Doctor who worked for ATOS says benefit assessments 'unfair'

sparkycat2

Brassedoff wrote: »

I also believe that checks should be as vigorous as possible, full medical details disclosed, independent expert varification, a full and robust medical thst includes bloods etc.

I agree I think the system should be based on weight of medical evidence and expert medical opinion as to diagnosis and prognosis of the claimants medical conditon. I think it should be medical diagnosis prognosis centric.

Brassedoff wrote: »

You have to ask why in the instance of households where both are parents are professions earning over £45K, only 2.2% have children who are disabled and whose parents claim any sort of benefit. Yet where the parents are not professionals and live in poor areas, that figure explodes to 22% who claim their children are disabled and claim DLA, Credits and other benefits. Explain that why the Office for Disabiliy Issues has these figures?

Please provide a link to the figures.

My guess would be that a household with a disabled child is more likely to have one parent not working who cares for the child, this would result in lower household income.

I would also expect more single adult households to have disabled children as family breakup may have resulted from the stress or caring for the child.
Also a single parent caring for a disabled child would probably be less likely to find a partner willing to take on and support them and disabled child, than a single parent with a non-disabled child.

Poverty also causes ill health so you would expect ill health and disablity to be more common amongst the poor.

Richie-from-the-Boro

see here ................

sparkycat2

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

see here ................

That is not the Office for Disability Issues and I see no mention of 2.2% of professions earning over £45K vs 22% of parents who are not professionals and live in poor areas having children who are disabled.

All I see is
22 per cent of children in families with at least one disabled member are in poverty, a significantly higher proportion than the 16 per cent of children in families with no disabled member

Richie-from-the-Boro

sparkycat2 wrote: »

That is not the Office for Disability Issues and I see no mention of 2.2% of professions earning over £45K vs 22% of parents who are not professionals and live in poor areas having children who are disabled.

All I see is
22 per cent of children in families with at least one disabled member are in poverty, a significantly higher proportion than the 16 per cent of children in families with no disabled member

It is the Office for Disability Issues ..............

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sparkycat2, I gave you the URL for the OfD, I did not look up, nor do I intend looking up what you want, or what Brassed claimed. I merely gave you the tools to look~for~yourself by linking the URL for you M8. Best of luck.

Richie-from-the-Boro

Fraud

- let's see what figures Chris Grayling gave in Oct '11 - 8,598 - minuscule compared to lawful claimants
- if only 0.7% of claims are in actual fact fraudulent, then 99.3% are not fraudulent

Underpaid

- £1.4 bi££ion pounds worth of benefits claims which are underpaid as a direct result of error within the benefits system
- and the ill and disabled working class are called cheats and vilified by those with wealth, estates, and ballrooms

IDS & Welfare Reforms

- his illusionary figures are now so wild and frequently wrong Andrew Dilnot said his claims were unsupported by the OSD
- so much so that his inspectors are to be sent into DWP because Duncan Smith is a habitual manipulator - Nick Cohen

rogerblack

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Duncan Smith is a habitual manipulator

And he fudges statistics too.