Sickness benefit reform to continue - Duncan Smith

LEAVE US ALONE TO GET BETTER

I think the conservative government are taking away our liberties with their approach. I am currently ill and I have been on incapacity benefit - and I still need it. I just want to be left alone to get better and get a job that I 'really' want to do. David Cameron is trying to force people off sickness benefit and force them to do any old job - just so that he can get people off sickness benefit. What rubbish is that..? So, if you are a highly skilled professional, then it means you've got to work in a factory or clean toilets..? I am highly educated and skilled, but my time off work will make it hard to get the work I used to do - because people are just prejudiced and bigoted in the market that I am trained in. What is David Cameron gonna do about that..? Does he think that people will suddenly walk into the jobs they want..? No, that's why he wants to just get people of sickness benefits and force them to do any job, just any excuse to get you off the benefits that you REALLY need. I am not a benefit sponger or scrounger......I have 2 university degrees and certifications and some experience....before I got ill with chronic depression. I don't need the crappy help of government to get a job, because I know what job and career I want to follow. The government schemes at job centres are always pathetic for graduates like me. They waste your time and are only suitable for illiterate and under-achievers, degenerates, etc. I don't need help to write a CV. What I need is real help to get the job that I want and know. I want a government official to sit with me in an job interview to check that I am not asked any prejudiced questions and unfair questions regarding my illness and time off work. I want the government to get me back to work with a personalised approach and real help. People like me should be getting paid compensation for the years I spent at university to better my life and provide to society. I think the UK is slowly becoming communist with this new conservative-liberal government. Forcing people into any work is what the communists did and that is happening now in the UK. What next...?

Posted by: Danny

Kick us while we're down then.

As a 'long term incapacity scrounger' for the past 20 years I have never stopped looking for ANY work within my limited capabilities. Fruitlessly, of course. So, from 2013 I will have to go before a panel of doctors who will doubtlessly be charged with finding me capable of some sort of work - whether there are any such vacancies available or not - so the government can put me on Jobseekers Allowance to save a few k per annum leaving me to struggle on whatever pittance I'm then 'entitled' to. Having worked in many industries, sometimes being the employer myself, I know full well that I wouldn't employ me in any of the positions for which I have the training and aptitude due to my inability to do any kind of work other than in short bursts with long stretches of resting between. Will the panels take this into account? Not on your nelly, they won't. Will they also take into account that by the time these panels start to meet that I will be 62/63? See above. Gggrrrr ... As has been pointed out elsewhere: Many people like me were originally 'signed off' due to degenerative diseases which just get worse over the years and often result in other complications which make us even less fit for any kind of work as time goes by. In my case my original Osteo-Arthrosis has also become:- Spinal Spondylosis Cervical Spondylosis Ankylosing Spondylosis Psoriatic Arthropathy Degenerative Cardiac Disease Congestive Cardiac Disease Hypertension Angina (According to my cardiac specialist I only have one cardiac artery working to any degree and if I have to go 'under the knife' again it will be to have a double or even triple cardiac bypass.) Oh, and Diabetes. Would YOU employ anyone with that lot? As I said; neither would I! Why should I be penalised to make up for the current economic slump caused by the profligate - not to say often underhand - dealings by the big banks when they are still paying out £billions in Performance Bonuses to workers who are still losing them money hand over fist?

Posted by: J. Forrest

Welfare Reform And People With Autism

please read and vote for my personal and related campaign about protecting people with autism and asd's and there carers from the welfare reform and getting kicked off the benefits which are a life line to us. It's on the new coalition governments Your Freedom Website where you can send ideas to the government for there consideration.. I have autism it took a lot of brain processing and stress to write this document and get the grammar correct as well. I don't think it's 100% grammatically correct but i think it is readable enough. http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/restoring-civil-liberties/benefit-reform-and-people-with-autism-and-asds

Posted by: Weaveintothewin2

Sickness benefit reform

I wounder if those who are imposing these reforms would be happy to go and find non existant work if they were too ill to work? The Goverment are the worst of the worst, not only do they create mass unemployment (coal mining jobs in the 80s) but they also open our borders to free loaders, ride on the gravy train with our money, tell lies, look at others to blame for their mistakes and brake promises. These so called cuts, we cant be that short of money to fund war, i wounder if these cuts will effect the PMs pension, ill bet not, so its okay for our pensions to be effected but not theirs, they must regard us as trash. They will learn.

Posted by: Chris