DWP’s perfect scheme to do away with WRAG Being disabled, I thought that the constant cycle of assessment, benefit reduction, appeal and benefit reinstatement was bad enough. However, DWP came up with another great idea that will help us get back into workplace: People on sickness benefits will be required to have regular meetings with doctors, occupational health nurses and therapists to help them address their barriers to work – or face losing their benefit. The pilot scheme, which will run between November 2013 and August 2016, looks like a desperate attempt to cover up the failure of the back to work schemes. The details are vague but it seems that it’s just another way of implementing sanctions. As many people’s conditions are intermittent, I am sure that will lead to many a missed appointment and the follow-up smear campaign in the papers: lazy benefit scroungers do not want to work. I bet they will use the jumping to conclusions strategy that proved so fruitful during functional assessments. Having make-up and clean clothes on means you do not suffer from depression. Coming to the assessment on your own (because you have no support whatsoever) means you do not suffer from anxiety. Getting up quickly (because you are high on painkillers that come with so many warnings you shouldn’t even be responsible for tying your own shoelaces) means you never suffer any pain at all. workshyscrounger.wordpress/2013/07/11/dwps-perfect-scheme-to-do-away-with-wrag/
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 19:06:20 +0000
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