Government Wastes £440 Million Trying to Overturn Disability Benefit Claims | Beastrabban\’s Weblog
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The Tories and Blairites – ’cause it was Blair who introduced the vile Work Capability Tests – are convinced and would like you to believe that a large portion of claims for disability benefit are fraudulent.
Thanks to right-wing rags like the Heil, the British public believes that 25% of all disability claims are fake. In fact… the overwhelming number of claims for disability benefits are genuine. Only a vanishingly small number, less than 1 per cent, are attempts to defraud the benefits system.
But obviously, this detracts from the Tory desire to punish the poor for not working or being able to work, while they could be gainfully exploited by all the rich industrialists they want to give massive tax cuts to.
And so we have suffered 40-odd years of Thatcherite cuts to the benefits system while Tory and Blairite mouthpieces have told us that such cuts are ‘self-help’, encouraging self-reliance, going to revive proper Christian charity and private initiative without the safety net of the state.
The principle of less eligibility – how the whole process of claiming state support was to be as unpleasant as possible in order to deter people from doing so – was one of [Thatcher’s] ‘Victorian Values’ that she wished to reintroduce into the welfare system.
So did Blair, who created the Work Capability Tests because of pseudoscientific, discredited research on behalf of US insurance fraudster Unum. This assumed that most disability claims were fake, and that getting people back into work would do them good.
The assumption that a certain percentage of all disability claims were fake has led, according to whistleblowers, to the imposition of quotas… which demand that a set percentage of disability claims should be turned down.
This has led to severely ill, even terminally so patients, being judged fit for work. It has led to moronic … clerks asking amputees when their absent limbs are expected to grow back. And it has led to hundreds, if not thousands of genuinely sick and disabled people dying from poverty and hunger because they were denied an income.
This included people with serious mental health problems and conditions like diabetes, who were found starved to death.
It’s been denounced by disability activists as a genocide. Harsh words, but this is mass murder by governments who know exactly what the consequences of these sanctions are. They just don’t want you to know.
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I spent many years working as a Civil Servant and know the absolute lies and BS that is said to the public on one hand and the horrible truth they tell the Civil Service. An example I often give is that the size of the DWP Fraud Office in most average towns is bigger than the Tax Fraud Office in Scotland. This is how they prioritise and it’s not just the Tories, it’s been like this since forever. DWP Fraud Offices will investigate cases as low as £50 but Tax Fraud will have to be £tens of thousands and have all of the evidence attached before passing to the Fraud Office – this is how much they must prioritise their workload ie no ‘investigations’ and bigger cases only.
Our politicians have every intent of lying to the public and I have, along with many of my colleagues, had memos from politicians telling us to lie to the public if asked ‘certain questions’ It has left me with no respect for those who serve in the cabinet of any government. They know the truth and simply pander to the bigotry of their voters and seek to unjustly enrich themselves on the back of those who pay the most – ie the low rate PAYE employees.
What’s needed is a party who will represent the workers and their families, who will look after the poor, the sick & disabled and the pensioners and who will make sure that the NHS is truly what it was set out to be. We need a party who will make university education accessible to all and stop the rich screwing the system and paying their fair share. We need fairness and a progressive party. It’s not much to ask so why is it not represented in UK politics??