Panorama disability scam

shegar

Just seen in my local paper tonights panorama BBC 1 @ 8.30 , is about the governments expensive welfare reforms that aim to get disabled people into work, and asks who is really gaining from them.........

BigAunty

Only half of all people with a disability are in work. Panorama investigates if one of the government's most ambitious welfare reforms, costing billions of pounds, can solve the problem of disability unemployment. Reporter Sam Poling reveals the private companies who are getting rich from the new reforms despite only being able to get a small fraction of disabled people back to work, and speaks to the charities who feel the most vulnerable in our society are being failed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qgk9h

Apparently, the UK is the sick man of Europe with a much higher level of sickness/disability benefits than many other countries - anyone know why this is? The city I currently live in has sickness/disability rates high above the UK average and academics still don't understand why it is so.

GlasweJen

This should be interesting.

Weary_soul

The first Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) report shows that about 79,000 ESA claimants passed through the Work Programme between its launch in June 2011 and July this year, giving a success rate of just over one per cent.

To be counted in the figures, a disabled benefits claimant needed to stay in a job for only three months, compared with six months for non-disabled job-seekers.

The success rate is slightly higher for former incapacity benefit claimants who had been assessed and found “fit for work”, with just over two per cent of them finding work for at least three months.

The overall figures – which include non-disabled job-seekers – show about 3.5 per cent of those on the scheme found some work.

http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/2170-dwp-reports-suggest-work-programme-has-failed-disabled-people

So I'm guessing far from being half then.

miduck

Anyone know why this was moved from last week?

I'm always a bit dubious of these reports. Past efforts have contained inaccuracies that make it very easy for those in power to discredit them. Hopefully this will not be the case tonight.

Dunroamin

BigAunty wrote: »

Apparently, the UK is the sick man of Europe with a much higher level of sickness/disability benefits than many other countries - anyone know why this is? The city I currently live in has sickness/disability rates high above the UK average and academics still don't understand why it is so.

Like climbing Everest - because it's there!

Teahfc

BigAunty wrote: »

Apparently, the UK is the sick man of Europe with a much higher level of sickness/disability benefits than many other countries

With the most claims at Knowsley in Liverpool (the safest Labour seat in the country).

miduck

BigAunty wrote: »

Apparently, the UK is the sick man of Europe with a much higher level of sickness/disability benefits than many other countries - anyone know why this is? The city I currently live in has sickness/disability rates high above the UK average and academics still don't understand why it is so.

I have a theory on this. Most other European countries have much stronger communities than we do - so when things are tough, financially or emotionally, they support each other. These countries have a tiny amount of mental health issues compared to us. It shows through in the European communities that have settled in the UK - they don't access mental health services to anywhere near the extent that Brits do.

LunaLady

The interviewer is extremely brave, the photographer (Mark) was really scary!

miduck

LunaLady wrote: »

The interviewer is extremely brave, the photographer (Mark) was really scary!

Did you notice the camera man step back?

leveller2911

LunaLady wrote: »

The interviewer is extremely brave, the photographer (Mark) was really scary!

Indeed, he glared at her.........Still have no idea if he was genuine or just swinging the lead.........Personally I think most people suffer from anxiety and depression,I know I do but its how you deal with it.