The sour joke that is Disability Living Allowance
I’ve had a letter rejecting me for all components of Disability Living Allowance. I now have to go back to see the nice chap at the Citizens Advice Bureau, and lodge an appeal. Again, the premise outlined in the letter seems to be that you only get it if you have no arms, no legs, cannot feed yourself, clothe yourself, or anything else. Not having a head is also helpful. People in comas on life support can’t apply, so I guess this approach saves a lot of money that can be better spent on blowing up Iraqi civilians.
tags: benefits, disability, Disability Living Allowance, entitlements, rightsThe most vulnerable can expect no help from government now, or in the future
Fewer than a third of the 2.7 million or so people claiming incapacity benefit are legitimate claimants, a government welfare adviser has said. The question as always is, what counts as legitimate and what doesn’t? The answer, of course, depends on who you speak to—compare, for example, what the views of a government minister looking to make easy cuts might be, and the perspective of a person suffering from a mental illness who looks perfectly stable on the outside and has all the usual number of working limbs, but is falling apart on the inside due to extreme depression or suffers from a cognitive, that is unseen, disability.
tags: disability, incapacity benefit, mental health, sickness, stress, unemployment
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