MSE News: Half a million could lose disability benefits

ineed

Tobermory wrote: »

Sangio, or whoever you are, don't change the subject, I realise you are unlikely to report the crime, therefore you condone benefit theft. At least for the criminals you know personally.

If indeed the scenario exists. Most probably it is made up to support your claims of widespread benefit abuse as per your other threads.

I posted the telephone number so that other people, that do have a conscience, may want to use it.

I agree it's everyone's duty to report benefit abuse and we all should do it, but it can be difficult if it's a close friend or family member doing it as in the scenario Sangio presented. It's easy for me to say oh I agree 100% with you (which I do btw) everyone should report no matter who it is committing the crime, but when you are in that situation, well I guess lines can become blurred. It's got to be very hard to decide what to do.

sangio wrote: »

As I have said, it is none of my business!

Duty as a citizen!!! You have to be kidding me.

Until they sort out the poverty in families and with old people, the lack of care and treatment of old people, and the locking up of every scumbag that ruins our life with their senseless attitude towards the rest of society, then and only then will I consider what my duty is!!!

I'm confused as to what the treatment of the poor and elderly people and unsavoury characters with questionable morals in this country has to do with your moral choices on the topic of reporting people who are benefit cheats? How does the behaviour or treatment of others affect your choice in reporting someone you know of committing benefit Freud? Genuinely curious.

MissMoneypenny

POLO_BINT wrote: »

i think missmoneypenny must have missed this!

I didn't miss those photos of you in a wheelchair, as I have never seen them before on this site. I was talking about your holiday photos in India that you posted on the Competitions Time - I won board.

Why did you give the impression on this thread that you have been housebound for years and can't travel, when you posted photos of yourself and things you did on holiday in India? Photos like that 3 storey tall boot in a childrens playground and you had written under the image
"We went up this hehehehe......... spotted it in a park in Mumbai..... Wish I was a kid again!!!"

I was so happy you had won that competition and loved looking at all your photos of some of the things you got up to and how happy you looked posing in all those photos. Now, I have lost my faith in posters.

I notice you suddenly removed all those holiday photos from this site now even though they had been on here for over 2 years. I could upload them onto this thread, but you obviously have your reasons for removing them from the site.

ineed

sangio wrote: »

Simply because benefit fraud comes way down the list in my opinion - far behind the other problems which are more important.

Right I understand that and agree those problems are important issues, but why do those things affect you informing the authorities about someone committing fraud? Are you saying until the government takes steps to deal with these issues you feel you shouldn't report anyone? Because benefit fraud doesn't harm the government so much as it does genuinely ill claimants and tax payers who will foot the bill. Or as I said in a previous post, are you really just concerned about reporting a family member and the ramifications of that? I think I also would find it hard to report someone I was close to as I previously said, so I can understand if that's your reason.

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

I notice you suddenly removed all those holiday photos from this site now even though they had been on here for over 2 years. I could upload them onto this thread, but you obviously have your reasons for removing them from the site.

To be fair I can understand why Polo would remove her photos after what happened, she was really upset and received some very nasty messages.

Ruth_MSE_Gee

I have just had a call about my Invalidity assessment interview.

I failed and told I was being disallowed. Very upset I asked what I had to do to keep it...die!!

Yes, my problems are physical and mental...and I go to the mental health charity MIND 3 or more times a week. The manager from there had sent them a letter stating this and said she thought I 'enjoyed' going. I was told this was taken as ' It got you out of the house a bit' !! MIND keep me being able to get through my life, if I couldn't go I don't know what I would do, I get such support....it's a lifeline, not 'getting me out of the house'.

I will appeal but I am deflated and very upset at this moment. I think it's horrendously inappropriate and arrogant for them to say MIND 'got me out of the house'.

A scrounger I am not...I am 56 and worked until around 7 years ago...at present I feel very upset.

You go to this assessment and they know nothing about you...there is no previous form filled in and nothing from a Doctor...they just ask tick box questions. I don't think I must fit into a tick box world.

eclairedcat

hello.
can anyone offer me any advice i am disabled and have asked for home visits as i have chronic arthritis plus plus displaced hips i have appealed twice for a home visit as the place where i have to go for a medical is 30 miles away which would consist of 2 train rides and a 30 minute walk which is just not feasible i can hardly walk as it is, my doctor has examined me several times plus written me several letters to asos to say that i am not physically able to get there but it went to a review board and they have turned me down on the grounds that i am physically capable to get there it is just ridiculous i am practically housebound and on a good day i can limp most of the time i can not walk at all due to my hips popping out can anyone offer me advice as asos have said that due to me refusing to go they will inform the dwp of that which will mean stoppage of benefits, i hate being disabled and being free to just walk without pain is a luxury i no longer have

rogerblack

eclairedcat wrote: »

hello.
can anyone offer me any advice i am disabled and have asked for home visits as i have chronic arthritis plus plus displaced hips i have appealed twice for a home visit as the place where i have to go for a medical is 30 miles away which would consist of 2 train rides and a 30 minute walk which is just not feasible i can hardly walk as it is, my doctor has examined me several times plus written me several letters to asos to say that i am not physically able to get there but it went to a review board and they have turned me down on the grounds that i am physically capable to get there it is just ridiculous i am practically housebound and on a good day i can limp most of the time i can not walk at all due to my hips popping out can anyone offer me advice as asos have said that due to me refusing to go they will inform the dwp of that which will mean stoppage of benefits, i hate being disabled and being free to just walk without pain is a luxury i no longer have

Can you post this in a fresh thread, where it will be easier for others to find.
See the 'new thread' button on the page listing all the different topics.

sparklydog

I've just been following the news this morning, there going after blind people now theres a section about it in the mail online "Blind on benefits 'will suffer' under the coalition's new reforms to disability allowance" can this government sink any lower shocking.

lymphomaniac

I am sorry but I am fed up with hearing about free cars.
I have been registered disabled and get high right payment,which l choose to get a motability car with the money.
I have had Non-Hodgkins lymphoma and have battled against it on four seperate occassions.
I have worked since the day l left school incuding being self employed and run my own business.
I do not have a free car it came at costs not only financially but also physically.
I am now on my own after my wife left me as she could no longer live as my carer.
I have to use crutches and a wheel chair.
I can no longer walk my dogs,ride my motorbike,play golf,darts or do all the things we all take for granted.
I would gladly tell the goverment to stick the car up their xxxxxxxx and have a rusty old bike instead.
I have to pay £93.00 a week for carers 3 times a day,7days a week.l can only walk with aids or my car.
I would love to get out and have fun, like riding a motor trike or getting a sports car but my life would be hell thanks to all these judgemental people if I did so.
I did not realize how lonley and prejudged being disabled would be. Those of you who think living on benefits is a good skive need to thank God they don't have too swap places.
I am so fed up with all the crap being thrown at the disabled.
I am not living a life but surviving on what little l have.l am either doped up to the eye balls with pain killers and falling to sleep or I put up with reduced pain all day and night.
I get so depressed reading and hearing what a burdern l am on the tax payers and health service.Next time you hear such rubbish.Stop and think if you could exist like all us claimants

bigboybrother

lymphomaniac wrote: »

I am sorry but I am fed up with hearing about free cars.
I have been registered disabled and get high right payment,which l choose to get a motability car with the money.
I have had Non-Hodgkins lymphoma and have battled against it on four seperate occassions.
I have worked since the day l left school incuding being self employed and run my own business.
I do not have a free car it came at costs not only financially but also physically.
I am now on my own after my wife left me as she could no longer live as my carer.
I have to use crutches and a wheel chair.
I can no longer walk my dogs,ride my motorbike,play golf,darts or do all the things we all take for granted.
I would gladly tell the goverment to stick the car up their xxxxxxxx and have a rusty old bike instead.
I have to pay £93.00 a week for carers 3 times a day,7days a week.l can only walk with aids or my car.
I would love to get out and have fun, like riding a motor trike or getting a sports car but my life would be hell thanks to all these judgemental people if I did so.
I did not realize how lonley and prejudged being disabled would be. Those of you who think living on benefits is a good skive need to thank God they don't have too swap places.
I am so fed up with all the crap being thrown at the disabled.
I am not living a life but surviving on what little l have.l am either doped up to the eye balls with pain killers and falling to sleep or I put up with reduced pain all day and night.
I get so depressed reading and hearing what a burdern l am on the tax payers and health service.Next time you hear such rubbish.Stop and think if you could exist like all us claimants

It's not exactly free and it's not exactly paid for out of your own money.

The government award you £54 a week to help you get around. You take a car instead of the cash.

So in effect you never see that money, you get a car to drive instead - so who is paying for that car - you or the government?

I can see both sides of the argument depending on which point of view I am looking at it from.

FBaby

Lymphomaniac (had to smile at your choice of name!!), I genuinely don't think one person here, however anti-benefits they come across, would dare saying that such schemes as motability cars are not right for people like you. That is EXACTLY what the scheme was intended for, to help people like you.

My main issue with motability cars who don't really need a car, but have them for their family to use (but of course, they make sure to do a bit of shopping for the disabled person whilst they do their big weekly shopping so that they can justify it is not for their own use), or those who get it for one child, when they have 3 children or more and would have paid for a car any way even if they didn't have disabled children, but it suits them to use it as a family car rather than spend the DLA purely on the disabled child.

I really wish more people like you got more benefit from DLA whilst it is axed for those who clearly use it to upgrade the lifestyle of their family.