DWP strategy for the disabled.

It all looks very laudible at first reading, until you dig under the surface.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...ment-gap-in-uk

and find this!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...h-damian-green


What it means is that the 'nasty party' won't allow the sick and disabled to sit at home and recover, instead they will be pushed into crap jobs paying little or nothing above NMW irrespective of whether they can actually do the job and taking no account of an individual's circumstances, merely to get them off the register. We've been here so many times previously!!!

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I thought they were going to stop the work assessment for chronic conditions?
Someone with severe arthritis is not going to get better and if forced to work they will not be fit enough to maintain their care and housework etc as they'd be too worn out. What happens then? Social Services stepping in or social landlords evicting them for not keeping the house and tidy!
Why can't they just accept that some won't be able to manage work, especially now that the pension age had been raised.
Where are the jobs coming from?
Surely better to leave jobs for school leavers and mums with children.

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As i said elsewhere this is the way they continue to find ways to attack those less well able to defend themselves, and continence of destruction of a welfare support system.

I dont trust this government or its leader, to do the right thing.

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Some people are fit enough to work but use illness as an excuse not to do so. It is only right they should be periodically assessed.

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It's easy saying that some people suffer silently or have good and bad days. i think if we had 100 percent employment and jobs to be had it may be different but very low paid jobs these people will be asked to do tends to be physical, if they were given easy office work sitting it might be different but that's not what they will end up doing.

One man my husband worked with briefly was signed off sick benefit he had been on for 17 years, physically fit they said, he did 4 days before he hit the man training him, another 3 before he tried to strangle the manager, when he was asked to leave the premises he took a carpet knife and attempted to kill the manager if the men in the warehouse hadn't tackled him it would have ended badly. Turned out he was physically fit alright but completely mentally unable to be in a work place. Bet his neighbours had said over that 17 years why is he getting benefit big fit man like that.

A friend of ours lost a leg and an arm, meningitis, he is checked by the system each year oddly neither appendage has grown back, luckily he has a sense of humour and waves his stumps at them and says nope no regrowth, but it's so stressful for many other people.

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well said Julie

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I think they should pay for a GP assessment by someone who knows the person instead of a stranger going on first impressions in a stressful interview!
Surely the person's medical history should be the main source of proof for benefits.
Perhaps there are jobs people could do at home for government departments, cut down on staff there!

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Hi

We have many disabled who would relish the chance of having a job, even if it is only for a few hours a week.

We should support them, if they can only do a few hours and are willing to do so, they should get the Minimum Wage for a full weeks work.

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That requires the claimant's permission to release such sensative information to nameless, faceless bureaucrats. Not everyone would agree to that.

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Another point is that people with painful conditions will be forced to take more medication in order to do certain jobs, that can't be a good thing!
Also there's the fear of letting your employer and co workers down if you have to have time off and them getting annoyed with you for doing so.