A reasonable proposition/attack on the vulnerable.

[margaret*e]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31464897

David Cameron has commissioned a health adviser to review whether people with obesity, alcohol or drug problems should have benefits cut if they refuse treatment to make them fit for work.

[bankhaunter]

In January, Inside Housing ran an online story reporting the findings of a survey by the Methodist Church that a hundred people a day with mental health problems are getting their benefits sanctioned by the Department for Work and Pensions.

I think it is well known amongst those who pay attention to such things that claimants with learning difficulties are sitting ducks for sanctions but what can you expect from a system where attending an interview is considered more important than actually going to the job you have just acquired.

But it isn’t just the lack of sympathy for those with mental health problems that concerns me. It is that, for a significant number of fit people, we are actually creating psychological problems.

A ‘serves them right’ attitude underpins this. These are the hallmarks of a society without pity and without understanding. Our society. Has this state-sponsored cruelty brought down the benefits bill? Not so far as I am aware.

It has probably increased the total benefit bill, what one department may have saved becomes extra cost for another such as the NHS for example.

It's a bit like the man who decides to turn his central heating off to cut down his gas bill and then has to use electric fires to heat his home, it may cost him more but he did achieve his, somewhat narrow minded,object.

Have you seen this?

Scottish Unemployed Workers Network activist Tony Cox was arrested on 29th January after Arbroath Jobcentre management called police to stop him representing a vulnerable jobseeker

The DWP clearly state “Claimants accessing Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits and services can have someone to accompany them to act on their behalf…”

http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?p=4158

[papko]

pko How can someone from outside the SE, who is unemployed. Move there to take up the new Jobs, that have been created, because that is the only place where Jobs have been created. Greater Londons population has jumped up by well over a million. The Capital can't house the People they have, right now. So where are they, going to house the say 4 million extra people, who would have to head South, for jobs. (2 adults & 2 kids) They have no chance in hell of buying and certainly can't afford to rent in the Capital, Just think of the rise in Housing benefit costs, if rented accommodation were available. Then think of the extra cost of 'in Work' benefits, because they are paid at a higher in London when they did find a Job

They can do what I did , get on a bike and pedal , and ask for a job , and dont stop till you get one , take a sleeping bag and sleep rough at night , making temporary shelters , out of branches and cardboard boxes 

 How do you imagine the 80k East  Europeans , who  fin d work in Scotland every year manage ? they seek work on farms and are accomdated there , or they find work on building sites and Hotels etc 

 Look at Dundee , "YES city ", the highest foodbank use in Scotland , yet contractors working on the new developments and Schools , are advertising in Poland for unskilled labour !

 Now obvioulsy ther eis no Dundonaina male using a food bank whilst a job on a building site is vacant 

 But truth to tell , they are , they would sooner beg borrow or steal , than work , better to plead poverty and inadequacy , and exist as a waster , than earn a living by the sweat of yoru brow .

 Yes there is a lot of positive people in Dundee ,,  and they are ALL immigrants