Are You 'Anxious &/Or Depressed Or Maybe Have Acne' ?

[Khandro]

Britons with acne, constipation and those who abused alcohol and drugs are claiming almost £10,000-a-year each in disability benefits from a welfare system that experts warn is no longer fit for purpose.

The cost of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is set to rise from £15bn before the pandemic to £37bn in real terms by the end of the decade, while the overall cost of sickness and disability benefits is on course to climb to £100bn.

PIP provides cash payments for those with extra care or mobility needs, allowing people to spend it on everything from taxis to mobility scooters and cars. Roughly 1.3m people are eligible for the maximum of £9,500 a year to help them cope with a “main disabling condition” that ranges from drug abuse to obesity to long Covid.

Claims linked to some form of anxiety and depression account for one of the biggest sub-category of PIP, with over 800,000 payments now supporting the anxious and depressed.

Today's Telegraph.

 

[Khandro]

//because the changes to eligibility criteria published in the times a few days ago would do that.//

As far as I know, there have been no criteria published by the government at all as yet.

Everything else is Left-wing scaremongering & speculation.

It is the scroungers who are to be targeted not the genuine invalides.

[Untitled]

that's exactly what the tories said 15 years ago khandro. lo and behold huge numbers of vulnerable people died as a result. 

[Khandro]

//lo and behold huge numbers of vulnerable people died as a result. //

Do you just make up history to suit your prejudices ?

[Cloverjo]

I have suffered anxiety and depression while a single mother. Getting a job helped me climb out of it. Best thing I could have done. 

 

 

[Untitled]

no khandro i rely on rigorous and peer reviewed research into the subject

https://jech.bmj.com/content/76/12/1027.full

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/10/e046417

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953621005578

https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/272705/
 

 

[Untitled]

"Do you just make up history to suit your prejudices ?"

as is so often the case, when a conservative accuses you of something treat it as a confession that they are doing it.

we assume of others what we know of ourselves..

[davebro3]

Tool and the gang will out-Tory the Tories if his MPs and the unions let him.

[naomi24]

Untitled, 'We assume of others what we know of ourselves'. The irony there is laughable.  

[Untitled]

oh look naomi is here

do you have any thoughts on ynnafymmi calling me an idiot on page 1? 

[Khandro]

Untitled 8:47  all speculation. Not a single death has been directly atributable to government negligence. 

People die every day - surely you knew that.

[naomi24]

I hadn't seen it, untitled, but presumably unnamed mods who may, without your knowledge, be present on this thread, have no thoughts on it.  Would you like it removed?

[Untitled]

just curious naomi seeing as you went through some ridiculous contortions a week or two ago to define something as an insult. 

[naomi24]

I've no recollection of going through contortions, untitled, but as you said 'We assume of others what we know of ourselves'.  Would you like the earlier post removed or not?

[Untitled]

khandro

the papers i linked to all argue credibly that austerity resulted in excess deaths. that they argue this is a fact and i suggest you read them in full if you wish to form a valid opinion about why they reached that conclusion. 
 

my priority is that such damaging policies are halted and reversed, not extended. 

[Untitled]

no leave it. my reply doesn't make sense otherwise. 

[ToraToraTora]

No one died as a result of "austerity" they died as a result of their own bad choices. No one is poor in this country, we are one of the most generous nations in the world for benefits. That's why the channel is full of aliens trying to get here. It's what they choose to do with the more than generous hand outs they get. No one is starving unless they choose to be because they have other priorities. End of.

[Untitled]

i have four credible and peer reviewed publications which investigated this question and found that people did in fact die due to austerity. i trust their conclusions more than i trust the assertions of tories. 

[naomi24]

//i have four credible and peer reviewed publications which investigated this question and found that people did in fact die due to austerity.//

 

I can't recall the headlines that, if those reports bore any substance, should have been screaming at us.  Once again you're latching on to something that suits your agenda, untutled.

[Untitled]

"if i didn't see it in the newspapers it didn't happen" lol. it's an argument that refutes itself. 

[naomi24]

Just another of your damp squibs, untitled.  No one can say you don't try though.