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Originally Posted by joeysteele
Oh I have to disagree with the 50% figure, I could maybe stretch to,from my own experience of helping people on disabled benefits and my own gathering of knowledge as to the issue,4% to 5% as a maximum.
The problems are lying with the testing and assessing of the sick and disabled and the silly questions like can you out a pen in your top pocket, can you move a pint of milk from one place to another.
Ridiculously stupid questions like that,I child of just under 3 could do those things but certainly couldn't work.
I through the law firm I am with at present,and also my interests with certain welfare groups too, have been involved in part with appeals against losses of benefits,which the DWP said were wrongly being claimed.
The number of those appeals is rising ever upward and I have come across from my experience and others experiences too,hundreds of such appeals being made.
Hundreds being too the likely tip of the iceberg.
I also have yet to see an appeal not upheld by the court once it gets that far and the so called wrong payment of benefits, being fully restored.
It is this demonisation and wrong representation of the facts as to the disabled and sick that is adding to the massive stress they are already under with this govts.shocking welfare changes.
I guess it comes easy to demonise and attack the weakest in a society.
For me however, instead of attacking them, I'd prefer we were nurturing them and helping make sure they are being built up not brought down even more by joining in the pack attack on them.
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rubbish. its the false claimants , the lazy , workless, demotivated fops who milk the benefits who are effectively stelaing money from the disabled, the sick and elderly and from the tax payers. these lazy bums have always got some pitiful excuse, well to hell with their excuses get the money off them and send them to work. then use the saved welfare benefits to pay the disabled and elderly more
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