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  • andy1976
    andy1976 Posts: 39 Forumite
    Andy - your original post shows that the test is merely a means to get sick people off legally entitled benefits - but most here know that already - they many will never admit it ;)


    Makes you feel that way :(
  • dmg24
    dmg24 Posts: 33,920 Forumite
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    Andy - your original post shows that the test is merely a means to get sick people off legally entitled benefits - but most here know that already - they many will never admit it ;)

    He's off again ... it's a conspiracy! :p
    Gone ... or have I?
  • kaya
    kaya Posts: 2,465 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Well i have just read your post and cant figure out what is supposed to be wrong with you(sorry), seems like you have a vallium problem and not a medical one, if i spent all day sitting at home swallowing benzo's im sure i would feel similarly, did you provide any medical reports? consulants letters? hospital referrals?, i can relate to the feelings you are describing as i have a sha**ed spine and im physicly unable to do the things you imply your mental health stops you from doing, (did you know anxiety is a side effect of benzo's?), your first question regarding your ability to answer the phone and take messages you answered by saying "NO, I can answer the phone" which in itself is a contradiction , i realy hope that you get whatever benefits you are entiled to but given no medical proof(consultants reports) and the contents of your letter i would be hard pressed to give you anything if it were my job to do so, sounds harsh i know but it seems like you need a stick of dynamite up your a**e rather than another prescription of vallium with tea and sympathy, i guess by your name your only in your early thirties as well?
    P.S. just re-read it and seems like you have an alcohol problem also if you carry a can of lager in your bag to a medical!!!, you need two vallium to write a letter and one every morning to go to sleep, i would have referred you to the drug and alcohol unit personally rather than give you taxpayers money to live off of, here's a little reading material for you http://www.drugs.com/valium.html
  • Garry_Anderson
    Garry_Anderson Posts: 11,896 Forumite
    dmg24 wrote: »
    He's off again ... it's a conspiracy! :p

    As I stated before - it is not a conspiracy - just a mindset that is more about saving money and cutting claimants - sorry we are called customers now - or is it clients :)

    This is proven by the training given to the 'doctors' taking rigged tests that are used to disqualify sick and disabled people from benefit - as identified by Mr PL Howel QC (Social Security Commissioners File: CIB 5361/97).

    e.g. "BTW: I also stated there is No conspiracy - just ignorance and stupidity ;) "

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=20110359&highlight=conspiracy#post20110359
  • nogginthenog
    nogginthenog Posts: 2,649 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    kaya wrote: »
    Well i have just read your post and cant figure out what is supposed to be wrong with you(sorry), seems like you have a vallium problem and not a medical one, if i spent all day sitting at home swallowing benzo's im sure i would feel similarly, did you provide any medical reports? consulants letters? hospital referrals?, i can relate to the feelings you are describing as i have a sha**ed spine and im physicly unable to do the things you imply your mental health stops you from doing, (did you know anxiety is a side effect of benzo's?), your first question regarding your ability to answer the phone and take messages you answered by saying "NO, I can answer the phone" which in itself is a contradiction , i realy hope that you get whatever benefits you are entiled to but given no medical proof(consultants reports) and the contents of your letter i would be hard pressed to give you anything if it were my job to do so, sounds harsh i know but it seems like you need a stick of dynamite up your a**e rather than another prescription of vallium with tea and sympathy, i guess by your name your only in your early thirties as well?
    P.S. just re-read it and seems like you have an alcohol problem also if you carry a can of lager in your bag to a medical!!!, you need two vallium to write a letter and one every morning to go to sleep, i would have referred you to the drug and alcohol unit personally rather than give you taxpayers money to live off of, here's a little reading material for you http://www.drugs.com/valium.html

    But that is why the odds of this game is weighed heavily in favour of the (new)system esp pertaining to mental health.
    Doctors and consultants generaly do not write write letters and give notes saying a individual is unfit for work.
    Where as atos medics can simply fail you on a perception or on personality
    grounds...or even if you are a person likely to appeal.
    Your own doctors will say what the patient complains of or what he or she perscribes in the way of meds to the patient. and little else. so the onus is on the claiment to prove they are ill.
    Child of a Fighting Race.
  • Oldernotwiser
    Oldernotwiser Posts: 37,425 Forumite
    Andy - your original post shows that the test is merely a means to get sick people off legally entitled benefits - but most here know that already - they many will never admit it ;)

    If that were true, why are there so many more people on sickness related benefits than ever before?
  • nogginthenog
    nogginthenog Posts: 2,649 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    If that were true, why are there so many more people on sickness related benefits than ever before?
    deregulation of the workplace.
    Running staffing levels down to the bare bones.
    Child of a Fighting Race.
  • Oldernotwiser
    Oldernotwiser Posts: 37,425 Forumite
    deregulation of the workplace.
    Running staffing levels down to the bare bones.

    That explains unemployment figures but not numbers claiming ill health benefits.
  • NASA_2
    NASA_2 Posts: 5,571 Forumite
    Arent you only 'legally' entitled to the benefit if you pass the test set by the government?

    Seems to me that if you dont pass the test then you are not legally entitled. The less people on benefits the better.
  • andy1976
    andy1976 Posts: 39 Forumite
    ESA wrote: »
    Arent you only 'legally' entitled to the benefit if you pass the test set by the government?

    Seems to me that if you dont pass the test then you are not legally entitled. The less people on benefits the better.


    All well and good if the test is fair ;)

    Congrats on your crap input in bold :)
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