tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post7887071132918139619..comments2023-07-04T16:57:28.929+01:00Comments on Where's the Benefit?: DWP, The Dodgy Figures Come Home to RoostLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714918894319998184noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-80189435591527477442011-08-17T01:40:03.763+01:002011-08-17T01:40:03.763+01:00@DeusExmacintosh: Actually saw some stats the othe...@DeusExmacintosh: Actually saw some stats the other day (forget where), saying we're already past the peak of OAP as percentage of GDP and the affordability will get better as time goes by.DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-39138570993017520192011-08-15T17:13:35.829+01:002011-08-15T17:13:35.829+01:00Thanks, Bill Kruse - saved me some typing.Thanks, Bill Kruse - saved me some typing.Ron Graveshttp://ronsrants.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-6388441537741065542011-08-15T16:34:16.535+01:002011-08-15T16:34:16.535+01:00@ visually impaired:
We've known for over a d...@ visually impaired:<br /><br />We've known for over a decade now that the old-age pension is unsustainable... funny how nobody is calling for the abolition of THAT (yet).DeusExMacintoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02728119585120029111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-89641597838832693782011-08-15T16:11:19.107+01:002011-08-15T16:11:19.107+01:00@Visually Impaired: I disagree that DLA is unsusta...@Visually Impaired: I disagree that DLA is unsustainable, ditto for time-limiting ESA, it's simply convenient for DWP to label them as such, but they're actually fairly trivial sums in terms of the entire Government budget. If you look at the overall situation, then it is actually not having them that is unsustainable. <br /><br />The alternative to having DLA is disabled people being driven out of work because they can no longer have the vehicle they need to get to work when public transport is unsuitable, nor the funding to meet extra transport costs if they can, or having partners driven out of work because the care funding they need is no longer there. Doing away with DLA is incompatible with ensuring disabled people, or their partners, have the opportunity to work. Similarly the reality of time-limiting ESA will be to drive between 200,000 and 700,000 people, by DWP's own estimates, into needless poverty, with a predictable effect on other benefit bills.DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-74614625105345482962011-08-15T16:02:29.237+01:002011-08-15T16:02:29.237+01:00Can this be put right? Big question.
The one thi...Can this be put right? Big question. <br /><br />The one thing that could change things is if the Lords reject the Welfare Reform Bill, which IIRC would throw it back to the Commons for revision (been a while since the Lords remembered what they are there for). But even if we can persuade them to reject the WRB, there is still ESA and all the problems related to that to undo.<br /><br />One good thing to have come of the riots is that the LibDems seem to have remembered they had a backbone somewhere (hint, it's mounted over Cameron's fireplace with his other trophies), our best hope is separating them from the Conservatives, and one way that may come about is through the LibDem conference, which includes a comprehensively anti-ESA motion. As the LibDems are still bound to follow conference decisions, that should place them in an interesting position if it passes.<br /><br />On top of that there is still all the damage that has been done to our position in society by the tabloid attacks, that is likely to take years if not decades to fix - notice that while those of us in the know are having a sharp intake of breath at just what has been revealed, the tabloids are using precisely that same evidence as another excuse to attack us. There are a couple of ways we might take the fight to them, but it will still take decades in all likelihood to undo the damage to disabled people's position in society.DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-60654971308854798942011-08-15T12:46:59.982+01:002011-08-15T12:46:59.982+01:00The whole idea is DLA is unsustainable, But so is ...The whole idea is DLA is unsustainable, But so is the 120 Billion wasted in tax evasionVisually Impairedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01203797388170233857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-38290020509743037802011-08-15T10:04:41.763+01:002011-08-15T10:04:41.763+01:00The truth will out as they say... Keep digging coa...The truth will out as they say... Keep digging coalition it's your own grave after all...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-41227367238482744222011-08-15T09:52:13.742+01:002011-08-15T09:52:13.742+01:00Is there anythign that can be done to put this rig...Is there anythign that can be done to put this right though? As you said - The votes have been cast on the DLA?PIP thing and cannot be taken back. Conservative MPs are still spouting the 'If you are TRULY disabled you have nothign to worry aboutdo you' line - Like we are all making it up - Those of us who have specialists etc - THEIR word should be taken - Not ATOS who are nothign but scum ordered my Conservascum to say 99% of people are fine.<br /><br />This is our lives - This is no game - Conservascumn are playing games with our lives and I just pray that somebody can help us to keep DLA as it is and stop attacking us - As I for one feel like my future will be on the streets and I wont last long at all there!<br /><br />I am praying somebody can undo this dreadful damage they have done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-48565820423884695772011-08-15T08:38:45.547+01:002011-08-15T08:38:45.547+01:00I'm just passing on the news, it's people ...I'm just passing on the news, it's people like Declan Gaffney and Mason Dixon who have driven the DLA story, while UKSA's intervention on ESA seems to have been prompted by the Select Committee report. Interesting, and disappointing, to hear that you had tried to raise the issue without success, but now the Select Committee has criticised the same thing they feel able to push.DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-79625828848393994312011-08-15T08:25:50.389+01:002011-08-15T08:25:50.389+01:00Malfeasance in Public Office doesn't come clos...Malfeasance in Public Office doesn't come close, this is a full-blown criminal conspiracy the point of which is the plundering of hundreds of millions of pounds from the public purse. It has been ever since Dame Carol Black came out with all this 'Work is good for you' nonsense. That was all demonstrably phony and it's escalated from there. The DWP is now a rogue department run by criminals in public office entirely for their own anti-social benefits. A lot of people, Chris Grayling, Ian Duncan-Smith, Carol Black, James Purnell, all of them should be in the dock explaining their parts in what's been going on.<br /><br />BBBill Krusehttp://www.economania.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-63222976685760343252011-08-15T07:18:03.410+01:002011-08-15T07:18:03.410+01:00Thank you for this.
I wrote to the Statistics Auth...Thank you for this.<br />I wrote to the Statistics Authority earlier this year, complaining about these DWP statistics; only to be told they could not take action as the statistics I quoted were from a research analysis.<br /><br />I'm glad they finally took action!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com