One of the Government’s ideas for saving money has been to identify those claiming sickness benefits who are actually perfectly capable of working.
For some it could be a question of needing some extra help. But for others, the suspicion being quite a lot, they were scroungers. On the fiddle. Defrauding the system. People who were entirely capable of working but chose not to - or chose to work in the black economy while claiming Employment and Support Allowance.
There are over 2.5 million people claiming ESA - the number on Job Seekers Allowance (the dole) is 1.5 million. Those who claim ESA rather than JSA get an extra £1,000 a year.
Those suspicions are confirmed by figures released today on Work Capability Assessment. These were checks made to see if those claiming the benefit were genuinely unfit for work.
For a start 36 per cent of people were classed as ‘claim closed before assessment complete.’ Some of these will have simply been people who had a genuine short term illness and happened to recover at just the time of the assessment. But there will also have been many scroungers who decided the game was up.
Of those who went ahead with assessment, 65 per cent were judged fit to work. Most of them accepted the decision and of those who appealed most had their appeal turned down.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...00-benefits-cheats-scale-workshy-Britain.html
Edit(thanks to custard)
Whilst I agree the scroungers must be stopped I'm sure some genuine people will be effected to.
It seems to me that they move the goals every year to suit how much money they have spare.
This year there's a bit of a squeeze, the goals are sitting on the center line.
For some it could be a question of needing some extra help. But for others, the suspicion being quite a lot, they were scroungers. On the fiddle. Defrauding the system. People who were entirely capable of working but chose not to - or chose to work in the black economy while claiming Employment and Support Allowance.
There are over 2.5 million people claiming ESA - the number on Job Seekers Allowance (the dole) is 1.5 million. Those who claim ESA rather than JSA get an extra £1,000 a year.
Those suspicions are confirmed by figures released today on Work Capability Assessment. These were checks made to see if those claiming the benefit were genuinely unfit for work.
For a start 36 per cent of people were classed as ‘claim closed before assessment complete.’ Some of these will have simply been people who had a genuine short term illness and happened to recover at just the time of the assessment. But there will also have been many scroungers who decided the game was up.
Of those who went ahead with assessment, 65 per cent were judged fit to work. Most of them accepted the decision and of those who appealed most had their appeal turned down.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...00-benefits-cheats-scale-workshy-Britain.html
Edit(thanks to custard)
Whilst I agree the scroungers must be stopped I'm sure some genuine people will be effected to.
It seems to me that they move the goals every year to suit how much money they have spare.
This year there's a bit of a squeeze, the goals are sitting on the center line.
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