Carer's allowance

[kawazuki]

doesnt hurt to fill out the form does it

[Pretty Butterfly]

I find it amazing the people who do and dont qualify. It is completley up to how your doc fills out the form from Centrelink.

I have recieved nothing for Kane, with all the problems we have, and will have for years to come, speech being a HUGE one. We have to travel to Sydney for speech testing and therapy, and still not a cent.

I have had 2 different docs fill out the form, and we still didn't get it.....

Good luck sweets. If you are entitled, I hope you get it.

P.S..... Its a lengthy form for a doc to fill out... you will payment depending on how Cenrelink assess that form.....

[~clover~]

Really? I wonder why you don't? That seems unfair?
I'll ask about it. Have no idea how it'd go, but I may as well.

[Pretty Butterfly]

Definatly babe.
Just call Centrelink and they can post you the forms. There is a Carers Allowance, and Carers Payment , 2 seperate things.
You take them to her doc and they have to fill them out.

It really is 50/50 weather you will or not.
A friend has 3 asthmatic kids, who require nothing more than puffers through winter, and she gets it for 3 kids.
I have 2 asthmatic sons, on meds full time, I didn't get it for them ....

[Lulu]

Apply anyway.
You never know. Is the speech therapy costing you much?

[~clover~]

Apply anyway.
You never know. Is the speech therapy costing you much?

Not right now, coz I'm through the public one, but she hasn't been returning calls & stuff so I'm thinking I'll have to find someone else who will keep up with it, which would mean going private. I'd like it to be more than once a month too.

[briggsy's girl]

PB - appeal it
if you're having specialist care, you can appeal it - you can appeal ANY decision made by c'link if you don't believe it to be fair. if the doctor has filled the form in such that you don't get a high enough rating, you can appeal it and provide YOUR statement as to what you have to do for your child that is above and beyond what is "normal" care

[Lulu]

PB, I *think your friend might just have been granted the Health Care Card for the puffers? Or does she recieve some $$$?

[Pretty Butterfly]

hhhmm, not sure Lulu, she says she gets extra money....

BG... I will!!!! He is under a LOT of specialists care!!!

We are down to 1 speechie here in town, and Kanes STILL hasn't even had 1 app yet! So far they are all in Sydney..... last month we went down for speech, $300 later..... for 1 speech app!!!! And he's hearing has dropped too.....

[~clover~]

We had that problem PB. i tried to start Bri when she was 3, but there was no speechie at Coonabarabran, which was an hour & a half from us.
It'd be closer to come here wouldn't it? Gotta be closer than Sydney! Thats just rediculus. It did take us 3 or so months to get in here.