rlHousing benefit rules found to discriminate against disabled childrenrl

The appeal court has decided that criteria used to determine how much housing benefit can be paid to a family renting in the private sector is prejudicial to disabled children. Wiltshire Council and the Department for Work and Pension’s, had failed to take account of the children’s additional needs and by doing so they breached British human rights law.

No doubt this government's solution will be to amend the human rights laws

rlSleepwalking into fascism?rl

An interesting view of the way language and some of the buzzwords used are helping to divide our nation.

To be fair (ish) to the tabloid gutter press they are fed these stories on a very frequent basis now from the likes of IDS's and Graylings press office. Belonging to a few different disability groups around the net I tend to read most of the daily disability press stories and reports and usually you can quote the same article almost word for word in the different papers. The DM just lifted IDS's disgraceful rant that was in the Telegraph the other day, only with a different headline, as I'm sure most of the other press did the same.

Off the top of my head I saw a document which gave a breakdown of the disgusting words used in these sorts of headlines ie Scrounger, handouts etc used x amount of times in a three month period etc etc and quite frankly it was a disgrace.

rlThis must be a new low, even for Atosrl

That is ...

Words fail me. Awful. Utterly awful.

I am not trying to make light if what is a truly awful situation but what's the betting that they will have to fill another form in next year just in case 'He gets better'.
I hate using the word but I'm seriously struggling to find another word beside 'Scum' to discribe them!!!

They are testing people around every 12 months even in the Support Group. I'm reading stories of people appealing their decision to be in the Work Related Activity Group, going through the process, sucessfully appealling, being placed in the Support Group and literally one week later getting the forms through the door to go through the whole process all over again. Its an absolute disgrace, not to mention time and money wasting for everyone.

This mans situation does not surprise me. Its been well documented that a man laid in a hospital bed in a in a coma (wife filled out the forms, obviously) was found fit for work.

How people can condone what this government is doing to sick and disabled in regards to the WRB is beyond me.

Nobody has any issues with likes of Hull White Star - genuine claimants - getting the disability. The question is how do you stop the abuse of the system?

Not by placing most claimants into the "fit for work" pile, as is clearly happening now. They are considered guilty until proven innocent. But Ian Duncan Smith obviously has a problem with Steph's claim because he's trying to stop it.

This is what happens when you get a bunch of self-serving, venal bastads running the country. There are already highly-paid, highly-trained professionals making decisions on who is or is not fit for work. They are called doctors and other medical professionals but in order to appear to be tackling the "problem", this government believe that their word is not to be trusted over that of a private-sector employee, with little medical knowledge and absolutely no knowledge of the claimant's condition. They (Cameron & chums) then provide the perfect background to set the working poor against the non-working poor. read my earlier post regarding sleepwalking into fascism.

rlTry reading thisrl

So are you saying that all those claim disability are entitled to claim? I personally don't believe that to be case, in my own family I know of 3 disability claimants who should not be claiming. One has just been asked to return 100k of drug dealing gains yet he still claims disability!!

You're not saying "a deaf and blind man who is fed through a tube and needs 24-hour care is fit for work because I come from a family of drug-dealing fraudsters" are you?

Of course not, that would be silly.

But it does sound awfully close to saying that.

No, I am saying that the number of fraudulent benefit claims do not warrant the systems that have been introduced and their concomitant costs.

In their rush to bring private enterprise to the system, all in the name of saving the exchequer money, I wonder why they haven't proposed something similar to recoup the £ billions lost to the revenue through tax evasion? You could bet your life if a private company was contracted to find and claim all of this money, for a percentage of the claim, the exchequer would benefit far more than attempting to get the disabled to jump through hoops.

When did you shop the three fraudulent claimants in your family and what was the outcome?