Incapacity tests reject 37% of claimants

Oberon · 03-15-12, 01:12 PM

It's not what you have, me old fruit, it's where you have it. The big smoke seems to have an easy eye on claimants but around here if you are still able to put one foot in front of the other then there's nothing wrong with you, even if doing so causes you a lot of pain and you can barely walk twenty-five meters before your hip gives way.

03-16-12, 03:06 AM

Wasn't there a problem in that the agency doing the testing had to fail a certain number of people.
Didn't they get some bad press for declaring terminally ill people fit for work and then having them die before they had recieved the letter telling them they were fit.
Come to think of it as something over 40% are overturned is this another A4e case where one of call me daves buddies is scamming the tax payer and commiting fraud in the name of "saving money" for the government.

Diopos · 03-16-12, 09:33 AM

Eventually all the population will be declared healthy, able and happy by presidential decree and then we can still enjoy a welfare state with zero cost!

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Harald_Lange · 03-16-12, 11:14 AM

Yea, this is a sensitive subject with me. My brother in law has Chrones disease and has had most of his digestive tract rebuilt over the years, He spends most of his morning toilet-bound now and has had to give up being an electrician. He weighs 7 stone and probably won't see old age.

I know having to give up work has done him in and if he'd been able to, he'd have a bunch of chaps working for him now and a successful business, his own home, you name it. Every year he has to provide medical reports to retain his disability allowance (each progressively worse than the previous year) and what's more he's treated with contempt as to a passer by, he doesn't look 'disabled' as he can walk.

Then my neighbour, the other end of the spectrum, has never worked a day in his life, has been given a free car, and claims for a 'bad back'. He really is the classic 'waste of space'. He recently threatened and abused my 83 year old neighbour as she refused to allow the cable TV company to dig up her lawn to install his cable TV.

Its a crazy mixed up world indeed!

Jimbuna · 03-16-12, 05:19 PM

^ One of the many concerns of this exercise...how divisive it can often be.

03-16-12, 09:33 AM	#3
Diopos Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Athens, the original one. Posts: 1,226 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Eventually all the population will be declared healthy, able and happy by presidential decree and then we can still enjoy a welfare state with zero cost! . __________________ - Oh God! They're all over the place! CRASH DIVE!!! - Ehm... we can't honey. We're in the car right now. - What?... er right... Doesn't matter! We'll give it a try anyway!

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,918 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	^ One of the many concerns of this exercise...how divisive it can often be. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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03-15-12, 01:12 PM	#1
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	It's not what you have, me old fruit, it's where you have it. The big smoke seems to have an easy eye on claimants but around here if you are still able to put one foot in front of the other then there's nothing wrong with you, even if doing so causes you a lot of pain and you can barely walk twenty-five meters before your hip gives way.

03-16-12, 03:06 AM	#2
Tribesman Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Wasn't there a problem in that the agency doing the testing had to fail a certain number of people. Didn't they get some bad press for declaring terminally ill people fit for work and then having them die before they had recieved the letter telling them they were fit. Come to think of it as something over 40% are overturned is this another A4e case where one of call me daves buddies is scamming the tax payer and commiting fraud in the name of "saving money" for the government.

03-16-12, 11:14 AM	#4
Harald_Lange Ensign Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: NY Harbour, Periscope depth. Posts: 235 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 0	Yea, this is a sensitive subject with me. My brother in law has Chrones disease and has had most of his digestive tract rebuilt over the years, He spends most of his morning toilet-bound now and has had to give up being an electrician. He weighs 7 stone and probably won't see old age. I know having to give up work has done him in and if he'd been able to, he'd have a bunch of chaps working for him now and a successful business, his own home, you name it. Every year he has to provide medical reports to retain his disability allowance (each progressively worse than the previous year) and what's more he's treated with contempt as to a passer by, he doesn't look 'disabled' as he can walk. Then my neighbour, the other end of the spectrum, has never worked a day in his life, has been given a free car, and claims for a 'bad back'. He really is the classic 'waste of space'. He recently threatened and abused my 83 year old neighbour as she refused to allow the cable TV company to dig up her lawn to install his cable TV. Its a crazy mixed up world indeed!