This sits perfectly with the Daily Mail readers who are frequently told that the benefits system is weighed down by scroungers making a profession out of claiming a living wage for no work. They’ll cite examples of freakishly outlying individuals who have families with multiple complex needs in parents and children who will have multiple PIP and DLA claims alongside UC, housing and Limited Work Related Capability Awards as well as a couple of Motability cars, family fund provided holidays and white goods. They’d then point out that the tax payer keeps their Xboxes, PlayStations, iPhones and Sky subscription going while they sit on their ample butts contributing nothing to the economy.
Clearly there may well be individuals and families who are skilled at claiming the maximum available whilst avoiding work but the majority will be legitimately doing everything they can just to survive whilst dealing with potential physical and mental difficulties but that doesn’t fit with their propaganda. This is the party who have consistently claimed that those who can should work and those that don’t should be persuaded or forced into meaningful employment and have ran with that message since Thatcher was at her prime, I can’t see that changing any time soon. Unfortunately, the last Labour government was just another version of the same ethos and the only way they can be elected again is to be a slightly less blue version again.
Either way, now is not a great time to be dealing with PIP and LCWRA claims. ?
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