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When benefits and food banks just ain’t enough

They also have offices that need £26m spent on them! Seems the Daily Mail were on the case.They have several items about them.

The Motability scheme providing cars for the disabled has lavished £26million on refurbishing its offices, it emerged yesterday.Bosses sanctioned the installation of chrome fittings, art displays and stone vases at the taxpayer-funded company.
Motability splurged £26million on office spruce up | Daily Mail Online


Great idea. If they did it to piss the mail and the express readers off They’ve my full support. Miserable bastards the lot of them .
 
You lost me at the Mail.
That’s the only fun we get these days. Go shopping, park in the disabled bay. The dame gets out, bounces all round the car, unloads bags, swings off the tailgate. You can almost hear the gnashing of teeth.

She goes down to get a shopping trolley, by this stage ‘disgusted of cherryvalley’ are on their way across to give her a piece of their mind.

Some years ago at 'Morrisons' I saw a woman reprimand a young teenage fellow for parking in a 'disabled' parking space. He got down and did ten press-ups, then went running in to get his shopping.
 
Some years ago at 'Morrisons' I saw a woman reprimand a young teenage fellow for parking in a 'disabled' parking space. He got down and did ten press-ups, then went running in to get his shopping.


Now he was lucky, there are places he would have got a boot in the head on the way back up.


Edit. One parked up behind us in a pedestrian zone, one of those sporty fords, blue card on the dash and he sprinted through two lanes of traffic to the far side of the road.
Unfortunately for him, there were two policemen waiting for him when he jogged back to the car.
 
Stop all cash benefits and give the idle sods vouchers for Lidl and Aldi , any one found selling them to lose the hand out for six months minimum ,,, or am I being too soft hearted ?
 
I was granted PIP but not what I thought my problems were!!!! Funny old world.

You really are 'One of the few' like many my son had to go from DLA to PIP, first you complete the form many months before the 'Life Time' award of DLA ends ( who knew a life long disability only lasted 4 years, with a review after 2 years) wait 12 weeks for a decision. Decision comes '5 points no award' get over shock and inform them not happy with decision. No worries say's DWP we will do a Mandatory Reconsideration, all you need to do is send further evidence. What further evidence ? So the shed load of medical reports,Specialist reports etc that has been collected over 24 years is not good enough. Instead they only consider a 40 min exam by a 'Nurse' who they called a HCA or whatever they are called week by week. So wait another 16 weeks to hear from them when you do it's only to say ' We expect a decision soon there is a backlog' wait a further 7 weeks only to be awarded 1 more point but still 1 point short. So next stage Tribunal but another very wait of 4 months. This I was told was quick ! ...... Fast forward Tribunal day comes,go in and walk strait out as the panel had read my sons case notes, decision etc and awarded full points. So we waited 48 weeks with no payment, then a further 3 weeks before a letter from DWP asking to confirm bank details. Give details wait 8 days and 'get in' his backpay goes in. No compensation no sorry we got it wrong nothing. Wonder when we do it all again as his award has been only awarded for 3 years,with a posibility of a review at any time between now and 3 years. I'm not bitter just disapointed at this new PIP system that fails so many
 
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I don't understand the point of reviews for certain conditions. The other half's late son had Muscular Dystrophy. That was only going one way and yet every year a medic had to certify that he wasn't getting better. Documents to justify the lack of improvement had to be completed by him in person at the Post Office.

Cruel, senseless, expensive to the taxpayer and meaningless for assessing his entitlements.

He died aged 26. Surely that was hard enough without bureaucrats adding to it.
 
I was under the impression the DLA payments continued until PIP award was decided? Does the payment stop after the first knock back?
Yes the refusal of PIP ends a current DLA no matter if its a short or life award. So one decision decides that a claimant has a disability,then dismiss that decision as if the didability is no longer exists
 

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