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Pregnant women are a vulnerable group, and need extra vitamins, along with pensioners (who get a nice tidy sum in pension credit instead). They should get an extra payment for it. Everyone else gets benefits that will pay for their food.
And everyone starts as a baby.
People on low income who aren't pregnant and therefore end up eating junk pretty much?
It isn't anymore expensive to eat healthily
...and hasn't been paid to new claimants since April 2001
It's still paid, of sorts, but its a premium of income support/guaranteed pension credit now. And it's only paid if you qualify through receiving the higher rate care DLA, or the higher rate attendance allowance, and don't have anyone receiving carer's allowance for their care of you.
Not really.
Fresh fruit and vegetables are no more expensive than processed foods, its just that people don't know how to cook them or use them properly.
Me and GWST live a very comfortable lifestyle on a food shop of about £40 per week, as we eat very little meat and we get things from the market.
So what you mean is, it doesn't seem fair on you because you would also like a £200 grant for healthy food?
Sofie, I manage a very healthy wheat free diet at uni, and it's cheap and easy. Fresh fruit, vegetables, rice, potatoe and seasoning goes a long way.
You can get the "Severe disability primium" if you get the medium rate of 'care' in the DLA actually
I'm lost half the time without my CPAG book. Especially at 11pm...
It's the enhanced disability premium that's only paid for the highest rate care component of DLA.
:banghead:
But that's a whole different argument.
I think you'll find it can be expensive. The food I need to eat costs at least 5 times the cost of the food that you need.
For me it's nearly impossible, but then again I've got to wait for the hospital to get back to my GP before they even think about prescriving me any food.
Anyway, getting back on topic:
In that article, it says about 29 weeks, but what happens if the baby is born before 29 weeks?
Ah yes, I can see how your special gluten-free apples are five times more expensive than my normal gluten-free apples...