Channel 4 Dispatches - Britain’s Benefits Scandal 2nd dec (trigger warning topic)
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There are numerous episodes available on You Tube. I don't know if the current one we are discussing is.
I am thinking about watching the forgotten pensioners. That could be us one day, isn't that a scary thought!!! Maybe I need to wait until I feel happier!!!
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After watching the window cleaner, (in the 48 billion benefits deceitful content from channel 4) saying he learned from tik tok, he can claim PIP/LCWRA because he had knee pain and depression and then he literally ran up the ladder 🤣 I was in so much shock. Then he complained his son gets lots of money but he can't! Like it's a game.
I have a feeling these stupid people on tik tok and youtube are convincing everyone who has something wrong with them, even if it doesn't limit them from doing any day to day activities to submit applications. I laughed at him running up the damn ladder but it really isn't funny because it's going to cause so many problems for the people who actually need help.
What the hell is wrong with these people? They are treating it like it's a joke. It must be the able bodied who are listening to tik tok and youtubers but they have their health, so don't actually realise there are REAL PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ARE REALLY SUFFERING AND STRUGGLING TO GET HELP.
I want to say in advance, I am sorry to everyone who is disabled or ill and need extra financial support. If things get worse it's probably because of these idiots making videos telling everyone to going and claim money they are not entitled to like it's a fun game.
It's not fun for people who are actually disabled, it's not funny and it's definitely not a game that you play with the DWP. 2024 fraudulent claims for PIP was 0%. This will actually create statistics of fraudulent claims now!
Thankful to have scope so we can share with others about what's going on.
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Defenitely making a report. I don't usually let things get to me so much but I spent days after watching it with it replaying over and over in my mind especially the comment section with people saying all kinds stupid things after watching it. They make comments and apply it to everyone who is getting financial help not even a few people but everyone.
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I sometimes think about older people as well, they seem to just get pushed to the side and forgotten about, ignored, have their finances cut or not the amount they get increase and they are not valued. Sounds familiar? Just like people with disabilities 😄 the same old strategies. I will look for it but like you wait till I am in a good space. For a leading westernised country, we sure have not learned equality and to create a fair non-judgemental society, have we?
Some are still in the dark ages with their thinking.
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The old man in tears? I wasn't laughing 😞
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I have actually seen this when it was shown last year. The disgusting thing is this generation has paid the most tax. I think they had to pay into graduated schemes or something like that.
Looking more into this, those of us on benefits with no other income are all living in poverty, the benefits are below the minimum standards required to live.
So it's no wonder people are struggling and people have issues.
Sorry don't mean to go ot.
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The decision on how much to spend on disabled people was made a long time ago. Journalists use their dishonest tactics to explain why such cost reductions are necessary. They are paid very generously for this.
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The update on the two people featured from 2023 is that both were actually entitled to more benefit. They didn't need to be struggling as they were.
I have said it before and I will say it again. It should be an automatic letter to apply for a benefit if you are entitled to it. Especially if you are retired and you have already paid NI and tax. Thousands go unclaimed every year.
When I get the migration letter and apply for UC, esa will know to stop my money, the council will know there has been a change. It's on computer. So they do communicate.
The old, ill, disabled etc cannot be expected to know about a benefit that doesn't exist yet but they will be allowed to claim.
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Everything seems to be like that, unfortunately.
It's one of the frustrations for me because you get all those stereotyped statements about autistic folk only able to see things in black and white, yet here we are seeing all the shades of grey as they apply to our and other people's lives, meanwhile the media…I agree that the alcoholic guy would need to want help first. But it's just sad to me that there doesn't seem to be a pathway for him to ask for it or get it alongside the benefit support.
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however some autistic people like me only see black and white. Like people say and I will say autistic people are all different and that's why the spectrum is so big.
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The government has it black and white currently though, can work can't work. There needs to be the grey middle area for those who are unfit but want to try and see if they can. I am sure I could get back into volunteering, I won't be fired for the bad days.
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That's been mentioned in a couple of TV interviews @whistles they want to stop the prospect of trying to work being so terrifying. So hopefully, people will be able to give work a go and if the health issues do get in the way, they'll still have their hard fought for benefits there for them if they need them.
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People are either a source of money or a source of expenditure for the government. Do not think that the computer has feelings, at best it is an imitation. The Conservatives "counted" and Labor agreed that too much money was being spent on pensioners and the disabled. They are afraid to tell them directly, so they launched hate propaganda.
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