tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post7600994345271578318..comments2024-03-28T09:16:33.241+00:00Comments on Diary of a Benefit Scrounger: Happy Mother's Day!Sue Marshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-47344647630550381382012-07-14T22:27:40.865+01:002012-07-14T22:27:40.865+01:00Good luck with everything. I am not in a fit state...Good luck with everything. I am not in a fit state to work mentally or physically but I will because I cannot face ATOS etc can only feel if things continue as they are suicide will be the eventual option. Hopefully there are so many of us now being screwed things will have to change for the better- eventuallyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-53456115768914856202012-05-22T12:55:29.182+01:002012-05-22T12:55:29.182+01:00I got my Forms on christmas eve 2011 filled it in ...I got my Forms on christmas eve 2011 filled it in sent it back and waited in febuary i got my brown envelope , I was to attend a medical on the 8th match how ever on the 7th march i recieved another brown envelope saying i no longer needed to attend for the medical a a full time medical officer had read my files and desided it not nessarey for me to attend and the dwp would contact me at a later date ,Two weeks later another brown envelope dwp had desided i would be place in the work support group this means i will have to attend work based interviews to keep getting my benifits so i have appealed,I had my first interview yesterday and was told i will have to continue to have these untill my appeal is deasided all well and good but i told her i wished her luck in finding me a job with a carer that can help me with my toilet needs come and get me up and washed every day and take me to my new job see to my medication and deal with my incontinance , My Illnesses are as follows , Ischaemic Heart with mycardial infarction, Chronic obstructive pulminary desease, Ankiloseing spondolitis ,Osteoarthritis that affects my hands knees and feet ,Angina, type 2 diabetes, High Blood pressure, and urgency micturition incontinence,Now what i am finding is the people who are genuiley ill are being forced to do all this when you have a woman of 34 who is very capabile of going to Asda stealing working in the local kebab shop on the side who claims she has menal health issues gets put in the support group with no need to attend any work based interviews , Then there is the 17 year old boy with A.D.H.D whose mother claims cant go out or live alone as he is incapable but uses his D.L.A to buy and use drugs has no problem walking the streets all night, So clearly the people who they are suppose to be targeting are still getting away with it and the ones who do need the help are loseing it , <br /><br />TAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-55013471890162652562012-04-28T20:19:04.305+01:002012-04-28T20:19:04.305+01:00It's bloody not hyperbole and exaggeration. EV...It's bloody not hyperbole and exaggeration. EVERY SINGLE TIME I get one of those brown envelopes I feel sick and light-headed. They keep sending them even though I have a deteriorating condition that's getting worse. <br />I'm sorry that I'm using the taxes that I'm entitled to. Give me the option and I'd be working anywhere rather than having to take morphine to get out of the bed that I have soiled, stained, bled and vomited in. <br />I rarely wish ill upon anyone but I wish I could give every single doubter out there a week in my body.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-91105402204284048982012-03-27T13:26:58.071+01:002012-03-27T13:26:58.071+01:00Hyperbole! It does nothing to enhance your cause!Hyperbole! It does nothing to enhance your cause!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-35870033182793114512012-03-22T00:54:40.351+00:002012-03-22T00:54:40.351+00:00Three years ago my ankle collapsed. It was ignored...Three years ago my ankle collapsed. It was ignored by my original GP for twelve months. The pain I'm in on a daily basis gets worse and worse. Because I'm not using the leg properly, I get all kinds of fierce cramps in it, you can see the layers of muscle being wrenched apart by spasms.<br />Won't even apply for disability benefits, even though like all of you, the affliction has permanently changed the level of activity I can engage in. I won't stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting assistance.<br />Yet the clever sods who know all the loopholes and blaggard the Benefits Agency staff till they get what they want, will continue to leech money from those people who really do need the assistance.<br />My friend is returning to work after twenty years and operations to remedy sight problems caused by thryroid malfunction. I've got her into volunteering with the Fire Service where I also work in a support role. They're stopping her money in July completely. She's hoping the skills we can give her in the meantime will give her a fighting chance in the work place when applying for jobs.<br />I really, really hope this is the case, because they're making it nigh on impossible for people to get any financial help.<br />We're going back to Victorian times where the incapacitated people are pretty much left to fend for themselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-55704511081517121432012-03-20T22:28:04.980+00:002012-03-20T22:28:04.980+00:00Hello.. am "able bodied" and do what I c...Hello.. am "able bodied" and do what I can to promote what is really going on including plugging this blog and challenging stereotype propaganda.. We are definitely working on these antihuman(thanks jayne) actions together..I don't know where i am going with this but I am going to keep going,..I don't buy into the BS either :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-17056224604420144682012-03-20T01:26:01.351+00:002012-03-20T01:26:01.351+00:00The review is probably the PIP interview. Personal...The review is probably the PIP interview. Personal independance is replacing DLA.<br /><br />But if you're talking about ESA, thats just them saying the fully qualified Atos 'Doctor' will magically wave his or her healing wand over you and you will be cured.<br /><br />Atos are so qualified to access us, they can even give a prognosis(lol) about the amount of time it will take us to work(again lol)<br /><br />Most of that was sarcasm re: Atos but most was true, they can claim you can work in X months, despite not having qualifications in your condition.<br /><br />They are as qualified as a random person in the street to assess peoples conditions.<br /><br />If you need more of a laugh, get someone to ring the DWP if you cant do it, and you'l find out the person from Atos has no qualifications in your disability, Its true, they can use Nurses, Physios, hell anyone really who has the morals of a Nazi officer in their death camps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-29404582226475133962012-03-19T16:36:48.670+00:002012-03-19T16:36:48.670+00:00"use your talents to benefit yourself, instea...<b> "use your talents to benefit yourself, instead of wearing yourself down trying to change something which cannot be changed because it really cannot be afforded" </b><br /><br />We can afford to cut tax for the rich but we can't afford a welfare state?<br /><br />Fuck you Bob and all who think like you. May you soon need the services you would support the destruction of for others.R32noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-73818078260441605292012-03-19T14:30:08.631+00:002012-03-19T14:30:08.631+00:00If you want to know WHY the government is acting l...If you want to know WHY the government is acting like this, watch this documentary TAKING LIBERTIES in the following link. It is 1.5 hours long but it is very enlightening. <br /><br />http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/true-stories-taking-liberties/<br /><br />Also if you like to learn more about all the privatizations (NHS,roads,education etc) and for WHO IS THE 1% behind all that, I STRONGLY recommend to watch all the ZEITGEIST films<br /><br />http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ <br /><br />And, finally, stop watching the stupid box and get educated about what is happening in the world by watching documentaries that will never be broadcasted on a totalitarian's country tv. It is so fascinating to find THE TRUTH BEHIND ALL THIS SUFFERING.Its free, good tv.<br /><br /> http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/<br /><br />Great site - highly recommended. Please stay strong, we have a long way to fight for our rights.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-74597557125516375562012-03-19T14:21:43.814+00:002012-03-19T14:21:43.814+00:00Please keep up your work hun...
My hubby works eve...Please keep up your work hun...<br />My hubby works every hour god sends - after a year of waiting for my tribunal hearing I scraped the lowest rate care component. It isn't enough. I cannot work because of my illness. We barely manage.<br />I sit in the cold house all day because we cannot afford to heat it - the pain from the cold is terrible.<br /><br />We scrape by as best we can.. We don't have disability - nor mobility - and we struggle with the wheelchair in and out of the car on my bad days when I need it - in a normal car parking space... but hey! I was asking for too much and didn't really need more than the minimum care component... <br />They say I can have it until 2014 with a "review" before then. Whatever that means. <br /><br />I worked hard until I got ill - but now I'm just another drain on society - even though my husband does his best to provide for us all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-45378231431661045012012-03-19T09:35:25.800+00:002012-03-19T09:35:25.800+00:00".....of course they don't mean people li...".....of course they don't mean people like you."<br />"Yes they do" <br />"But your seriously ill, you almost died last summer"<br />(This is true, my wife was told to expect the worst)<br />"I will be declared fit for work"<br />"But you can't even get through a day without some major crisis, you'll die"<br />"I know"<br />"But they can't do that, it's almost murder"<br />"That my friend is their plan, they consider the sick and disabled as useless eaters, to be got rid off by any means possible".<br />"I don't believe it"<br /><br />This was the gist of a conversation I had recently with a LibDem local activist.<br /><br />Well done Sue, keep up your blog, what is happening to the sick and disabled is harking back to the polices of 1930s Germany. I am with you all the way. <br />(I'm down as anonymous as I'm not quite sure how to do anything else).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-3196293649813303152012-03-19T08:09:52.016+00:002012-03-19T08:09:52.016+00:00That made me laugh so much I read it to MY little ...That made me laugh so much I read it to MY little boy. He said "Wearing any pants at all would be a good start." He's 7 ;<br /><br />As for standing, I've dismissed it as impossible. That said, I wonder? The first Skype MP? Showing new working models proving sick & disabled people CAN do it if given a chance? I dunno.<br /><br />For all the moaning, MPs work ridiculously hard. It's lonely, long hours, thankless and often excruciatingly boring.<br /><br />I might stand here, but you could pin a rosette on a sheep and the Tory would still win (I think they tried that pone year, lol)<br /><br />Actually, my constituency MP is very good and popular too, so he almost deserves his vast majority.Sue Marshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-30061358327069825052012-03-19T04:19:06.468+00:002012-03-19T04:19:06.468+00:00It is time for Ed Milliband to get his big boy'...It is time for Ed Milliband to get his big boy's pants on.<br />Or if he cannot manage it, make way for someone who can.<br />There is an election coming sooner than he thinks, or the alternative will make last summer look like a neighbourhood barbecue.<br /><br />50 doctors standing against the tories is a start. Now we just need to find a few more people who are actually sane to do the same.<br /><br />Sue, you should stand. We know you are sick, but turning up for debates appears to be optional anyway. You have heard more of them and read more of the legislation than any of the MPs anyway.<br /><br />It is time to get rid of the rot and vote for anyone who isn't a money grabbing, pre-bought psychopath.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-55969776143783800622012-03-19T02:34:29.751+00:002012-03-19T02:34:29.751+00:00This whole thing just makes me sick, scrolling thr...This whole thing just makes me sick, scrolling through the stories and comments, I pretty much just read everything posted in complete and utter silence, no thoughts at all beyond my original stunned response, this is just sick.<br /><br />This goverment is sick, its frightning for us disabled.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-91182984636926467302012-03-19T00:33:18.529+00:002012-03-19T00:33:18.529+00:00And not content with floggin off the nhs ,the poli...And not content with floggin off the nhs ,the police,the post office and everything that aint nailed down the WE ALL payed for they now plan to sell of the bloody roads we KEEP paying for to investors from anywhere even bloody China.<br />NOW habe we had enough yet to actually rise up and get rid of these bastards cos if we havent and we dont then there will be nothing left by the next election and it will all be sold and we will have no chamce of ever getting it back.<br />And meanwhile we have to listen to the greedy bastards whinging that anyone on over 150 grand has to pay 50 percent tax.Well we know a lot of people in this bracket will have tax limitation plans in place so not all of them will pay that and i mean come on if they dont like it some of the even higher paid will leave....no they wont its bullshit. <br />Lets not kid ourselves about RED ED and Labour amarching in tio save the country cos Ed has proved he doesnt give a fuck about any of us by his recent antics....oh i toooo ill to attend a protest on the NHS with the plebs but i can rode in a Roller and go see me mates football team play.WEll ED get in the van with the rest of em and F***k Right Off mate.<br />DO we not get it yet...HAVE WE HAD ENOUGH YET. We tried it one way it hasnt worked so there is only one way left and thats to get down to London and bloody tell em ccos if we dont do it soon it will be TOO LATE.<br />There is nothing to lose now...NOTHING and evrything to gain.ENOUGH IS ENOUGHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-30540044306879000052012-03-18T23:24:57.776+00:002012-03-18T23:24:57.776+00:00So gripping but so true... The asylums will reopen...So gripping but so true... The asylums will reopen soon and we will be taken in in droves to work as in the workhouse and sleep in bunks ! xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-55194121559309457982012-03-18T21:53:55.173+00:002012-03-18T21:53:55.173+00:00OMG. Its happening isn't it? Right before our ...OMG. Its happening isn't it? Right before our eyes. <br />Who can stop it?<br /><br />Who has the strength and power to fight for us?<br /><br />Anyone?<br /><br />God help us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-33501594629275050432012-03-18T20:39:43.128+00:002012-03-18T20:39:43.128+00:00Brilliant, as always, but especially today. I live...Brilliant, as always, but especially today. I live like that and I hate every minute of it I'd give anything to be my old self and be busy, financially safe and independant and seen as socially worthy especially.. I'm amazed there is anyone who really believes anyone who is seriously ill is 'lazy' it boggles my mind and also makes me doubt karma, frankly. It's frightening times.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09741788737588200682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-3972368034003612682012-03-18T19:31:42.085+00:002012-03-18T19:31:42.085+00:00You have a real writing ability Sue and an imagina...You have a real writing ability Sue and an imagination and the ability to use words to really grip the reader. Why not follow JK Rowling and use your talents to benefit yourself, instead of wearing yourself down trying to change something which cannot be changed because it really cannot be afforded.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-39085321044264824322012-03-18T19:23:38.092+00:002012-03-18T19:23:38.092+00:00Yes you muppet, if that had happened, lets say at ...Yes you muppet, if that had happened, lets say at the GE 2 years ago, by now, we would have some multi millionaires & some clamouring for more benefits again.Face it some people are entrepreneurial & some are spendthifts.<br /><br />And if you want to spend your life on the dole, don't be surprised when I object to my tax being used to support lazy bums like you. Be creative by all means but do it whilst you support yourself.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-60057668132512108422012-03-18T18:23:18.903+00:002012-03-18T18:23:18.903+00:00will it end, good question my best answer no it wo...will it end, good question my best answer no it wont even with a labour govt in place you see they have set thier stall out and will use the savings to try and win nxt election but they wont and labour will not change anything at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-4322579292115773482012-03-18T17:36:17.378+00:002012-03-18T17:36:17.378+00:00Chillingly Orwelian, surreal, scary, could it be t...Chillingly Orwelian, surreal, scary, could it be the future. You bet your ass it can.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01838116125578077154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-32831210971380282252012-03-18T17:04:03.901+00:002012-03-18T17:04:03.901+00:00This really got to me, I was someone who am ashame...This really got to me, I was someone who am ashamed to say didn't listen at first to being told over & over this was happening until I took proper notice at Christmas. I will speak too Sue & thank you & all, so much for what you did & do now to get this heard. Brilliant blog, so sad & scary it's a road we are now on. Hang on in there all. Hope you have a nice Mothers Day.Chris Hubbardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-54663105547709277402012-03-18T16:13:01.301+00:002012-03-18T16:13:01.301+00:00A chilling tale of all the things that can happen....A chilling tale of all the things that can happen... I have linked it to my blog (and added my own observations) I have made it clear that you own the copyright.Lesneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10139947264337493961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-31644273716142217822012-03-18T16:11:04.278+00:002012-03-18T16:11:04.278+00:00I have been telling people "stories" lik...I have been telling people "stories" like this for ages, and they all tut tut them and say no, cant be happening. Or now with links they will say oh well it might happen once, they dont know that is happening more and more and is becoming the norm.<br /><br />Remember the times when you got sick and people were sympathetic, you were giving support via benefits and as much in social care other servies to make your life as bearable as possible. Now we all feel on the densive re sickness, made to feel bad for getting any money and have to battle and fight to get anything while at the same time coping with feeling really ill.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com