Le persone disabili avvertono di brutali tagli “segreti” all’accesso DWP al supporto del lavoro: “È stato orribile”
Disabled people warn of brutal ‘secret’ cuts to DWP Access to Work support: ‘It’s been horrific’
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Le persone disabili avvertono di brutali tagli “segreti” all’accesso DWP al supporto del lavoro: “È stato orribile”
Disabled people warn of brutal ‘secret’ cuts to DWP Access to Work support: ‘It’s been horrific’
di fantasy53
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It just goes to show that the nonsense about getting more disabled people into work was just that common nonsense.
The labour government doesn’t want to help disable people in any meaningful way but reducing the access to work scheme will lead to more disabled people in poverty, without The support from that scheme employers won’t give Disabled candidates a second look and those were currently in work will be forced to quit and go onto benefits.
Seen someone go through this first hand many years ago. They couldn’t walk more than 100m and the report fabricated that apparently they are “active fit and play regular sports”. Appealed and it worked. Just makes me sad nothing’s changed. No sense of accountability by the DWP or their contractors.
Well they couldn’t go after pip which had no work requirement. So not they’re going after workers too.
Seems to just be a policy of punishment
So they want disabled people in work and are trying to achieve that by cutting the fund that helps disabled people keep or access work.
As someone who has been through this system and benefitted from it, I’d happily see it cut if done correctly. People can, and do, rinse it for new desks, chairs, monitors etc every year. £1000s gone per person on “new” kit. It needs fixing.
Some of the support has been very badly administered. I was unable to get any help as someone who has to work from their bed due to a spinal injury on a technicality. My friend managed to blag loads of expensive gear just by telling them she had Adhd with no diagnosis and she was already working as a gardener and didnt need all this note taking stuff like a dictation pen and laptop and an adhd coach. Theres a “disability influencer” with super rich parents who applies for everything on the state just to prove to the “haters” that she qualifies and got about 10k of custom wheelchair and power wheels to access being an influencer when she could already do that and already had 2 wheelchairs only to discard that chair a month later when her family bought her a 5 grand power chair as she couldnt really use it.
But Labour supporters said that they were doing the cuts etc to help disabled back into work, you’re meaning to tell me that it turns out they hold just as horrid views and policies as the tories (like every disabled person was saying while getting told even by people who say they’re centre left that they’re a drain on the economy and don’t deserve the pittance they do actually get) towards the disabled? Massively shocked there could not see that coming!
To the sound of the transformers theme tune…
It’s LABOUR…… Tories iiiiiin disguiiiiiise.
Exactly the opposite of what government claims their policy is. If the original plan, cut PIP and get people back to work, was ever going to be effective ATW funding would need to increase as PIP reduced.
This story indicates that the plan was just to reduce support and leave people to suffer and die.
The other side.
I have a friend who owns a business and deliberately hires disabled people so she can claim the money back from Access to Work.
She’s a support worker and fills out the forms for her staff as soon as she hires them. They’re only on minimum wage but because she’s a fully trained BSL interpreter she charges the government £67 per hour to support her own staff.
I haven’t said it to her but maybe it’s a good thing they’re taking a harder line on applications and pushing back more.
Thoughts?
My mum had to appeal once. This woman is basically unable to walk more than a few feet of herself, she has osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, she’s had 2 mini strokes and has broken 4 bones in the span of 5 years. She has to take heavy duty medication and she has crippling social anxiety. She worked from age 16-45 and has always had a great worth ethic. It’s not laziness, she is genuinely unable to work even a part time job with her current health.
Well, the person came out to the house to do some sort of inspection, and because my mum offered to make them a cup of tea and successfully did so, they deemed her fit enough to work. She appealed it though and it’s sorted now, but yeah, disregarded everything else solely because she felt confident enough to offer and make a cup of fucking tea.