Reading the front page of the Daily Mail today, you could be forgiven for thinking that the government’s new system for assessing who should get incapacity benefits had been a roaring success.
Just one in 14 claimants has been found unfit to work, according to stats from DWP, suggesting the new test has rooted out an incredible number of people who were never entitled to claim IB in the first place.
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e-petition - Stop Unfair Re-assessments For Disabled People
Responsible department: Department for Work and Pensions
Stop the unfair and cruel re-assessments via ATOS for disabled people currently on Incapacity Benefit. ESA is a flawed benefit, and puts terrible pressure and stress on vulnerable people, putting people who cannot work on lesser benefits and applying sanctions. Let disabled people decide for themselves if they can work, they and their carers know best.
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If the welfare state goes, private insurance will step in. They’ll need advertising, and there’s your motive for the recent behaviour of the press.
I can’t help thinking it would be more useful to our case to simply present the link to the article, rather than copying it wholesale. Beyond the bad taste this leaves in my mouth over copyright violation, it encourages people to visit the FT website and add to the facts in the article with their personal experiences and additional facts and corrections (as I have done), bringing them to the attention of the people who don’t know the truth of our situation, rather than confining them to those who do.
I’ve changed it to an excerpt Dave so that sorts the copyright issue, (I’ve a licence to copy Guardian and some other articles in full), and I agree about directing people to the article so that they can post comments there too.
If you cant work no-one can make you. You wont last
speaking of insurance, people who are so anti public services and tax should take in consideration that the principle of insurance is similar – you all pay in, and those who need it get funded. The difference is that you are less likely to need your insurance and more likely to access some form of public service. does that make sense?