Giving to too many charities at once
Posted by: frilly
29th Jan 2010 02:28pm
They seem to want more and more each year they say their costs are going up but so are mine and we are on fixed incomes. I am disabled and we are on a pension.
This seems to have no affect when told to them perhaps I should jump on their list LOL. Certain charities help pay outstanding fines etc that people "find they are unable to pay" This is so wrong they should never be given money.
Vouchers or coupons. We see so many TV reports showing how young people and perhaps not so young blatantly tell their stories about how they can live up in Byron Bay on the "Dole"
How can they do this when we have to list every source of income we have and our pension goes up and down even weekly in tune with our assets. The fact that these assets we cannot cash in as the interest from them supply the remainder of our pension.
We thought we had totally covered ourselves for our retirement until the market crashed.
That was the biggest shock of all to find so much money had just disappeared. Now we have to keep Centrelink informed of every change in our financial situation. How do these others manage to get money so easily
One more thing, I said I was disable, it means lots of Drs and hospital visits. We can almost guarantee that after a hospital visit we will receive a request for a Charity at that hospital. Charities are exempt from the "Blocking of unwanted calls"
frilly
- 23rd Aug 2010 08:36pm
I also understood we could be put on a "Do not call register" but I was informed by a very knowledgeable person that Charities are exempt from this role.
I must admit I put us on that role aquite a few years ago and I am now inundated with calls for money.
I am actually disabled and my husband is my Carer, recognised "Official" because a few years ago I needed 24 hr care. Well. I received a call from :meals on wheels" asking for us to be part of it as my husband is retired. Where and what right had they to that information?
I said sorry I was disabled and my husband was 75 and my Carer. This means he literally does virtually everything to look after me and the house.
She turned around and told me that he must have some free time somewhere and they had older people than him as helpers and put the phone down. I was left spluttering. I tried to find an address or phone number but couldn't to tell them of my experience.
Look we give to about 5 Official charities and then there are the ones that you get the really heartbreaking story that comes several times a year. I cannot stop them by ignoring I have found, so I put a note in now, listing some of my worst illnesses and say this "whatever amount" I put in is the last. That does stop quite a few the ones that are obviously connected It does show them up as they stop together. We have enormous medical bills but we pay our medical insurance and manage. it is not easy but the phone ringing and tyhe leters every day.it is tiring
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