Does anyone elsee agree with the benefit cuts?

[mrsruffallo]

Because I do. They make sense to me. Reward the workers, esp. those in low paid employment, and make it harder to be better off unemployed than working. If ConDem also taxed the rich in an appropriate mnner, I would be very happy.

nah no need there going to do that under pip dont you now thouands of wheelchair users going to be cured at tick of a pen .

Hmm. Cheese. Not sure I understand that.

DLA is paid to those who don't want to work, right?

*Housing
Transport
Childcare

are the reasons for the massive benefit bill*

I had a comment on my blog yesterday from city lawyer who is considering not going back to work after she has her second child because childcare for two young children would cost £2.5k a month.

Because, we don't really need that extra £49milllion in corporation tax receipts, do we? (And that's on top of the £180 million tax paid in the previous year). Oh, and doesn't include tax from VAT on UK sales and income tax from Rolls Royce employees....

Yes, that is jolly nice to have that money, but it does kind of pale in comparison to the massive profits that are going to the German owners, BMW.

"DLA is paid to those who don't want to work"

I am banging my head on my desk.

Can you hear it?

I don't want to work. I want DLA and a plasma telly please. And a pack of fags.

yellow - you did get that Mme was being ironic..?

yellow
I was being ironic. Sorry, thought that my views were well known.

Sorry, I don't pay any attention to who's posting and have no idea who has which views.

I apologise for my irony failure.

I should have added or a but never quite sure which of those conveys [irony]

did the op go out?
she is very quiet

A very close family member has happily played the system and gets DLA and higher rate DLA and I know of plenty of other relatives who do the same, so my experience is first hand, while I wont go into exact detail once you have a bit of inside knowledge, people to guide you through the pitfalls, it's not so hard to do. You may have a bit of form filling but this can be overcome by taking it to a benefits adviser in a high street solicitors. While nobody denies DLA is there to help disabled people, maybe it's the definition and criteria for determining disabled people that warrants closer scrutiny, like everything else the devil is in the detail

Just because some of us suggest it can be open to abuse, doesn't mean we dont appreciate it's intended purpose and to accuse us of being thick or ranty Daily mail readers is unjust

I have applied for DLA year on year with help from advisers. Despite a personality disorder, depression and anxiety, I never get it. Fair enough, I just apply again.

Maybe your rellies could help me, baking addict?

You know, the number of people on here who know someone who's faking disabled, I'm surprised anyone in the country ISN'T receiving it.

She's probably still reading my posts sevenfold

Bakingaddict, nobody is saying fraud doesn't go on....we all know it does. But the fact remains the fraud rate is only 0.5 %.....the government are wanting to chop 20% of claims.

Also many people get DLA confused with incapacity benefit, which is much easier to claim and has a higher fraud rate.

maybe you wouldn't find it quite so great if your severely disabled childs care package had been cut and you had had to give up PAID employment to care for them It has put me in an incredibly vulnerable position, one which if i were not married (or ever become unmarried) the state will have to support me and my family FULLY. Housing, the lot.

b anking addict now to play the sytem so must been the GP .Hopital Dr maybe a physio becuase trust me they dont take just what is ona orm no matter how well you word it they check

Very simple wording on mine how far can you walk , my reply I can not walk at all due to a spinal cord injury im a parpalegic .backed up by hopital consultant letter stating this and yet they still checked on it

To get higher rate you'd need quite serious supporting evidence so it's not just a matter of going to a benefits adviser..is this family member also conning a hospital consultant or something?

Why do these threads always come back to DLA? Clearly that shouldn't be cut, and isolated cases of fraud are NOT why they're cutting it.

There are benefits that cost us a lot more, but I don't believe they should be cut either.

Why is it that the poor are being targeted AGAIN? Why not follow up tax evasion instead?

or so great when your informed your going get no moblity help becuase teh nhs was genrours to give you a wheelchair even though wheelchair is not fit for purpose( under nhs rules they only need you to be mobile inside the house)

so many wheelchair users use DLA to buy a decent wheelchair , to use the few and far accessibile taxis .Becuase buses ar enot all accessibile becuase we can not get a train without 24 hrs notice , becuase we can not drive a normal car so often people exchange for adapted car which then means then can get to WORK

I would like all the people who don't think my daughter should get dla and that i shouldn't get carers allowance to have my child for me for a few hours and then see what they thought of the situation It's a walk in the park, it really is

yep gincourt .Im willing to trade them mine ands3 disablites for life and they can have the DLA to

I think there is a massive muddle in people's minds about DLA and the old "going on the sick" mentality from years ago. My impression was that DLA was already difficult to claim so bakingaddicts benefit advisers in the solicitors must be doing better job of helping people than we are at the CAB.

Has mrsruffalo abandoned her thread? She didn't hang around long, as predicted!!

funny that

Goodness me its a bit mad in mumsnet world at the moment.