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  • Indie_Kid
    Indie_Kid Posts: 23,077 Forumite
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    JackieO wrote: »
    I have been registered disabled for the past 9 years and get MR care and HR mobility, at 68 with severe arthritis and in remission from cancer, and also having just been given funding by the local PCT for treatment for my lymphodema in my right arm I would be happy to get a job in 2013 when I am 70 if it will help the Government out with their financial difficulties.So if you can think of a job that a one-useful-working-armed old biddy, with walking and mobility problems can do I would be happy to apply :):):) looks like I'm for the knackers yard :)

    (serious suggestion)
    Is there anyway you could get a job within IT and use speech-to-text software?
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  • sarah1972
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    I have reported this spammer before - it just keeps coming bac,k under a new user name !!!
  • rolling_stone_2
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    Sorry to be a party pooper but I think that everyone, no matter how serious their disability, has good reason to be afraid of losing their DLA. It looks like the criteria that the government is going to use for their decision making process is going to be the current Work Capability assessment, and the company responsible for assessment will be ATOS Healthcare. Now there's a joke.
    The current level of incapacity benefit claimants, and this includes disabled people, being found unfit for work is around 9%. There is a mass cull underway and this will eventually include DLA.
    Please visit the many forums on this subject and the current level of dissatisfaction with both ATOS and their computer software system that is designed to fail as many people as possible. This is not about helping severely disabled people, it's about saving money.
  • Indie_Kid
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    rolling_stone wrote: »
    Sorry to be a party pooper but I think that everyone, no matter how serious their disability, has good reason to be afraid of losing their DLA. It looks like the criteria that the government is going to use for their decision making process is going to be the current Work Capability assessment, and the company responsible for assessment will be ATOS Healthcare. Now there's a joke.

    But sickness and disability benefits are completely different. You can meet the criteria for one and fail the other.

    Where did you get this information from? All I've heard is that everyone who is working age will be assessed for their DLA. No indication of what this test will involve or even who would do it. (ATOS, person's GP, etc)
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  • rolling_stone_2
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    The information is readily available and is discussed on many of the ATOS/ incapacity benefit/ work capability assessment forums. The current criteria for DLA will not be the same as that used for the assessments in 2013/14, it looks like the bar will be raised to a level which few people will be able to attain or qualify. I currently claim both IB and DLA so keep a foot in both camps and am currently waiting for my IB assessment with ATOS. You really need to read some of the horror stories of those people already reassessed to understand how this is carried out so that as many people as possible fail, even if it means ATOS lying about your capabilities. You will be exteremely lucky to see a Doctor no matter what your condition, it will more likely be a nurse or midwife who merely inputs data into a computer software program. The current criteria for terminally ill people is 6 months or less to live. People that just miss out on this criteria are being found fit for work. I'm not scaremongering, I'm just letting people know what is really happening as forewarned is forearmed.
  • Indie_Kid
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    You are scaremongering.
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  • rolling_stone_2
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    I'm sorry that you see it that way as that's not what I intended to do. PLEASE, read some of these forums and decide for yourself. The intention is to remove as much welfare assistance as possible.
  • Indie_Kid
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    It's proposals at the moment. It'll probably change next year.
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  • rolling_stone_2
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    I'm really sorry, for you and for me, but that's highly unlikely. Some of the Incapacity benefit claimants that are found fit for work are having their DLA suspended. ATOS healthcare have a long contract with the DWP and their assessment of DLA claimants is due to begin in 2013/14 after the IB reassessment process is complete. Hence the timescale.
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