Forced to work

Star12
Star12 Online Community Member Posts: 11 Listener
in Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Therese coffey is going to make people work in the esa support group including myself I'm not happy I won't cope with a normal job can't even cope with myself this inhume 

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  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    Hi,
    That's the first i've heard of this. Those that are in the Support Group do not have to look for work or prepare to look for work. Can you provide a link as proof to this please?
  • Star12
    Star12 Online Community Member Posts: 11 Listener
    It is you look on the Internet it was on the news 
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    edited October 2021
    Where's the link as proof? Without a link as proof it is your opinion and not a fact.
  • Star12
    Star12 Online Community Member Posts: 11 Listener
    Look on. The intrenet therese coffey getting people on esa to work 
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,454 Championing
    Welcome to the community @Star12 :) 

    Was it an article like this one from the Mirror that you'd read? If so, please try not to worry. From reading the article, there don't appear to be any plans in place to force people in the Support Group into employment. It seems as though Therese Coffey was talking more broadly about her thoughts on 'encouraging' unemployed disabled people to enter employment, rather than announcing a new policy. Has that put your mind at ease a little? 
    can't even cope with myself
    I was also just wondering what you meant by this? Have you been finding things difficult recently?
  • Star12
    Star12 Online Community Member Posts: 11 Listener
    It is from the mirror yes
  • Star12
    Star12 Online Community Member Posts: 11 Listener
    Not really if she trying to encourage people and she will bring that plan I to place soon 
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    Ah yes, in the "daily mirror" i'll say no more then. The answer to this is don't believe everything you read in a newspaper...
  • calcotti
    calcotti Online Community Member Posts: 10,001 Championing
    edited October 2021
    Tori_Scope said:..It seems as though Therese Coffey was talking more broadly about her thoughts on 'encouraging' unemployed disabled people to enter employment, rather than announcing a new policy. 
    Which is a longstanding stated policy of providing support for disabled people to move into employment. Supporting people, encouraging people or requiring people are completely different things.
  • Star12
    Star12 Online Community Member Posts: 11 Listener
    What my mp said but it doesent mean that the won't do it sometime in the future 
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    It's already been said, that it's not going to happen.

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