The paper states claimants of the Employment Support Allowance receiving weekly allowances up to £102.15 are not being motivated into employment.
Proposed cuts to the ESA are part of the £12billion welfare cuts planned by the Conservatives.
Charities executives have expressed their concerns against the cuts. Paul Farmer from Mind said: “If these proposals go ahead they would cause significant additional pain for vulnerable people, with very limited gain. It’s insulting to suggest people living with illness or disability would be more likely to return to work if their benefits were cut.
“Most people with mental health problems want to work, but face significant barriers as a result of the impact of their condition and the stigma and discrimination they often face from employers.”
Chairman of the Disability Benefits Consortium, Rob Holland added: : “This benefit is specifically there to provide support for those disabled people assessed as being able to move towards work.
“Cutting benefits to the bare minimum will prevent people seeking work effectively.”
Despite the Department for Work and Pensions refusing to comment Cameron’s spokeswoman, Helen Bower admitted the documents were genuine.
Labour’s Shadow Minister for the Disabled, Katie Green said: “This could drive people to foodbanks. Once again it’s disabled people being asked to pay the price for the Government’s failures.”
Lib Dem’s work and pension’s spokesman, Lord German added: “Threats to strip away ESA from thousands of sick and disabled people is a clear sign of the nasty party shifting up a gear.
“The Conservatives are dead set on balancing the books on the backs of the vulnerable and poor.”
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I have a number of medical conditions my main one doesn’t even get a mention on the list of conditions the DWP use, it is known under 2 names HHT and another beginning with O and having just looked cannot find any mention of it under either letter. It’s no wonder the HP’s say they have never heard of it or don’t know what it is at the assessments I have had, ESA and PIP. I have never pushed them so far when I give them a list of my conditions but fully intend too from now on, if they cannot explain to me the condition and its side effects, in brief, in a recorded assessment, then how is that person fit to assess my fitness to work.
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Succinctly, they’re not but, then you must bear in mind that the sort of “healthcare professionals” employed as “assessors” have all been specially trained to downplay the severity of conditions. Thus, if you tell them you suffer from nosebleeds once or twice a week, that will be recorded as once or twice a month, or simply as “sometimes”. If you complain about anaemia, they’ll record that as “feeling a bit run down”, and so on. They have been indoctrinated with the silly idea that sick people exaggerate their conditions to garner sympathy so, to ensure what the disability deniers consider to be “accuracy”, the assessors are taught to tell lies!
The tom-fool idea that all people with illness or a disability exaggerate their symptoms to get support and sympathy from others was started by that latter-day quack Mansel Aylward, who misused the holistic approach that was slowly gaining support to come up with his own and quite addled Bio-Psycho-Social model of disease. This idiotic and patently false concept is still what “guides” the ever sillier nonsenses from the DWP and it will probably persist, at least until the BMA and/or the GMC decides to put an end to it and to START LISTENING TO THE PATIENT ONCE MORE.
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That’s why I’ve started to put in SAR’s as soon as I have had an assessment, I don’t wait for the results, I did this for my PIP assessment, but had to wait for the paper based result for my three ESA assessments, you should always request they write down your answers verbatim that way, with a covert recording, and their recording for ESA you can say you have A XX times a week and the HP wrote it as few times a month and unless they correct this you intend to bring charges of fraud against the HP and the DWP as a willing accessory after the fact.
I always send SAR’s the moment I get back from assessments, the only one so far has been my PIP assessment last year.
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The Tories aren’t just the Nasty Party.
They’re the new Nazi Party!
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