campaign against welfare cuts and poverty

[audiotech]

A new low.

 

[Greebo]

A new low.

FFS I know parents who claim DLA for one or more disabled children, and not one penny of that money is spent on anyone else. The thing is that if you can't afford a suitable car or wheelchair except through motability, you sign over the entire mobility component for 3 years, and if you get more than a certain level of care from social services, that's the care component gone too.

Wherever the DLA goes it certainly doesn't often go on cocaine, champagne or caviar.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

A new low.

I have said this before, but

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[treelover]

They're so quick to put in the suspend codes yet straangely slow when it comes to start codes eh.

one of the big consultancies told the DWp that the way to bring down the welfare budget is to at all cost limit and delay pay outs as all these 'micro' delays save money, etc...

 

[weepiper]

fucking hell. That is disgusting

 

[Frankie Jack]

fucking hell. That is disgusting

Not surprising though weeps when we see the speed they whip benefit away compared to the time taken to reinstate.

 

[weepiper]

Not surprising at all when you consider the government's general opinion of 'the poor' and their ability to parent. Frightening times.

 

[ViolentPanda]

the beauty of internet comments innit

I (doubtlessly mistakenly) often assume that some of these people are timid little church-mice in real life, but fearless right-wing cuntbags online.

 

[ViolentPanda]

A new low.

Another method by which to kill off a few more claims and/or claimants.

 

[BigTom]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-may-lose-benefits-under-reforms-8002288.html

Half a million disabled people may lose benefits under DLA -> PIP reforms

 

[ViolentPanda]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-may-lose-benefits-under-reforms-8002288.html

Half a million disabled people may lose benefits under DLA -> PIP reforms

Yep, this was the original intention, and people shouldn't just be worried about losing all of their DLA, they should also be worried that a concentrated effort will be made to downgrade the conditions of many DLA recipients, in order to minimise PIP payouts.

I found this particularly rancid:
"The Government yesterday described the DLA – worth up to £131.50 a week – as an outdated benefit and said the new assessment would 'ensure that, unlike in DLA, disabled people will be able to have a detailed discussion with a health professional about how their impairment affects their everyday lives'."

On what planet did people on DLA not have "a detailed discussion with a healthcare professional about how their impairment affects their everyday lives"? The doctors I saw for DLA EMAs had the data from my application/renewal form and a detailed discussion with me in order to establish how my impairments affected my day-to-day functioning, as did most claimants.
I suspect that what this actually partly means is "no renewals based on what's been established about your condition on previous applications. We'll make sure one of our 'healthcare professionals' reassesses you using our claimant-excluding software, at every single renewal" .

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

I (doubtlessly mistakenly) often assume that some of these people are timid little church-mice in real life, but fearless right-wing cuntbags online.

quite likely, I've just had a long session on the yahoo news comments, not that it will make any difference but it helps vent anger gets my blood boiling and probably gets me closer to a stroke too

 

[ViolentPanda]

quite likely, I've just had a long session on the yahoo news comments, not that it will make any difference but it helps vent anger gets my blood boiling and probably gets me closer to a stroke too

I don't have to worry about that too much, as I'm medicated for hypertension, and it takes a planet-sized amount of cuntery to make my bp rise by more than about 5%.

 

[audiotech]

Beta-blockers help too VP.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Beta-blockers help too VP.

I take 1 x Atenolol (beta-blocker) 100mg daily, 1 x Lisinopril (ACE inhibitor) 10mg twice daily, 1 x bendrofluomethazide (diuretic) 2.5mg daily and 1 x Amlodipine (calcium channel blocker) 5mg daily. Add to that the anti-inflammatories, analgesics, my diabetes medication and statin, and I sound like a percussionist playing his maracas when I walk!
I could get the same effects as I get from the above from taking one or two of the newer hypertension treatments, but the beta-blocker I'm on helps limit the prevalence and duration of my migraines, so I'm unwilling to stop taking it.

 

[audiotech]

For your migraine, I'll give you a bangin' cluster headache.

 

[audiotech]

This time "fury" as residents in Scotland become benefits 'guinea pigs',

 

[treelover]

" Estelle Haviland • 4 hours ago

Not so long ago, my aunty, who is profoundly deaf, totally blind (without any light perception), cannot speak and has a mild learning disability (childhood measles) was investigated for benefit fraud. Assessors left her in the middle of a busy car park to "see if she could make it back into the testing centre".
My mother saw this from the waiting room, and ran out rescue her.
She was so frightened, she was shaking.

I would say this borders on "torture""

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012...o-are-targeted-in-the-media-its-the-disabled/


I must have missed this comment when I read the blog, for gods sake how can this be tolerated in a decent society? Whay aren't 'abled bodied' etc on the left, the churches, the unions, civil society, etc, screaming out about this...

This is not acceptable

could someone send this to guardian contacts, etc...

 

[stuff_it]

" Estelle Haviland • 4 hours ago

Not so long ago, my aunty, who is profoundly deaf, totally blind (without any light perception), cannot speak and has a mild learning disability (childhood measles) was investigated for benefit fraud. Assessors left her in the middle of a busy car park to "see if she could make it back into the testing centre".
My mother saw this from the waiting room, and ran out rescue her.
She was so frightened, she was shaking.

I would say this borders on "torture""

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012...o-are-targeted-in-the-media-its-the-disabled/


I must have missed this comment when I read the blog, for gods sake how can this be tolerated in a decent society? Whay aren't 'abled bodied' etc on the left, the churches, the unions, civil society, etc, screaming out about this...

This is not acceptable

could someone send this to guardian contacts, etc...

Suffering fuck. How long will we tolerate this sort of shit for.

 

[treelover]

'c/o Paul Gray and Make SomeNoise for M.E.
Sonia Poulton, freelance journalist who has written articles criticising the welfare reforms that have affected sickness and disability benefit claimants and has written the most radical expose of the politics surrounding ME in the mainstream media, has received an email from an anonymous source at Whitehall. This is what she posted:

Sonia Poulton: 'E-mail just now from 'friendly insider in Whitehall': 'You are too outspoken and should be careful with your words. You make some people uncomfortable'.
Sadly, could not respond as e-mail just bounced back, but I wrote: 'Good. I'm not here to provide room service for elitists. By the way, I always make sure to let people know that if anything happens to me then it shouldn't automatically be assumed it's an accident.'

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. — with Sonia Poulton.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...c-fatigue.html



Sonia Poulton, the great campaigning Daily Mail (yes, thats right) journalist/commentator who has been fierce in her condemnation of the welfare reforms, appears to have had a 'warning', I'm not sure if it is dramatic as she thinks, but it does show the inner workings of the establishment and how they respond to a real threat, the Guardian, etc is clearly not seen as one as they have given excellent critical coverage as well...

btw, I now have my letter to Panorama when they screened the influential 'Britain on the Sick' in 2008 and the producers reply scanned, is there anywhere I can post it all up?

 

[treelover]

actually I wonder if this deserves its own thread, its pretty damning, especially after Levinson...

 

[Frankie Jack]

I saw this over the weekend but was too bollocksed to say much.Wonder if she can get it's origin from the email. I know she's not very pooter savvy, she says so herself.

 

[treelover]

Apparently Ed Milliband has replied to her open letter, more later...

 

[treelover]

'An evening of action against the media cheats

On Monday 13th August, Channel 4′s Dispatches will be broadcasting an episode called “Tricks of the Dole Cheats”. The programme will help further stigmatise people who claim social security. Yesterday it had already provided the Daily Mail with an opportunity for its favourite type of rant under the headline “Benefit cheats’ bonanza”.

This despite the fact half a million people were sanctioned last year, and the fact that 99.3% of benefits payments have nothing to do with fraud.
If you’re fed up with the way the media blame people claiming benefits for the UK’s economic woes, then tonight you can can do something about it.
Visit the Facebook event for more details on how to take action or see suggestions below.'


Boycott Workfare is urging online protests, good for them...

Sonia Poulton's on the case as well, if only we had this when the reforms were first proposed...​

 

[treelover]

Btw, I have to admit it, Faceache is replacing here as the prime medium to highlight issues..

 

[stuff_it]

Btw, I have to admit it, Faceache is replacing here as the prime medium to highlight issues..

It is very useful. Most of the same stuff does turn up on here, but a lot of it is put up in longer running threads so not as obvious unless you read them regularly.

 

[Frankie Jack]

6th International Forum on Disability Management (IFDM 2012)
Monday - Wednesday 10 - 12 September 2012
Venue: Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, LONDON, SW7 2AZ

Background:
In the late 1990s a group of people who were committed to the ideals of best practice in disability management met in Ottawa. From that meeting came the agreement to collaborate on an International Forum to be held every two years in major locations throughout the world, with a focus on research and practice in the field of disability management. Each meeting would attract senior political representatives, and senior executives from government, labour and industry, to speak on the achievements and challenges in that country's efforts to address these problems.

Aims and objectives:
The conference aims to gather representatives and stakeholders in disability management from all over the world, to assemble global perspectives on consensus-based best practices, cutting-edge research and successful disability management policies and programs. Disability management refers to the actions of the health and rehabilitation community to restore those disabled by injury or illness, to health and productivity.

Who should attend?
The forum will bring together a diverse international audience, including: employers, unions, policymakers, government representatives, worker representatives, disability management professionals, academics, health care providers, advocates for employment of workers with disabilities, risk managers, insurance representatives, and the general public.

Once again the usual suspects who heavily influenced Govmnt policy and WRA are gathering again and I wonder how much more damage they can do worldwide to sick and disabled people.

All the usual suspects, UNUM, Carol Black, Disability Rights UK, Prof Sir Mansel Aylward *psychosocial bullshit* will be there.

 

[Frankie Jack]

Btw, I have to admit it, Faceache is replacing here as the prime medium to highlight issues..

As much as lots of info and groups etc are on Facebook, I do prefer to come here with info and actually get the chance to hear peoples views, experiences and actually have a discussion rather than a fleeting glimps on the facebook feed.

 

[BigTom]

I find here better for discussion, twitter best for news and facebook a bit shit really, useful for organising sometimes.

 

[stuff_it]

I find here better for discussion, twitter best for news and facebook a bit shit really, useful for organising sometimes.

Faceache is useful for contacting people who are less tech savvy and/or perhaps only access the internet from their phones. There's a lot of them out there.