Channel 4 Dispatches - Britain’s Benefits Scandal 2nd dec (trigger warning topic)

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  • whistles
    whistles Community Member Posts: 2,051 Championing

    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.

  • egister
    egister Posts: 1,102 Pioneering

    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.

  • whistles
    whistles Community Member Posts: 2,051 Championing

    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.

  • Amaya_Ringo
    Amaya_Ringo Community Member Posts: 408 Championing

    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.

    I

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,450 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/952152#Comment_952152

    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.

  • whistles
    whistles Community Member Posts: 2,051 Championing

    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.

  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,373 Championing

    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.

  • egister
    egister Posts: 1,102 Pioneering 
    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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