Incapacity Assessment

Miroslav

£290? I'd love to know what they are on

I get £80.15 p/w

I'm not worried too much about the assessment, as I have medical people willing to back me up in an appeal.

Nothing is as black and white as it seems, and we can't make judgements about others, as we don't know them.

ianian99

Miroslav wrote:

£290? I'd love to know what they are on.

they're on the blag! they've got 3 kids and neither of them have EVER had jobs and both are in their late 30's. (although the hubby does cash in hand work like slabbing, plastering , etc and he's on sick with arthritus)

Joopin

These kind of views and posts drive me insane :mad:
I used to work as a welfare rights adviser (before I started my nurse training) and people would come up to me and ask me how I could work getting all these "blaggers" money.
I really feel that people who are so judgemental dont have a clue about illness and disability and how it effects peoples lives. They read something in a paper like a family living on a thousand pounds a week and believe it. Honestly.....
:rolleyes:
I couldnt live on the pennies you get on benefit and I think 98% of people would prefer to be able to work and earn a proper wage (and all the other beneefits that work gives, a structure to your day, social network, a status etc). Some poeple just cant manage this and that is why there is a suport system in place. One day you might need to acess that support and I hope when you do you wont have to put up with all the acusations of blagging that go on.
Just remember illness and disability can be more than physical.

Fleago

Right! I have sat on my hands long enough :mad: I am heartily sick to death of the fact that whenever the topic of people claiming illness/disability related benefits comes up there are so many ranting about people conning the system and citing people claiming huge amounts of money and who don't want to work. Yes, there are fraudsters, but there are many more on these benefits who are either a) too unwell to contemplate work either now or in the future b) who want to try to return to some sort of work, but cannot access effective support mechanisms to help them do so and c) who, surprise, surprise all you prophets of doom, actually have jobs but are on long term sick leave. People in these three categories form the vast majority of the claimants.

For those of you who say people can just get jobs when they decide they are going to work, think again, it is NOT easy and the support they get will vary widely across the country. Please people, have a heart and look deeper into the issues than just the popularist "let's get the skivvers" sort of viewpoint.

Sorry, but I just had to say it

Fleago

Fleago

Hear hear Joopin, we must have been furiously typing at the same time

Fleago

ianian99

Joopin wrote:

These kind of views and posts drive me insane :mad:
I used to work as a welfare rights adviser (before I started my nurse training) and people would come up to me and ask me how I could work getting all these "blaggers" money.
I really feel that people who are so judgemental dont have a clue about illness and disability and how it effects peoples lives. They read something in a paper like a family living on a thousand pounds a week and believe it. Honestly.....
:rolleyes:
I couldnt live on the pennies you get on benefit and I think 98% of people would prefer to be able to work and earn a proper wage (and all the other beneefits that work gives, a structure to your day, social network, a status etc). Some poeple just cant manage this and that is why there is a suport system in place. One day you might need to acess that support and I hope when you do you wont have to put up with all the acusations of blagging that go on.
Just remember illness and disability can be more than physical.

Well I know for a FACT that the couple I am speaking about are blagging as they are my otherhalfs brother and missus and as I said he or his missus have NEVER done a legit days work in there lives, he is supposed to not be able to walk let alone work work and has a stair lift and a bath lift yet he's out working nearly every day doing slabbing, plastering and brick laying. And as i said before I could name a dozen others that are blatently and openly blagging it as I also know them all personally, various faked illness's but the favourite is depression and panic attacks and there favourite BLAG when they are interviewed is to rare up acting all agressive in the waiting room accusing the staff of talking about them and laughing at them and saying that they are picking on them etc. You will also see in this thread advice like "stay up the night before the interview and dont eat" is not not blagging?
I am talking from first hand experience and have not just read something in the paper.
It really winds me up. My freinds mother has ms and has been told that she is on a 5 year waiting list for a stair lift whilst the blagger got his in a matter of months and doesn't need it!

Fleago

If you know for a fact they are fraudulently claiming Ianian, then report them!

Fleago

ianian99

i'm all for genuinely ill folks to get all the benefits they deserve and what they do get probably isn't enough. The majority of people I know that are on the sick are blagger, plain and simple and its those blaggers that are causing all the greif for the genuinely sick people. They won't have sleepless nights over the possibilty of them losing their benefits because they are blaggers and they know how to blag the system and they know they won't loose there benefits. Whereas the easy targets for the benefits agency are the decent law abiding genuine claimants that will just agree with what they say and get sent of to some crap scheme that the government will plough millions into whilst the blagger is driving to work in there mobility car.
The inner cities are RIFE with people blagging the sick, that is a FACT not just something I read in the paper - I know these people and I tell them to there faces that they are scumbags but they just think i'm jealous.

ianian99

All the ba do round here is pull them in for an interview and ask them if they are working , they say no and lay low for a bit then do it again. All this crap on the tv about them watching you etc is bull, they aint got the money to investigate it, they get THOUSANDS of calls a day and how many times do you see anyone being sent to prison for benefit fraud? NEVER. Multi thousand pound fraud and 9 times out of ten it doesn't even go to court, they just agree to pay it back and it gets deducted from there BENEFITS

Cumbrian_Male

ianian99 wrote:

Well I know for a FACT that the couple I am speaking about are blagging as they are my otherhalfs brother and missus and as I said he or his missus have NEVER done a legit days work in there lives, he is supposed to not be able to walk let alone work work and has a stair lift and a bath lift yet he's out working nearly every day doing slabbing, plastering and brick laying. And as i said before I could name a dozen others that are blatently and openly blagging it as I also know them all personally, various faked illness's but the favourite is depression and panic attacks and there favourite BLAG when they are interviewed is to rare up acting all agressive in the waiting room accusing the staff of talking about them and laughing at them and saying that they are picking on them etc. You will also see in this thread advice like "stay up the night before the interview and dont eat" is not not blagging?
I am talking from first hand experience and have not just read something in the paper.
It really winds me up. My freinds mother has ms and has been told that she is on a 5 year waiting list for a stair lift whilst the blagger got his in a matter of months and doesn't need it!

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