Disability means testing

Beamoody

I think it's wrong to means test the disabled. It's hard enough to get disability in the first place, we didn't get any help during covid or after. 
If you need a car and you don't get disability for long enough you have to buy one and run it yourself. So you need to save for another car at some stage. The same with bathroom adaptations, you pay for it yourself, if you have savings, prescription, dental and glasses, if you have savings you pay for them yourself. So really it's already means tested. So what are the government really trying to say. If you are disabled but have savings, all of a sudden you become un disabled, arms, legs grow back and all health conditions suddenly disappear. If people have that much money, they wouldn't put up with a the negative hassle you have to go through to get disability in the first place. 
The government don't see all the unpaid careers that work full time and then come home and care for someone and the children that do the same. 
Disability isn't the golden fleece of living. 

poppy123456

There's another couple of threads here related to the same thing, this is one of them. https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/97741/means-testing-disability-benefits#latest

Beamoody

We should get all the MP's to get this stopped and look at all the other money that gets wasted, get them to protect our human rights, do they think anyone wants to be disabled. Sometimes it's just out of our hands. 1.8 billion disabled people in the UK, how many more mental health worries do we need, there's been enough suicides over this already, all those poor families losing loved ones and if this goes through God knows how many more. 

calcotti

Beamoody said:

We should get all the MP's to get this stopped 

There's nothing to stop - nothing has been started. 

Cartini

Beamoody said:

I think it's wrong to means test the disabled. It's hard enough to get disability in the first place, we didn't get any help during covid or after. 
If you need a car and you don't get disability for long enough you have to buy one and run it yourself. So you need to save for another car at some stage. The same with bathroom adaptations, you pay for it yourself, if you have savings, prescription, dental and glasses, if you have savings you pay for them yourself. So really it's already means tested. So what are the government really trying to say. If you are disabled but have savings, all of a sudden you become un disabled, arms, legs grow back and all health conditions suddenly disappear. If people have that much money, they wouldn't put up with a the negative hassle you have to go through to get disability in the first place. 
The government don't see all the unpaid careers that work full time and then come home and care for someone and the children that do the same. 
Disability isn't the golden fleece of living. 

Hi,

You, and many others, are paying far too much attention to "sensationalistic journalism".  There`s no point worrying about something that may never happen.

Beamoody

I really do hope your right, I put my bit on with the green paper

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