Panorama Britain on the Fiddle

tottybum

cit_k wrote: »

You get them in the media, because they are newsworthy.

They are newsworth because they are RARE.

They are rare, because only a few hundred such cases per sickness benefit are proven each year.

There is not enough cases to even run a story each day, thats how rare these type of cases are.

RARE!!!! Where in Britain are you living?

Cash in hand jobs AND JSA go hand in hand round here. At a good guess I would
d say that 60% of all JSA claimants in the age group 21 - 45 have some sort of undeclared income.

Then there are those that are 'far too sick and disabled' to do any form of work and still manage to earn a few £££'s everyweek - cash in hand.

And as for DLA claimants, again at a guess, knowing quite a lot that claim it, more than 50% are no way near as bad as they are said to be. One I know owns and runs a jet ski hire business in the summer months. For someone who has a damaged back etc, he can sure handle one of those machines in the English Channel!!

Not forgetting the friend who is highly placed in the GB League of off road 4 x4 competitions. He drives one of those powerful contraptions every week up and down the country yet claims that both legs are immobile, uses two crutches to get about and has a severe spinal injury. Yet he can be seen getting out of his 4x4 trying to winch up another 4x4 out of a ravine.

tottybum

emmell wrote: »

Private car parks and hospital car parks sometimes have parking attendants so if one of these asked your wife to show YOUR BB, would she refuse and argue that she has a right to park in a disabled bay with someone elses BB.
If your wife is disabled what hassle is there in filling a form out and applying for BB, I didn't find it any hassle, quite easy actually, and no assessment. But then again, they had copies of my x ray report that showed the degeneration of my knees through arthritis.
What I don't understand is, if the BB is not for parking in car parks why does your wife use it, there is a lot more non-disabled spaces than there is disabled spaces and the reason disabled spaces are larger is because it's very difficult to get a wheelchair down the side of the car to get the disabled person out in a 'normal' parking space.
This argument could go on forever, you obviously know you are abusing the BB system and nothing anybody on here says is going to stop you, so maybe a £1000 fine and confiscation of the badge would help you to understand

I'm not going to continue with this any longer.

The Badge CANNOT be taken away even if a parking attendant in a hospital car park knows that she isn't the badge holder He can ask her to move, which she would.

Same goes for ANY private car park.

The blue badge can only be siezed if it is used wrongly on a PUBLIC HIGHWAY or in a COUNCIL RUN CAR PARK!

tottybum

davsidipp wrote: »

now comes out the real reason the bitterness you hold with others claiming dla you didnt get it yourself.

I'm not bitter, whatever gave you that idea.

I'm annoyed at the way this country is going to the dogs.
Everybody trying to claim as much as they can in benefits.

If I wanted to, I could have appealed against the decision just like everyone on here does if things don't go their way.

Finacially I don't need to claim any benefit.

But should I be joining the masses that see life as one long benefit claiming exercise?

What has happened to the world of pride, duty, affection, understanding. consideration and tolerance?

System

tottybum wrote: »

I'm not bitter, whatever gave you that idea.

I'm annoyed at the way this country is going to the dogs.
Everybody trying to claim as much as they can in benefits.

If I wanted to, I could have appealed against the decision just like everyone on here does if things don't go their way.

Finacially I don't need to claim any benefit.

But should I be joining the masses that see life as one long benefit claiming exercise?

What has happened to the world of pride, duty, affection, understanding. consideration and tolerance?

If you didn't need to claim it, why bother applying in the first place....

OneYorkshireLass

tottybum wrote: »

One I know owns and runs a jet ski hire business in the summer months. For someone who has a damaged back etc, he can sure handle one of those machines in the English Channel!!

Not forgetting the friend who is highly placed in the GB League of off road 4 x4 competitions. He drives one of those powerful contraptions every week up and down the country yet claims that both legs are immobile, uses two crutches to get about and has a severe spinal injury. Yet he can be seen getting out of his 4x4 trying to winch up another 4x4 out of a ravine.

And have you reported these people?

proactive

tottybum wrote: »

What has happened to the world of pride, duty, affection, understanding, consideration and tolerance?

it's pretty much dead.

davsidipp

tottybum wrote: »

I'm not bitter, whatever gave you that idea.

I'm annoyed at the way this country is going to the dogs.
Everybody trying to claim as much as they can in benefits.

If I wanted to, I could have appealed against the decision just like everyone on here does if things don't go their way.

Finacially I don't need to claim any benefit.

But should I be joining the masses that see life as one long benefit claiming exercise?

What has happened to the world of pride, duty, affection, understanding. consideration and tolerance?

so why have you posted on the benefit forum asking advice about claiming dla then is it because you did not get your own way.

emmell

tottybum posted tonight about getting DLA backdated to before they were 65!!!
ML.

tottybum

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

If you didn't need to claim it, why bother applying in the first place....

As I have said already, it was done at the suggestion of my GP only, hence why I never bothered to follow it through. I told my GP, quite rightly that I had failed. He has since asked me again about it, so I am following up on it.

tottybum

OneYorkshireLass wrote: »

And have you reported these people?

No, it's not my responsibility. It's for their conscience not mine.