What really f'cking gets me is how the press make life on benfits seem like an easy option.
I don't know anyone who's needed them and gotten them in an acceptable timeframe. Sick Benfit is a fucking joke, around 60% of denied claims go through as granted on appeal. 60%, that's almost 2/3rds of this country's most vulnrable people who have to go through hell for no reason.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:55, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

i keep thinking of my poor godmother. She's away to the fairies and really vulnerable, but physically 'ok'.
I just know they're going to throw her off 'the sick' and I swear she would get fired anyway becuase she has short-term amnesia and doesn't know where she's been/going. She's the type of trusting person who would get raped in the store-room or something.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:58, Reply)

Has she tried taking lots of polaroids and plotting her revenge?

(PsychoChomp, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 14:02, Reply)

is this off a film?
I only know the one where he writes all over himself in permanent marker. Sometimes my nana says to her "In Tesco, remind me to get eggs" or whatever. And she says "Are you being funny?!"
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 14:04, Reply)

Memento, it's a fucking excellent film.
Go watch it. NOW
(PsychoChomp, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 14:08, Reply)

Does he write over himself in marker?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 14:11, Reply)

If you can't go to your assesment, then you're being lazy and can go do one, if you can go, then you can go to work instead.
Payments being rediculously late, like, weeks and months, seem normal. Forms and letters always go missing, it's mass incompitancy, they _never_ call back, unless you owe them. They'll make mistake after mistake, if they over-pay you, it's no problem, they'll just take it out later on.

And they make the system so hellish that people make themselves really ill going back to work, and when they fail after a week because they aren't ready, they have to start all over again.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 14:07, Reply)

They also lie in the 'transcripts'
I'm going to go with her and take a dictaphone
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 14:09, Reply)

but that wouldn't make a screaming front page, so it wouldn't sell papers, gonzo
the lone 3rd generation scrounger who earns £100k on the side, however, will get the daily fail readers frothing at the gash.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 13:59, Reply)

Exactly, and then they vilify the person who accepts what they're given rather than the system which gave them it.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 14:08, Reply)

You can be on incapacity benefit for being an alkie,
which strikes me as a bit much.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 23 Jan 2012, 14:12, Reply)