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Originally Posted by MissKittyFantastico
I was just reading there that they are going to limit the length of time that the long term sick can claim incapacity benefit to six months to a year and they will then be forced onto either Jobseekers or ESA (which as far as I was aware was designed for people who are able to go back into work at some point in the future. The levels of payment will be a lot lower on ESA, and why the hell should genuine, long term and even terminally ill people receive less money? Bearing in mind you don't even get your prescriptions paid for if you are on incapacity, which is just ludicrous.
Also these new medical assessments for incapacity and ESA are meant to have even less mental health related criteria, with questions like 'can you count backwards from 100' and if you can walk 200 metres unaided then you are deemed fit for work. This means that people with genuine mental health problems are going to be deemed fit for work and shunted onto Jobseekers Allowance when they are actually in no fit state to even be looking for work. 40% of claimants with mental health issues win their appeal against decisions made to stop their benefits, doesn't that tell you how woefully ignorant the DWA are on this subject? And it's only going to get worse.
I agree that cuts do need to be made, but it seems to me that once again it's the poorest and more vulnerable that will be made to suffer, rather than the fat cat bankers that got us into this mess in the first place.
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If that is true, then that is ****ing ridiculous. I havent read anything about these cuts yet...so just going on what is said here. I dont particularly want to read anything either, because it will wind me up too much, Basically more rich people getting richer and poorer people getting hit hard from the sounds of it :/
I know many people laugh off mental health problems...and say that people who are mentally ill rather than physically ill should be working, but until you have been in that situation yourself, you can say nothing. And the above proposal, is just stupid. Employers will think that also, when they have to take on applicants who, for example suffer really bad anxiety. They will find that they have more sick days than anything else...and the person who has been forced into work will be fired more times than enough.
I have actually never read anything as ridiculous as this in my life. Pathetic. Are the people who make these kind of **** decisions actually qualified? Doesnt seem that way. They obviously have no common sense :/