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Incapacity benefit fraud - is it really this common?

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CountessDracula · 29/09/2006 12:31

Following on from the DSS housing thread I really can't believe that people who are capable of work sit on their arses on incapacity benefit for years and years with no review or attempt to get them into work.

Is this true?

If so it is bloody outrageous

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Nemo1977 · 29/09/2006 14:45

thats not on fairyjay.
I would work if I could find someone who would understand my MH issues and also when I am having probs give me the time off without penalising me for it.

fairyjay · 29/09/2006 15:08

I know it's not on Nemo - and he's in my family!
Odd, because his Dad is in his 70's and still works at B & Q - you'd think some of the work ethic would have been inherited!

nailpolish · 29/09/2006 15:09

omg, 730 am!

diddums

divastrop · 29/09/2006 15:17

nemo,u have to have paid enough NI to get actual IB,but if ur not entitled to IB u can still get income support.thats how those who have never worked manage it.
it is very hard to get on the sick nowadays,and it will be even harder when all the new reforms are brought in.
it p***es me off when people who have no idea what they are talking about pass judgement on others.its blatant snobbery.i am refering to one poster in particular

nailpolish · 29/09/2006 15:20

you cant say taht diva with out naming the person

go on

Uwila · 29/09/2006 15:21

I don't think this is about people with genuine medical conditions. It is about people who get money from the state when they are capable of working (possibly requiring a career change) but choose not to simply because they can't be bothered.

THAT is the problem. These people are lazy and they are doing neither society nor themselves any good.

Uwila · 29/09/2006 15:27

Incidentally I know nothing about MH or RSI (or any of the other conditions noted here) so I am not passing judgement on you guys. I mean people like Nutty's x-husband (BUT NOT NUTTY).

Uwila · 29/09/2006 15:30

REPORT BENEFIT FRAUD HERE

2shoes · 29/09/2006 15:32

why is it that as soon as dh is out of work (through no fault of his he couldn't be trying harder to get a start) these threads start.....I am getting paranoid.
as for incapacity benefit. dh was on it for a month when he had 2 ops on his hand he was genuine. But have to say it wasn't hard to get as we didn't even have to fill in forms it was all done over the phone.
can't see the point of these threads they only upset people who are genuine.

divastrop · 29/09/2006 16:28

sorry,i was referring to yomama's comment about if u can have babies then u can work.it made me angry.

WigWamBam · 29/09/2006 16:34

Diva, the only postings Yomama has made are the two on this thread, so my guess is that she is a namechanger who doesn't have the guts to say what she thinks under her real name. Which rather invalidates her opinion, as far as I am concerned; if she was confident that she was right then she wouldn't need to change her name to post her thoughts. She's not worth you getting angry.

divastrop · 29/09/2006 16:37

ok WWB i will take my raging pregnancy hormones back to the safety of the pregancy and ante-natal threads

nailpolish · 29/09/2006 16:38

i agree diva, dont let it get to you it was a RIDICULOUS comment, forget it

misdee · 29/09/2006 16:50

Incapcity benefit keep writing to dh asking him to go for reassessment. a quick phone call sorts them out, then they dont bother us for months.

WigWamBam · 29/09/2006 16:55

No, diva ... you don't have to go anywhere! And there's no need to either

Mercy · 29/09/2006 17:03

How awful for you WWB. I believe I was in the early stages of RSI when I left work to have dd. It took nearly 2 years for the aches and pains to go away (still come back occasionally - always the same place).

And how appalling that you got nasty emails.

Perigrine · 29/09/2006 17:06

NP - your DH's uncle didn't work in the Dundee office by any chance!?!

misdee · 29/09/2006 17:10

wwb, i remember one snipey you got on here about your RSi iwas

i suffer back, neck sholder problems, right down to aching fingers and hands. mine is from a neck injury when i was 18, which sent my muscles into spasm, and they go 'off' every few months and leave me drained and unable to do anything more than get out of bed. i have a GP's appointment in a fortnight as i am so fed up of it now, that i want to go back on the anti-inflamatries and strong painkillers as paracetamol doesnt touch it.

but i want to work so much (obv when dh is better), but would i have to declare all this when applying for jobs? would something that is an on-going problem count against me?

nailpolish · 29/09/2006 17:13

perigrine, no, it was Glasgow, why do you ask? have you encountered someone like him in Dundee

PcCOD · 29/09/2006 17:14

yes
we have laods of them in court

WigWamBam · 29/09/2006 17:17

I've had a couple of comments on here about it, misdee ... oddly enough no-one has ever commented on the thread, but people have gone onto other threads to make bitchy comments about it. I did wonder at the time if the emails were from one of the people who made the snipey comment but they were too gutless to leave their name.

I'm amazed beyond belief that given Peter's problems you should be getting letters asking for him to go for a review. The medicals are demeaning enough without being expected to go for one in Peter's condition.

misdee · 29/09/2006 17:19

i know. i just call them and say 'look at your notes, waiting for a heart transplant and is on an artificial hearty, he wont be attending, and i wont be filling out these forms again' they usually agree staight away and leave us alone.

FioFio · 29/09/2006 17:20

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misdee · 29/09/2006 17:21

peter gets DLA as well. IB is when you cant work for whatever reason ,you can claim DLA and work.

FioFio · 29/09/2006 17:23

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