Why are sickness and incapacity benefit payments so high?
I currently work in DWP department dealing with IB claimants. Your story is not beleiveable To get Carers Allowance you have to convince them that you cannot perform basic tasks for yourself (such as washing, dressing, eating, going to the toilet etc). Very few people can actually get it. You cannot get mobility allowance for epilepsy. My mum in law (who has a crumbling spine full of metal pins and bolts and has to take daily pain releif for her condition) couldn’t get it and she has real trouble walking – she was not considered “disabled enough” as she could just about walk “enough” to satisfy their criteria (albeit with difficulty and pain). Mobility cars are even harder to get – my mum in law couldn’t get one and she has genuine mobility problems. She had to buy her own car, (or rather, my partner had to buy her one – getting into debt to do so.) People on IB or incapacity-related Income Support have to go for a yearly medical examination with a Dr employed by Atos Healthcare, the c
Life is hard for so many people and it wouldn’t be if they didn’t have to pay so much tax. However, i do think that there are greater drains on public funds than benefit scroungers. To be honest, i don’t envy those scroungers as they are complete losers and have a crap quality of life anyway. I’d rather die than sit around drinking all day for the rest of my life. It does seem very unfair as thsoe people are getting something for nothing when you get single mothers working 2 jobs just to put food on the table. Or, as you said, elderly people having to choose between food and heating because they can’t afford both. I do think that the system, despite being exploited by many, does help a lot of deserving people so i don’t think they should get less money-perhaps we should just give them food and medication rather than cash, or check up on the benefitees more often. I really respect you for working so hard, and the scroungers give people who do need benefits a bad name-making you all look
