Thousands will lose benefits as harsher medical approved

seven-day-weekend

Absolutely Invasion. I know when my husband was at his worst, this type of thing would have really caused him a lot of distress.

I agree that these proposals should be brought to peoples' attention, but really should not be written in such tabloid newspaper terms.

seven-day-weekend

I had some free online tips about IB medicals from the website under discussion, they were useful, but tbh I did not like the tone, which automatically assumed that the DWP set out to screw you over and turn you into a liar. It also said things like 'your medical will start as soon as you enter the medical centre - for example, how you sit in a chair' and warning people to be vigilant.

Now why do they do this? Surely if you can sit in a chair you can sit in a chair and why should they not see you sitting in a chair? If you can't sit in one, then they won't see you sitting in one, will they?

Unless of course the point of this is to encourage people to say they are worse than they actually are...........

Trialia

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Now why do they do this? Surely if you can sit in a chair you can sit in a chair and why should they not see you sitting in a chair? If you can't sit in one, then they won't see you sitting in one, will they?

Unless of course the point of this is to encourage people to say they are worse than they actually are...........

Actually, that is what my last IB medical was like. I wasn't examined physically at all, but I couldn't sit without hip pain that day, and the doctor noticed that, for a change.

Prinzessilein

Part of my condition means that I live in absolute terror of being forced back to work before I am ready. (My doctor and specialist accept I can't even look for work at the moment).
I like to keep up-to-date on government policy regarding benefits. Scaremongering e-mails such as the one shown, just exacerbate my problem and quite simply terrify me.
Thankfully this site gives impartial advice - and will often give links to other sites to back-up the information given.

Invasion

Prinzessilein wrote: »

Part of my condition means that I live in absolute terror of being forced back to work before I am ready. (My doctor and specialist accept I can't even look for work at the moment).
I like to keep up-to-date on government policy regarding benefits. Scaremongering e-mails such as the one shown, just exacerbate my problem and quite simply terrify me.
Thankfully this site gives impartial advice - and will often give links to other sites to back-up the information given.

However it gives you this information, but doesn't give you a simple step- such as a petition- to stop it from happening... I think there were better, less *throw-it-in-your-face-that-you're-going-to-be-forced-back-to work* ways of writing this information and B&W's concerns.

kaya

the only diference between being disabled in england in 2010 and germany in 1941 were the gas chambers, we are still being persecuted

Kronkston_2

I am very suspicious about the site, it does not seem to be a charity rather a profit making organisation.

They seem to be charging for everything I suspect their motive is money as much as anything else, I mean why are they not a charity?

Any information they have should be freely available as all the business done in government is usually freely available as far as I know.

Kronkston_2

Also they are a private company so you can't see the accounts, but either way I am uneasy about the morality of their organisation charging people form what is essentially public domain information.
Their prime interest seems to me to be to generate revenue, the more people they scare the mote who sign up, that's troubling me regarding how they operate.

Kronkston_2

A I understand it he test is being made easier, but I have to say the so called charities who helped bring in the first one have a great deal to answer for, the allowed the government to bring in disgusting rules which caused massive distress to millions and you have to wonder whose side they are on?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2010/mar/23/employment-support-allowance-incapacity-benefit

Kronkston_2

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I had some free online tips about IB medicals from the website under discussion, they were useful, but tbh I did not like the tone, which automatically assumed that the DWP set out to screw you over and turn you into a liar. It also said things like 'your medical will start as soon as you enter the medical centre - for example, how you sit in a chair' and warning people to be vigilant.

Now why do they do this? Surely if you can sit in a chair you can sit in a chair and why should they not see you sitting in a chair? If you can't sit in one, then they won't see you sitting in one, will they?

Unless of course the point of this is to encourage people to say they are worse than they actually are...........

I think the system they use is very unfair for example this woman as found unfit to work but not unfit enough to claim benefits.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/169556/Job-hunter-told-she-s-too-weak-to-work-but-too-healthy-to-claim-benefits