Yeah - and it's about to get a lot worse, isn't it? I've been hanging out on a bunch of mental health blogs, and there's a lot of fear. Manic-depressives are scared they'll be assessed during a manic episode, and people are talking about how their doctor, their psychiatrist and their CPN all said they couldn't work but then some random DSS guy behind a desk decided they were fine and denied Incapacity Benefit.
I'm pretty much having a panic attack before work every day, and every time I have to talk to my evil boss. I can only work part-time, and so I don't qualify for tax credits, either. And like nilchance, I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm well enough to work, sort of. I think the deliberate fraud rate is estimated at something like 2% over here. There was a scandal about how calls to the government's Incapacity Benefit hotline were going completely unanswered, because of course disabled people have the energy to keep trying to get through. And the government's response? Penalise 'em some more! They're probably scrounging anyway!
Let's storm the Houses of Parliament. Wheelchair-users can run the bastards over. People with sticks can hit them. I'm agoraphobic; I'll hyperventilate and puke at them.
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Date: 2008-05-28 04:30 pm (UTC)I'm pretty much having a panic attack before work every day, and every time I have to talk to my evil boss. I can only work part-time, and so I don't qualify for tax credits, either. And like
Let's storm the Houses of Parliament. Wheelchair-users can run the bastards over. People with sticks can hit them. I'm agoraphobic; I'll hyperventilate and puke at them.