I am again seeking legal adivce about my benefits. I have been told by several people including my own MP Sir Peter Soulsby, that they think that I should be on the higher rates. The DWP have said I am not able to work yet they are saying im not disabled enough to get the higher rates. I now have the support of my local councilor Ross Grant.
I dont choose to be disabled I dont think that anybody would. I would love to be able to go out and work again. That way I wouldnt get comments like im being greedy or lazy.
Most of my family go out and work and it seems that I am the only one not able to. I have to watch every single penny I get coming in. Sometimes my account gets overdrawn and my accoun accours charges.
The government are now going to cut benefits for people yet again. Will we be going back to Victorian times and having poor houses. Pick Pocketing is susposed to be illegal yet with the government cutting peoples money surely thats what they are doing? More people will be turning to crime to be able to live. Then again I suspose that people would be better off in prison. They would get 3 meals a day, no bills to pay and more human rights.
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Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Monday, 6 September 2010
Benefit Scroungers
I have taken this from an artcle printed in the Daily Express by John Chapman.
Peter and Sam Smith with their 10 children: They rake in almost £95,000 a year in benefits
Monday September 6,2010
By John Chapman A FAMILY of scroungers raking in almost £95,000 a year in benefits caused outrage last night after trashing one home and then getting a new four-bedroom house at taxpayers’ expense.
Peter and Sam Smith have been given the £960 a week property in Bristol to house their 10 children
The family were kicked out of their previous home in Bath after a wrecking spree caused £20,000 damage and left it unfit for habitation.
Children’s mattresses and walls were stained with human and animal excrement and the floors were littered with rat droppings and mould. Instead of being punished, the jobless couple have been given the four-bedroom house.
The case highlights a shambolic welfare system that pays the Smiths £44,506 a year in benefits and £960 a week rent. The housing payment, incredibly, includes having breakfast delivered to their door each day.
Yet far from being grateful, Mrs Smith, 36, who has not worked in a decade, complains her home is not large enough and her family is not given enough financial help. The family’s total annual handout from taxpayers is £94,426 including the rent and £140 a week child benefits, £120 a week disability living allowance, £53.90 a week carer’s allowance for 40-year-old Mr Smith, £527 a week in tax credits, and £30 every fortnight for income support.
Mrs Smith also whinged that while the family has food for breakfast delivered to the door, they still have to prepare the morning meal.
She said: “It’s very cramped in the new house. We have four bedrooms with bunk beds for the kids and that’s it. We’ve tried housing associations and they turn their noses up at us because we have so many kids, which isn’t fair.
“We are sitting here waiting while they find somewhere else for us. The benefits aren’t much. By the time we have to pay for food and clothes and electricity we don’t have much left. It’s tough because we don’t even have a TV here. We have no aerial and the kids only have one Nintendo Wii between them.”
A spokesman for the TaxPayers’ Alliance said yesterday: “This family of scroungers doesn’t deserve to get taxpayers’ money. It’s disgraceful they they’re being given a new home after they left their last one unfit to live in. This case is another example of how urgently the benefit system needs to be reformed.
“It cannot be right that there are so many cases where couples are getting absurd amounts in benefits – a lot more than the average salary. We need to overhaul the welfare system so that we improve incentives to work and help the poorest, not encourage families like this to waste taxpayers’ money.”
The family has lived in up to nine houses since Mr Smith quit the Army in 2001 to care for his wife after she was registered disabled with a bad back.
Since then, neither have had jobs and Mrs Smith has given birth to seven of their 10 children, pocketing tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ cash. They were moved into the new home in Kingswood, Bristol, three weeks ago.
Social services visited their Bath home in December 2009 and January and March this year after receiving reports that they were living in filth and squalor. When officers investigated, they were stunned to be confronted by filthy mattresses and human and animal excrement covering the floor and walls.
The landlord of the property, Abdullah Khateeb, who admitted he had not visited the house in years, was ordered to clean up. He immediately evicted the family, dubbing them “parasites”, and has since had to spend about £25,000 on renovating the house to make it fit to live in.
Mr Khateeb, 60, from Bath, said: “When they moved in they had five children. By the time they left four years later it had doubled to 10 – and they wanted more. The place was disgusting.
“It’s a miracle the youngsters aren’t ill, the house was so dirty. It’s not fair on the children, they don’t deserve to live like this. I’ve never seen anything like it. It made me want to be sick. The council later told me the family were known to them.”
“The benefits system is to blame. This family are on huge benefits and move from one place to the next.” The family’s current Bristol home is less than a mile from another infamous family – the 12-strong Batemans who hit the headlines last month after complaining they needed a bigger house.
Mr Smith believes his situation mirrors that of the Batemans and even argues that families like his are victims. He said: “Just because we have a big family we are not offered housing big enough for our children. It’s not fair. The amount we are given isn’t that much and I’m constantly having to rob Peter to pay Paul.”
Bath and North East Somerset Council said it had a legal duty to rehouse the homeless children.
It said the £960-a-week bed-and-breakfast deal was a “temporary” arrangement. A spokesman said: “Due to the size of this family there are very limited options.”
Yet they say because "I can manage" I am less disabled. How does that work. I have been told I am greedy or I am lazy because I am complaining about my benefits being cut. Yet the same people are more accepting of families like this.
I wont have a family because I am not able to work and its not fair for the govenment and funementally the tax payer to have to pay.
Peter and Sam Smith with their 10 children: They rake in almost £95,000 a year in benefits
Monday September 6,2010
By John Chapman A FAMILY of scroungers raking in almost £95,000 a year in benefits caused outrage last night after trashing one home and then getting a new four-bedroom house at taxpayers’ expense.
Peter and Sam Smith have been given the £960 a week property in Bristol to house their 10 children
The family were kicked out of their previous home in Bath after a wrecking spree caused £20,000 damage and left it unfit for habitation.
Children’s mattresses and walls were stained with human and animal excrement and the floors were littered with rat droppings and mould. Instead of being punished, the jobless couple have been given the four-bedroom house.
The case highlights a shambolic welfare system that pays the Smiths £44,506 a year in benefits and £960 a week rent. The housing payment, incredibly, includes having breakfast delivered to their door each day.
Yet far from being grateful, Mrs Smith, 36, who has not worked in a decade, complains her home is not large enough and her family is not given enough financial help. The family’s total annual handout from taxpayers is £94,426 including the rent and £140 a week child benefits, £120 a week disability living allowance, £53.90 a week carer’s allowance for 40-year-old Mr Smith, £527 a week in tax credits, and £30 every fortnight for income support.
Mrs Smith also whinged that while the family has food for breakfast delivered to the door, they still have to prepare the morning meal.
She said: “It’s very cramped in the new house. We have four bedrooms with bunk beds for the kids and that’s it. We’ve tried housing associations and they turn their noses up at us because we have so many kids, which isn’t fair.
“We are sitting here waiting while they find somewhere else for us. The benefits aren’t much. By the time we have to pay for food and clothes and electricity we don’t have much left. It’s tough because we don’t even have a TV here. We have no aerial and the kids only have one Nintendo Wii between them.”
A spokesman for the TaxPayers’ Alliance said yesterday: “This family of scroungers doesn’t deserve to get taxpayers’ money. It’s disgraceful they they’re being given a new home after they left their last one unfit to live in. This case is another example of how urgently the benefit system needs to be reformed.
“It cannot be right that there are so many cases where couples are getting absurd amounts in benefits – a lot more than the average salary. We need to overhaul the welfare system so that we improve incentives to work and help the poorest, not encourage families like this to waste taxpayers’ money.”
The family has lived in up to nine houses since Mr Smith quit the Army in 2001 to care for his wife after she was registered disabled with a bad back.
Since then, neither have had jobs and Mrs Smith has given birth to seven of their 10 children, pocketing tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ cash. They were moved into the new home in Kingswood, Bristol, three weeks ago.
Social services visited their Bath home in December 2009 and January and March this year after receiving reports that they were living in filth and squalor. When officers investigated, they were stunned to be confronted by filthy mattresses and human and animal excrement covering the floor and walls.
The landlord of the property, Abdullah Khateeb, who admitted he had not visited the house in years, was ordered to clean up. He immediately evicted the family, dubbing them “parasites”, and has since had to spend about £25,000 on renovating the house to make it fit to live in.
Mr Khateeb, 60, from Bath, said: “When they moved in they had five children. By the time they left four years later it had doubled to 10 – and they wanted more. The place was disgusting.
“It’s a miracle the youngsters aren’t ill, the house was so dirty. It’s not fair on the children, they don’t deserve to live like this. I’ve never seen anything like it. It made me want to be sick. The council later told me the family were known to them.”
“The benefits system is to blame. This family are on huge benefits and move from one place to the next.” The family’s current Bristol home is less than a mile from another infamous family – the 12-strong Batemans who hit the headlines last month after complaining they needed a bigger house.
Mr Smith believes his situation mirrors that of the Batemans and even argues that families like his are victims. He said: “Just because we have a big family we are not offered housing big enough for our children. It’s not fair. The amount we are given isn’t that much and I’m constantly having to rob Peter to pay Paul.”
Bath and North East Somerset Council said it had a legal duty to rehouse the homeless children.
It said the £960-a-week bed-and-breakfast deal was a “temporary” arrangement. A spokesman said: “Due to the size of this family there are very limited options.”
Yet they say because "I can manage" I am less disabled. How does that work. I have been told I am greedy or I am lazy because I am complaining about my benefits being cut. Yet the same people are more accepting of families like this.
I wont have a family because I am not able to work and its not fair for the govenment and funementally the tax payer to have to pay.
Friday, 23 July 2010
Update
Again I reapplied for Disability Living Allowance at the middle rates. Again I have been turned down. In basic terms because I have coping methods it makes me less disabled. They don't take into account I can never work again.
I have also lost some of my housing and council tax benefit. They seem to let Asylum seekers have no trouble having money, yet people who have lived in the country all their lives get shafted. In London an asylum seeker gets paid £2000 a week in housing benefit, after being moved from a house only costing £800 a week housing benefit because she didn't like the area. I am not a racist but they need to think about the people in this country who need help first before helping others.
There is people who get high rate disability for having an addiction or just being depressed. If they have an addiction surely giving them more money gives them more money to spend on it. If someone is depressed, they should go out and get a job perhaps that would stop them feeling so depressed.
I have been told by people to stop complaining and be grateful for for what I get. If I could work I would are they or anybody out there, willing to find me a job that I can do for 3 hours a week for a full weeks wages then I would work.
I read in a news paper about a war hero who lost a leg. He has been told hes not entitled to some benefits. This is completely wrong. He was fighting for our freedom he deserves all the help he can get.
This government and the last seem to think if you can cope your not entitled to help. It needs sorting!
I have also lost some of my housing and council tax benefit. They seem to let Asylum seekers have no trouble having money, yet people who have lived in the country all their lives get shafted. In London an asylum seeker gets paid £2000 a week in housing benefit, after being moved from a house only costing £800 a week housing benefit because she didn't like the area. I am not a racist but they need to think about the people in this country who need help first before helping others.
There is people who get high rate disability for having an addiction or just being depressed. If they have an addiction surely giving them more money gives them more money to spend on it. If someone is depressed, they should go out and get a job perhaps that would stop them feeling so depressed.
I have been told by people to stop complaining and be grateful for for what I get. If I could work I would are they or anybody out there, willing to find me a job that I can do for 3 hours a week for a full weeks wages then I would work.
I read in a news paper about a war hero who lost a leg. He has been told hes not entitled to some benefits. This is completely wrong. He was fighting for our freedom he deserves all the help he can get.
This government and the last seem to think if you can cope your not entitled to help. It needs sorting!
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Benefit Changes
Following recent releases from the Government and the DWP it has become clear that they intend on making it far more difficult to successfully claim Income Related Benefit's.
This will be partly done by forcing sick and disabled people back into work by working out exactly what they believe those people would be capable of doing. Many Welfare and Disabled charities have shown contempt and dread at these prospect's pointing out that sick and disabled people in the work place poses a real risk of injury to both themselves and others. Not to mention the probability that forcing such people back to work to early, or when they are clearly unable, will only aggravate their conditions causing them to go back onto sick and disabled benefit's; if they can get them.
So what happen's if they can't? It's simple really; they will simply plunge even further into poverty, possibly losing their homes and maybe even loved one's because of the mental and financial stress it would put on the family structure. Either that, or they will have to work, making their health even worse and possibly end up in an early grave. I could be critical and say that the Government would welcome this because of saving's to the NHS and the Welfare System, but then that could get me in trouble, lol. But this is how it comes across. A kind of discreet Social Genocide, and if any Government personal are reading this don't bother suing because I ain't got nothing, lol. Unfortunately it looks as if it won't matter which party is in power after the election as both major parties look set to cut welfare and reduce the number of people claiming them.
Britain has the highest rate of Sick and Disabled benefit claimant's in Europe but maybe they should start looking at the reason's behind this. It is not necessarily down to people being "work shy", but more to do with the poor quality of living standard's in many communities like overcrowding or housing that poses a health hazard to their occupant's. This is the link to crime too! Instead of throwing money at constant welfare research and reform they should pump it into improving the quality of living for so many of Britain's citizens. Only this can improve people's health, where applicable, and will eventually bare fruit in the form of less people off work sick and improved life for all. Those saving's could then be put into improving the lives of disabled people by providing better services and standard of care as well as making the job of carer's much easier.
The problem is those in a position of power have mostly lived a financially stable life and have never had to learn how to live on nothing. Program's life "Tower Block of Commons" on channel 4 have tried to address this matter and in my own personal opinion, very successfully. Politicians who have volunteered to participate in the program have finally seen just how difficult it is to live of state benefit's and are also beginning to realise that the majority of those people DO NOT do so through laziness or simply to get some "free" cash. Of course there are those who choose not to work but they are in the minority and at a time when unemployed people out number available job's by as much as 10 to 1, it is both irresponsible and unfair to label unemployed people in such a manner. If you haven't yet seen this program on channel 4 I would definitely recommend it. You can view the episodes here;
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/tower-block-of-commons/4od#series-1
So let's see where some of that wasted money is going. The following research probably cost the tax payer more than your average sick or disabled person per year, and show's how the Government and the DWP see falling number's in those claiming Income Related benefit's. One of the most frightening of which is the one on Pension Credit. If they think our mature citizens will not be claiming the money on which they depend, just where exactly will it be coming from. You surely can't expect these people to work,....can you?!
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/projections-of-entitlement-to-incomerelatedbenefitsjune2008.pdf
With thanks to Steven Preece for sending this to me.
This will be partly done by forcing sick and disabled people back into work by working out exactly what they believe those people would be capable of doing. Many Welfare and Disabled charities have shown contempt and dread at these prospect's pointing out that sick and disabled people in the work place poses a real risk of injury to both themselves and others. Not to mention the probability that forcing such people back to work to early, or when they are clearly unable, will only aggravate their conditions causing them to go back onto sick and disabled benefit's; if they can get them.
So what happen's if they can't? It's simple really; they will simply plunge even further into poverty, possibly losing their homes and maybe even loved one's because of the mental and financial stress it would put on the family structure. Either that, or they will have to work, making their health even worse and possibly end up in an early grave. I could be critical and say that the Government would welcome this because of saving's to the NHS and the Welfare System, but then that could get me in trouble, lol. But this is how it comes across. A kind of discreet Social Genocide, and if any Government personal are reading this don't bother suing because I ain't got nothing, lol. Unfortunately it looks as if it won't matter which party is in power after the election as both major parties look set to cut welfare and reduce the number of people claiming them.
Britain has the highest rate of Sick and Disabled benefit claimant's in Europe but maybe they should start looking at the reason's behind this. It is not necessarily down to people being "work shy", but more to do with the poor quality of living standard's in many communities like overcrowding or housing that poses a health hazard to their occupant's. This is the link to crime too! Instead of throwing money at constant welfare research and reform they should pump it into improving the quality of living for so many of Britain's citizens. Only this can improve people's health, where applicable, and will eventually bare fruit in the form of less people off work sick and improved life for all. Those saving's could then be put into improving the lives of disabled people by providing better services and standard of care as well as making the job of carer's much easier.
The problem is those in a position of power have mostly lived a financially stable life and have never had to learn how to live on nothing. Program's life "Tower Block of Commons" on channel 4 have tried to address this matter and in my own personal opinion, very successfully. Politicians who have volunteered to participate in the program have finally seen just how difficult it is to live of state benefit's and are also beginning to realise that the majority of those people DO NOT do so through laziness or simply to get some "free" cash. Of course there are those who choose not to work but they are in the minority and at a time when unemployed people out number available job's by as much as 10 to 1, it is both irresponsible and unfair to label unemployed people in such a manner. If you haven't yet seen this program on channel 4 I would definitely recommend it. You can view the episodes here;
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/tower-block-of-commons/4od#series-1
So let's see where some of that wasted money is going. The following research probably cost the tax payer more than your average sick or disabled person per year, and show's how the Government and the DWP see falling number's in those claiming Income Related benefit's. One of the most frightening of which is the one on Pension Credit. If they think our mature citizens will not be claiming the money on which they depend, just where exactly will it be coming from. You surely can't expect these people to work,....can you?!
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/projections-of-entitlement-to-incomerelatedbenefitsjune2008.pdf
With thanks to Steven Preece for sending this to me.
Sunday, 3 January 2010
New Blog
I'm going to start this blog of with a poem from Rudyard Kipling
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
What I think Kipling is trying to say is that if you try your hardest then you should be proud of your self.
I was thinking the other day about all these servicemen and women who go to war for us and come back injured. They do not complain, yet they do not get treated with the respect they deserve.
A lot of these people will never be able to work again but they still keep smiling. I read in a newspaper about one serviceman. This man had lost both legs in a mortar attack. He now has prosthetic legs. The gentleman wants to go back to the front line. This we all should be proud of.
I feel guilty because of the fact that I cannot work. I complain about not getting enough help from the government when ex servicemen hardly get any help at all.
There should be equallity for all. Everyone has the right to be treated with a bit of dignity.
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
More Prejudice
One of my previous posts has been taken from my blog and disected. I have copied it below and will add the link so you can see its not edited. I will give my comments to it afterwards.
Here is the link.
This person and others see that if a person looks normal on the outside they are lazy and fit to work.
If she spent one afteroon in a Headway she would see this is not the case. I have to concetrate really hard to do normal things and it makes me very tired. She said that I should stop being picky would she rather i did job that would make me even more ill? She doesnt work herself yet she feels she has the right to preach about other peoples situations.
moaning bully
i read something today that my internet bully wrote an i found it very funny to read how he moaning about being disabled .. here is what he said ..
"I visited the job centre today. I had a look at the available jobs. There is nothing suitable what so ever for me. When you apply for a job legally you have to tell them of any risks that you would be to the company.
Companies cannot refuse you employment because you are disabled. But with my health there are not many jobs I can do.
I would need to be happy in a job that I did. What is the point of doing a job if it makes you unhappy? If I wasn't happy in the job, surely that would make me even more ill. "
now i do fine what he said very funny .. cause he is not really wanting a job.... if he did he would try harder for a job.. an if i was in debt of £360 something with the conical i would take any job i could get.. to get out of that deft ...if you are that stressed i would suggest that u take anything u can get an stop complain about what u are not getting
"I am already starting to get stressed about money. Yes I have the net but that is not a luxury to me its a necessary. A lot of people with disabilities find the net is good for them to communicate with the outside world. "
well let me say this about the net an you .. if u are that stressed are u worried about being caught out being a bully what u get off on bullying 2 woman in over 2 years .. dose that give u a hard on simon north .. it must cause if your that horny why not talk to your mate dave.. he know all the porn an dating sites.. he can hook u up with a woman ...
if u can sit on a chat site for hour at a time or on the pc bullying i think u can get a job sitting down...
"I recently went for a night out. This was my first in about 8 months and I had to save for that. Most people of my age are out nearly every weekend if they don't have families. "
well simon north .. u truly do have a lot of crap u say ... now this is out right lie cause u went out on not to long ago .. as u have bragged about it ....
"I know the content of my blogs is random but when I have things running through my head I just need to put them down"
well simon north all i can say to u is wake up u was found fit your doctor an the medcail... stop moaning about how u are not being treated right .. there is many thing u can do out there .. stop being picky an take what u can get.....
an u plast all over the internet " why work when the govement pay me not to "
Here is the link.
This person and others see that if a person looks normal on the outside they are lazy and fit to work.
If she spent one afteroon in a Headway she would see this is not the case. I have to concetrate really hard to do normal things and it makes me very tired. She said that I should stop being picky would she rather i did job that would make me even more ill? She doesnt work herself yet she feels she has the right to preach about other peoples situations.
Friday, 9 October 2009
incensed
I had to post this today as I am extremely pissed off. I have received a letter saying that I owe £396 back payment of rent. The government have decided that even though they are giving me less money to live on I can afford to pay £18.50 a week rent.
This is on top of all my other bills as stated in previous blogs.
In there eyes I'm not disabled enough to get financial help. Yet I am not fit to work. Where is the logic in that.
As I have said before I have 2 brain tumours. What part of being fit to work is that? If I came of the boat not speaking a word of English I would have more rights. I would love to be able to go out and work but i'm physically not able to.
There are cases out there of people claiming money that they are not entitled to and get away with it. This government needs to sort them out first before penalising the rest of us.
When I was in hospital they thought I wouldn't live that long. I'm still here now but each day is a struggle. Some days I have good days, some are bad. Because I have learnt to adapt so I can manage in life. In the DWP I am less disabled.
The person in a wheel chair who still has all their faculties IE its only a problem with their legs, They can still work in an office yes. But there are people like me who have internal problems who get neglected.
The conservatives want to get people on incapacity off the sick and on to income support to save the government money if they get in would that include people like me?
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Disability
Just because a person looks "normal" on the out side doesn't mean they are normal on the inside.I appear normal on the outside but on the inside is where the problems lie.
People with certain conditions get a raw deal. The government would rather get everyone into work to save money. They do not think about the long term. If like the government preferred, everyone worked it would cost them billions in hospital costs.
When I was fit and able to work the manager employed someone on a trial with downs syndrome. The company I worked at had n problem employing disabled people. I have been told by someone I can sit on my computer so henceforth I can get a job. If I worked now I would find it very hard. I do a bit of volunteer work now and I struggle after 3 hours. People say im just lazy but I have to work twice as hard as most people. That's what makes me tired.
I already feel useless that I have nothing to contribute, but when people snipe about it that hurts more. I would love to be able to make a difference to at least one persons life but I cant. I did want to try and do a degree just to prove to people I may be disabled but im not thick.
People think having a brain injury means that you have mental health problems. That is not always true. It sometimes means you have to try a lot harder to do basic things.
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Long Term Sick!
Im watching a programme on Channel 4 at the moment, about the government trying to get people on the sick back to work.
They are saying its not about what you cant do. It is about what you can do. With my condition as I have explained in an earlier post I am totally unfit to work.
Its ok getting people off the sick but if you are going to risk your health and cost the government more who wins.
Because of my tumours, it will be hard to find a company willing to take me on. Besides it would cost them a lot more to insure me. I get tired easy and cannot sit down for very long. I fall asleep sometimes in the afternoon round friends and families houses. I cannot drive because I have double vision and could black out at any time.
Im 30 and embarassed to tell people that I cannot (not wont) work . I know for the rest of my life I wont be working. I would love to be able to gain some self respect back and work.
There are people on the sick who are fit to work. Why should those who genuinely cannot work be treated like shit and looked on.
When I was a kid we had a neighbour who used to lift slabs and do his garden. Then when anyone official came to visit he started using his crutches to make himself look worse. Yes I can walk but slowly and really have to concentrate. Because I can walk very slowly, looks like they will try and make work.
I do try and do volunteer work but after 3 hours I'm exhausted. How would I be if I did a full weeks work? The government need to look at people who can work but don't work first.
Most people around my age have families now and are happy. Because I'm on benefits I don't think its fair for me to have a family for other people to pay.
Saturday, 29 August 2009
More Government Stupidity
Just to prove its not just me getting a raw deal with this government read the article from The Mirror news paper below
Woman refused disability benefits - in case amputated leg "gets better" By Paul Byrne 29/08/2009
A diabetic woman whose badly-infected leg was amputated has been refused disability benefits - in case it "got better".
Former nurse Beryl Prescott, 57, was told to reapply in three months, when it would be decided if she was genuinely disabled.
Beryl said: "Apparently, you have to wait three months after you come out of hospital before you can apply in case you 'get better".
"I'm not a doctor but I am pretty sure that's not going to happen. I don't have a magic grow-bag."
She added: "I am not a fraudster, I'm not trying it on. I am a 100% genuine case. I have a prosthetic leg."
Partially-sighted Beryl had her leg amputated in January. She applied for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) from her hospital bed, but was told it would be a three-month wait before her claim was even processed.
Beryl, from Crossens, near Southport, Merseyside, said: "It sickens me that you do your best and pay your bills all your life and then you get treated with no respect."
The Government insists on a three-month qualifying period before awarding DLA. Claimants must be unable or nearly unable to walk due to a permanent disability, the loss of one or both limbs, or being partially sighted.
A spokesman for the Department of Work and Pensions, which has given Beryl more than £1,700 in back payments, said: "We cannot comment on individual cases."
There are different types of disability as well. Yes I can walk but slowly and have to compose myself every so often. But I get tired very easy so would be unfit to work. I get dizzy when I bend down and could black out. I have to really know an area to be alone there. I get confused sometimes. I dont want sympathy I just want to get on with my life with some dignity.
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