We need a reliable car and we spend a lot of money keeping it in good condition. NHS do not help with transport l osts

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bantam12 in reply to florence2

My husband has dialysis 3 times a week and numerous hospital apps for lots of other problems, all his transport is covered by a local private taxi company arranged via the hospital/council transport dept, there are occasional hiccups but on the whole it works very well. Your husbands dialysis unit should be able to organise reliable transport, it's part of their job to coordinate this.

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florence2

I thoroughly agree with you but where we live we are at the mercy of G4S who control all of the transport for Kent They are not even based in Kent and some of their drivers have no local knowledge and rely heavily on the sat nav. My husband now uses them only infrequently but other people who have no alternative to G4s regularly wait hour to hour and a half after they have finished their dialysis before their transport turns up. Some are picked up and left at the unit at 11.45 for a 1.00 appt and the same in the evening making a four hour session an eight hour stint. My husband used to have transport occasionally but he was being brought home at 7.45 after coming off at 5.15& ish. He is one of three or four people in the vehicle or ambulance and it is a lottery who is dropped off first. Transport appears to be no issue where you live as it is locally controlled not farmed out to the cheapest bidder who then ignore every aspect of their mission statement.

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may61

The time between claiming and receiving the allowance same concerns for pip What do they expect you to live on