Benefits in the UK

I am not sure what to make of this. I found out today, that people with no limbs can no longer claim disability living allowance in the UK. This is because the new government has now deemed these people fit for work and every employer in the country now has an obligiation to employ, technically, disabled people. So, now they can get employed, they can no longer claim DLA.

Please help me, I'm feeling a bit witf'd right now.

I mean if they can't claim DLA, who the fuck can?

and don't go telling me "mentally disabled people can still claim it" because they don't, they all work in Tescos.

DLA is to do with care and whether you need help with mobility, not whether you are able to work or not. I doubt even the conservatives would deny DLA to someone with no limbs. Are you getting confused with EAS and the work capabilty assesments and all that bollocks?

  On 7/26/2010 at 2:36 AM, kakapo said:

DLA is to do with care and whether you need help with mobility, not whether you are able to work or not. I doubt even the conservatives would deny DLA to someone with no limbs. Are you getting confused with EAS and the work capabilty assesments and all that bollocks?

No mate, went for a medical on Friday and had an appointment with my representative. What I just said is 100% truth.

Their aim is to pull as many people as possible off DLA and ESA as possible. They want 90% of all applicants off the list by the end of 2010.

and yes, exactly, a lot of no limbed people need help with mobility and care and were previously deemed unfit for work. Well not anymore.

  On 7/26/2010 at 2:45 AM, abusivegeorge said:

  On 7/26/2010 at 2:36 AM, kakapo said:

DLA is to do with care and whether you need help with mobility, not whether you are able to work or not. I doubt even the conservatives would deny DLA to someone with no limbs. Are you getting confused with EAS and the work capabilty assesments and all that bollocks?

 

No mate, went for a medical on Friday and had an appointment with my representative. What I just said is 100% truth.

 

Their aim is to pull as many people as possible off DLA and ESA as possible. They want 90% of all applicants off the list by the end of 2010.

 

and yes, exactly, a lot of no limbed people need help with mobility and care and were previously deemed unfit for work. Well not anymore.

You need a new representative, he's mental. They want to cut down on the number of EAS claimants, but their target is nowhere near 90%. They won't be denying DLA to people with no limbs.

  On 7/26/2010 at 2:54 AM, kakapo said:

  On 7/26/2010 at 2:45 AM, abusivegeorge said:

  On 7/26/2010 at 2:36 AM, kakapo said:

DLA is to do with care and whether you need help with mobility, not whether you are able to work or not. I doubt even the conservatives would deny DLA to someone with no limbs. Are you getting confused with EAS and the work capabilty assesments and all that bollocks?

 

No mate, went for a medical on Friday and had an appointment with my representative. What I just said is 100% truth.

 

Their aim is to pull as many people as possible off DLA and ESA as possible. They want 90% of all applicants off the list by the end of 2010.

 

and yes, exactly, a lot of no limbed people need help with mobility and care and were previously deemed unfit for work. Well not anymore.

 

You need a new representative, he's mental. They want to cut down on the number of EAS claimants, but their target is nowhere near 90%. They won't be denying DLA to people with no limbs.

It wasn't my representative that told me that, it was my friend who works for the DWP. My representative happened to bring it up, because they are pulling two of my disabled friends off of DLA, and I myself have just had the medical for it again, the second time in a month. One of my friends who's just been pulled off has no arms.

So honestly, they are.

The other guy has just had an artifical hip replacement.

Also: thread bump

  On 7/26/2010 at 3:46 AM, abusivegeorge said:

The other guy has just had an artifical hip replacement.

 

Also: thread bump

You have some old friends.

Lol on the contrary the guy with no arms is 55

The guy with the artificial hip is 22!

lol well then he doesn't need any mobility assistance...;)

Nah but in all seriousness, if they are doing this, get word out to the newspapers. Make it an issue. That's fucked up.

  On 7/26/2010 at 2:55 AM, abusivegeorge said:

One of my friends who's just been pulled off has no arms.

is it bad that i find this sentence extremely funny, in the context of not having any arms so they have to be "pulled off"?

sorry, no offence meant. i'm just a little wired from lack of sleep

  On 7/26/2010 at 10:14 AM, chenGOD said:

lol well then he doesn't need any mobility assistance...;)

 

Nah but in all seriousness, if they are doing this, get word out to the newspapers. Make it an issue. That's fucked up.

Aye, it's already been all over the local paper this Sunday, I can't see it continuing the way it is, people are mega pissed.

  On 7/26/2010 at 10:16 AM, oscillik said:

  On 7/26/2010 at 2:55 AM, abusivegeorge said:

One of my friends who's just been pulled off has no arms.

is it bad that i find this sentence extremely funny, in the context of not having any arms so they have to be "pulled off"?

 

sorry, no offence meant. i'm just a little wired from lack of sleep

I lolled when I was writing it mate

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