ROTFL! Socialism. Ya gotta love it. Another fraud scheme perpetrated on the taxpayers by freeloaders.
Sounds like something desperately needed in the USA. I would not be the least bit surprised if 15 to 20 percent of those collecting disability benefits are scams.
Good for the Brits! Will we have the good sense to do the same? (Right!)
It’s a miracle!
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TESTS??! We would NEVER impose on people for such a thing in the USA! They have rights! We should just trust them. If they say there are disabled, then that is the end of it. We just pay them to be alive until they die. We OWE it to them.
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It’s worse than the 878k number would indicate
878,300 dropped their claims
837,000 were found fit to work
367,300 were fit for some amount of work
232,000 (just 1 in 8) were found to be unable to work
GEE! That sure cured them a lot better and faster than the communist style health care UK has!
(we get articles from UK almost daily about patients dropping dead in hospital due to starvation or failure to provide care... also extremely lengthy waiting periods to see medical personnel or receive certain important treatments or surgeries)
hopefully all those articles are wrong, or exaggerations, but.... this new approach has cured nearly a million disabled people almost instantly.... (an amazing MIRACLE appropriate to this Easter/Passover season)...
Congratulations, United Kingdom!
OMG!!! BLOODSUCKERS!! Just like we have here!!
It’s a MIRACLE....Just like Billy Ray Valentine being able to WALK!!!
During that time, he filed for disability. Someone told him that only black people manage to get disability. That made him mad and determined to get it. He was sent to numerous doctors to determine if he could ever get better. One of these “doctors” told him to hop on one leg down the floor. He refused (because he had artificial hips put in not long ago). That doctor listed him as “uncooperative”.
That doctor's report made a hearing necessary. While my husband was with that doctor, he noted he did not see any doctor license or certificate on the wall anywhere. The hearing happened and my husband told the hearing panel he didn't think that man was licensed in this state. Sure enough, he wasn't. The doctor's report was thrown out and he got the disability. He had to go through hell to get that but he absolutely could not work. He had to give up his career and that was hard.
The doctors also said he would be dead by his early forties as the disease would stop his breathing and he would have to be put in “an iron lung” (that is what was used in those days). This man was determined not to die from that disease. He lived until age 66 until he died of brain cancer.
Back when he had to fight for disability it wasn't easy to get, and I don't know if it was true black people had an easier time getting it.
Years after that happened to him (and I still didn't know him), I psychologically tested people for Social Security disability or SSI disability. They had to bring all their medicines to me to list on the documents I had to complete about them. My report I wrote was usually 10 pages long, single spaced. At the end, I made a recommendation whether or not, in my opinion, based on the testing and personal interview, this person qualified for disability. The Social Security Administration would never see this person so I wanted to be sure I gave them enough information to know this person.
I saw people in terrible physical condition. I also saw one that I didn't recommend for disability payments. She was turned down and called my office. I told her all the records were owned by Social Security and she would have to contact them as they made the final decision. I also found out she had been turned down before.
I know I did my job thoroughly back then. I don't know how these matters are decided now.
Maybe we need a test here
shocker! problem here is those who would administer such tests are 3rd worlders and will give the stamp of approval to their own kind and their family and neighbors who bribe them
This is a rare thing for me to say, but we need to follow the British example in this case. Require a strict medical assessment for those on disability, kick off those who can work.