A lose-lose situation: the DWP’s Catch 22. | EmsyBlog

Last Updated: September 23, 2015By

As an ill person, the expectations the DWP have of me are a bit confusing. I’m told that in order to be a productive member of society I have to work, that working is the best option for everyone and that their aim is to get everyone working. Yet, as soon as I try and be productive and proactive, I’m told I’m not ill enough to be receiving any help. Which means you cannot win. You cannot be productive while also being ill as the DWP don’t have a box for that. You can’t be a professional, an educated person because if you’re able to be educated and have a profession then you’re clearly not ill. The truth, as it always is, is far, far more complicated than that.

Me doing an MA does not means I don’t still have chronic pain.

Source: A lose-lose situation: the DWP’s Catch 22. | EmsyBlog

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10 Comments

  1. David Lowrence September 23, 2015 at 10:19 pm - Reply

    Mike, you surely must know that “Arbeit Macht Frei”

  2. Nick September 23, 2015 at 10:32 pm - Reply

    Living in the uk has always had this anomaly the same as asking for help from a charity or whatever the bottom line is there is no help the websites are eye candy only which are run by wealthy people

    The uk is the worst country in the world that i know of in which the above is found which is utter nonsense

    how this type of garbage got off the ground is unclear as back in the fifties where i grew up you got a good belting for talking like in that letter

    there were only ever 2 options and they were get involved or keep out and your mouth shut and that was it be you at school or at home put up or shut up

  3. Jeffery Davies September 24, 2015 at 5:13 am - Reply

    Don’t you mean aktion t4

    • Mike Sivier September 24, 2015 at 9:48 am - Reply

      I might have suggested that, but it isn’t my article.

  4. mrmarcpc September 24, 2015 at 2:14 pm - Reply

    The devious, evil mind of IDS knows no bounds!

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