Is the Disability Benefit department feeling ok?
Every benefit department in England is forever thinking up schemes to shorten their lists, and the disability benefit department recently joined in the fun when the government announced plans to replace Incapacity Benefit with Employment Support Allowance. So why, now that someone clims to have been miraculously cured of her disabilities, and has the decency to want to stop her disability benefits, did they need her to climb a mountain of paperwork first?
True, “It can’t be often that a government department gets a complaint about unwanted cash,” As her husband sensibly points out, but surely when they do, they can find something useful to spend it on?
My personal list is so endless that it will take up a post in itself! Permanent Disability Living Allowance payrise, anyone? Yes please!
The fact that her husband is a priest and she claims to have been cured by six years of prayer would have made me think twice about the truth of the whole thing if they hadn’t both had so much decency.
I, for one, thank them for their decency. Many others might have kept the money. I’m sure the government secretly agrees, even if they do claim that the computer doesn’t have a button for miracles! I hope they use the money they’ve saved here for at least one of the things on the endless list the country needs done…
Same Difference 