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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 4, 2023 18:48:09 GMT
I'm quite scathing of people who find it easier to claim benefits than to get off their arse and find a job, and I'm in favour of it being difficult rather than easy to live off benefits. However, this case must be an example of overzealous staff at the DWP who are under pressure to hit targets. On appeal or whatever process it is, I'm sure the decision to class this chap as 'fit for work' will be overturned. Man with MS so severe he cannot cut up his own food classed as ‘fit to workmetro.co.uk/2023/03/04/man-with-ms-who-cannot-cut-up-his-own-food-classed-as-fit-to-work-18385623/ |
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Post by jonksy on Mar 4, 2023 18:53:55 GMT
I'm quite scathing of people who find it easier to claim benefits than to get off their arse and find a job, and I'm in favour of it being difficult rather than easy to live off benefits. However, this case must be an example of overzealous staff at the DWP who are under pressure to hit targets. On appeal or whatever process it is, I'm sure the decision to class this chap as 'fit for work' will be overturned. Man with MS so severe he cannot cut up his own food classed as ‘fit to workmetro.co.uk/2023/03/04/man-with-ms-who-cannot-cut-up-his-own-food-classed-as-fit-to-work-18385623/And of course he is not the right shade of white either... |
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Mar 5, 2023 20:54:14 GMT
People with MS have to put with a lot of negative attitudes from the authorities (including doctors). My wife (who had a diagnosis of MS ... but an autopsy after her death found it was something else) experienced bouts of not being able to walk for days on end then would recover for a short while. Her speech, especially her response to questions, confused (and sometimes annoyed) people. We had to change GPs more tham once because of their attitude towards her. Once, when she was in hospital for a few days, a doctor "laid into her" verbally ... with me present. I "had words" with him and senior members of the administration got involved ... fortunately they took my side and apologised to us. A young friend of mine with MS was twice followed around ger local supermarket by staff when she was using a walking stick and her bags were searched after she'd gone through the checkout. They'd seen her walking normally without a stick on other days and thought she was a shoplifter "putting on an act". The facial expressions of people with MS are often misinterpreted as being directed at people they are conversing with. The wife of someone I knew with MS got so annoyed at their GP's attitude that she reached across his desk, snatched her husband's medical records, went out to her car and locked herself in whilst she read them ... sure enough there were "negative" statements about her husband in it ... by more than one of the doctors. They were facing eviction from their home because they were behind with their mortgage. Because his father had been in the army the British Legion paid off the arrears (over £2,000) ... this happened in the 80s when benefits for disabled people were not as easy to get as they are today.
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Post by dodgydave on Mar 6, 2023 1:59:35 GMT
I think about this quite a lot.
Our lives get worse as worse as the system attempts to defend itself from (1) the idiots (2) the cheaters.
In this case for every genuine case there will be some arsehole abusing the system by faking illness or faking the severity... and the system reacts to protect finite resources and thus hurts the genuine person.
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