Blow for sickness benefit claimants

cattie

ILW wrote: »

I believe that currently, being alcoholic, drug addicted or grossly obese gets you a higher rate of benefits.

Not true, otherwise we'd all be getting fat & drinking ourselves silly. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

The biggest unfairness was with incapacity benefit where a claimant aged under 25yrs old when they became sick/disabled, received quite a lot more money than than other older claimants. :mad: People aged over 45 when they first became sick or disabled received the least amount of incapacity of all, which was grossly unfair, especially if you had been working for most of your adult life & had been paying tax & national insurance for all of that time. :mad:

carolt

Yes, it is true.

There are tens of thousands of benefit claimants if not hundreds of thousands claiming for obesity, alcoholism or drug problems.

Saw figures recently - if anyone can helpfully post these, that would be great.

ILW

carolt wrote: »

Yes, it is true.

There are tens of thousands of benefit claimants if not hundreds of thousands claiming for obesity,
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A disability is when a person cannot walk, not when they cannot walk past McDonalds.

ruggedtoast

If someone is genuinely sick then this hopefully wont affect them too badly. The measures arent aimed at stopping sickness benefits, theyre aimed at getting people who can work into work.

In almost all cases people are better off out of the house doing something than mouldering on the sofa with Tricia and a horizon that doesn't spread beyond the next benefit check.

If you're really not well enough to work then the worst that will happen (assuming you dont have a registered disability) is that your employer will fire you for ill health and you'll just go back on statutory sick.

cattie

carolt wrote: »

Yes, it is true.

There are tens of thousands of benefit claimants if not hundreds of thousands claiming for obesity, alcoholism or drug problems.

Saw figures recently - if anyone can helpfully post these, that would be great.

It might be true that they are claiming benefits for these things, but not true that obesity, alchohol or drug addiction problems brings you a higher benefit payout than other sick or disabled people.

Harry_Powell

mr.broderick wrote: »

I'd rather be in negative equity geoff than have £750k in the bank and be spending my time on here.

Yeah right! :rotfl:

In the same vein, I'd rather be sweeping streets than head of Microsoft. I'd rather be living rough than living in a palace, and other completely nonsense statements

ILW

cattie wrote: »

It might be true that they are claiming benefits for these things, but not true that obesity, alchohol or drug addiction problems brings you a higher benefit payout than other sick or disabled people.

These are not sicknesses or disabilties, but lifestyle choices. (See post #44)

ruggedtoast

It doesnt make sense giving more money to fat people anyway. They just spend it on buns. Give them less money and they get thinner by default.

slipthru

ruggedtoast wrote: »

It doesnt make sense giving more money to fat people anyway. They just spend it on buns. Give them less money and they get thinner by default.

Well to be fair, they could turn to crime to fund there habit.

carolt

slipthru wrote: »

Well to be fair, they could turn to crime to fund there habit.

Only if they can be arsed to get themselves off the sofa and stop eating pies long enough.