Teenagers are losing disability benefits because the assessment system is “complex, adversarial and difficult to negotiate” – according to analysis by the BBC.
Are these the same teens who are being accused on the mass media, several times a day, of “gaming the system” or finding it easier to sit on benefits than get a job?
There seems to be a conflict of claims, here.
The BBC said nearly a third of people who had Disability Living Allowance as children were refused Personal Independence Payment when they tried to move onto it.
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The include people with life-changing conditions including cancer, blindness, psychosis, deafness and epilepsy. Are these the people Labour’s shills are saying should be getting a job rather than lounging around on benefits?
Logic suggests that they are; they have been refused benefits for their – clearly extremely serious – conditions and the government is now planning to “tighten up” criteria to ensure that people with even worse illnesses and disabilities will be forced to look for work as well.
Stories include that of a young woman who suffers life-threatening epileptic seizures, who was thrown off-benefit because she had not had one for a few weeks.
Ah, but the government wants her to get a job instead of relying on benefits. Good idea! … until you learn that she has had three – and lost all of them because of her epilepsy.
This is the reality of employment in the UK – if you have an illness or disability of any kind, employers don’t want to know you. They certainly won’t make adaptations for you; it would infringe on their profits.
The BBC’s analysis clearly shows that the Department for Work and Pensions’s points-based assessment system is not fit for purpose now. How much worse will it be after Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall have put their mucky fingerprints all over it?
Concerns were repeatedly raised about PIP assessors lacking knowledge of specific conditions and decisions being taken without recourse to medical evidence or contacting those involved in a claimant’s care.
Disability and welfare rights organisations say the system results in wrongful decisions, with DWP outcomes frequently overturned at tribunal.
It seems clear that the claim of young people being “lazy” and using the benefit system to avoid work is nothing more than a lie – and a particularly filthy lie at that.
Politicians complain that they feel endangered when in public, and I feel sure they will be making more such claims if they try to parrot this lie outside TV or radio studios.
But won’t they deserve to hear a strong reaction from people who know they are deliberately peddling falsehoods?
So let’s demand honesty from the festering cess pit that calls itself the UK Parliament. The benefits system is broken and should be reformed to work for the people who need it – not to save money for politicians who can’t do their jobs properly.
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Teenagers are losing disability benefits – the same teens said to be ‘gaming the system’?
Teenagers are losing disability benefits because the assessment system is “complex, adversarial and difficult to negotiate” – according to analysis by the BBC.
Are these the same teens who are being accused on the mass media, several times a day, of “gaming the system” or finding it easier to sit on benefits than get a job?
There seems to be a conflict of claims, here.
The BBC said nearly a third of people who had Disability Living Allowance as children were refused Personal Independence Payment when they tried to move onto it.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
The include people with life-changing conditions including cancer, blindness, psychosis, deafness and epilepsy. Are these the people Labour’s shills are saying should be getting a job rather than lounging around on benefits?
Logic suggests that they are; they have been refused benefits for their – clearly extremely serious – conditions and the government is now planning to “tighten up” criteria to ensure that people with even worse illnesses and disabilities will be forced to look for work as well.
Stories include that of a young woman who suffers life-threatening epileptic seizures, who was thrown off-benefit because she had not had one for a few weeks.
Ah, but the government wants her to get a job instead of relying on benefits. Good idea! … until you learn that she has had three – and lost all of them because of her epilepsy.
This is the reality of employment in the UK – if you have an illness or disability of any kind, employers don’t want to know you. They certainly won’t make adaptations for you; it would infringe on their profits.
The BBC’s analysis clearly shows that the Department for Work and Pensions’s points-based assessment system is not fit for purpose now. How much worse will it be after Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall have put their mucky fingerprints all over it?
It seems clear that the claim of young people being “lazy” and using the benefit system to avoid work is nothing more than a lie – and a particularly filthy lie at that.
Politicians complain that they feel endangered when in public, and I feel sure they will be making more such claims if they try to parrot this lie outside TV or radio studios.
But won’t they deserve to hear a strong reaction from people who know they are deliberately peddling falsehoods?
So let’s demand honesty from the festering cess pit that calls itself the UK Parliament. The benefits system is broken and should be reformed to work for the people who need it – not to save money for politicians who can’t do their jobs properly.
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