Post heart attack and gigs

Tabieth

If you are well enough to attend the match / the gigs (check with your GP / cardiac rehab nurse) then there’s no issue. Being off sick from work does not mean a person can’t leave their bed / their home. It doesn’t matter if someone spots you, you’ve had an MI and you have a fit note. 

I hope your recovery goes well and you enjoy the events 

Grey_Critic

Things have changed - Once upon a time if you were signed off sick then you were legally supposed to be at home by 9.30pm and they did actually send someone to check. 

Perhaps it is time they started to do so again the way the benefit bill is under scrutiny. 

elsien

On that basis, I’m quite glad things have changed. It’s bad enough being unwell about people treating you like a child and checking up on your every move.

Tabieth

Grey_Critic said:

Things have changed - Once upon a time if you were signed off sick then you were legally supposed to be at home by 9.30pm and they did actually send someone to check. 

Perhaps it is time they started to do so again the way the benefit bill is under scrutiny. 

Why? It would be a backward move. 

People who are genuinely too unwell to work are not necessary (and unlikely to be) housebound. Gentle exercise and activity post MI is healthy and beneficial. Same with other medical conditions. (For example, it used to be said advised stay in bed if one had acute back pain. We now know that’s the worst thing to do, movement and gentle exercise are vitally important. 

Grumpy_chap

Grey_Critic said:

Once upon a time if you were signed off sick then you were legally supposed to be at home by 9.30pm and they did actually send someone to check. 

When was that and who popped round to check, please?

Mands

Grumpy_chap said:

Grey_Critic said:

Once upon a time if you were signed off sick then you were legally supposed to be at home by 9.30pm and they did actually send someone to check. 

When was that and who popped round to check, please?

And which law was this, exactly? 

sheramber

Mands said:

Grumpy_chap said:

Grey_Critic said:

Once upon a time if you were signed off sick then you were legally supposed to be at home by 9.30pm and they did actually send someone to check. 

When was that and who popped round to check, please?

And which law was this, exactly? 

I can remember that from my childhood in the 50’s.

Payments came from the National Assistance Board which  took over from the Poor Law. NAB was abolished in 1966z
. 

I also talk about the ‘man from the bro’ who came round.

My uncle worked for the National Assistance Board and his job was visiting claimants during the day. 

EnPointe

Grey_Critic said:

Things have changed - Once upon a time if you were signed off sick then you were legally supposed to be at home by 9.30pm and they did actually send someone to check. 

Perhaps it is time they started to do so again the way the benefit bill is under scrutiny. 

Citation required   - Act  ( or SI ) and Section please  ideally with a link to the relevant government legislation site  -  legislation.,gov.uk  can be provoked into providing  original text  rather than tue current applicable sections of  elderly legislation 

also  what exactly about being  unfit for work means you ought to be home by  2130 ?

lincroft1710

Grey_Critic said:

Things have changed - Once upon a time if you were signed off sick then you were legally supposed to be at home by 9.30pm and they did actually send someone to check. 

Perhaps it is time they started to do so again the way the benefit bill is under scrutiny. 

In the early 1970s I was also told that this used to happen, but even by then it appeared to have ceased many years previously

sheramber

EnPointe said:

Grey_Critic said:

Things have changed - Once upon a time if you were signed off sick then you were legally supposed to be at home by 9.30pm and they did actually send someone to check. 

Perhaps it is time they started to do so again the way the benefit bill is under scrutiny. 

Citation required   - Act  ( or SI ) and Section please  ideally with a link to the relevant government legislation site  -  legislation.,gov.uk  can be provoked into providing  original text  rather than tue current applicable sections of  elderly legislation 

also  what exactly about being  unfit for work means you ought to be home by  2130 ?

If you are so interested do your own research.

 I am happy to rely on what was common knowledge when I was a child in the 50s.

 The Pooer  Law followed by the National Assistance Board are both abolished now and times  have moved on.