The 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, unemploymentTory plans for the sick and unemployed are dangerous and crazy
It must be loony Tuesday. The Tories have announced plans to have all 2.64 million incapacity benefit claimants reassessed by doctors and, if passed fit for work, placed on Jobseekers’ Allowance, which would mean a benefit cut of £20 a week. That is, if they win the next General Election. Presumably they’ll all be lined up in grey overalls, have their heads shaved, and be forced to file through a gate so they can all get examined by men in white coats in time for the following General Election? Insane!
tags: benefits, Conservatives, incapacity, policy, politics, unemployment
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