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I still don't get why informed citizens don't trust her.
On the scumbag Duncan Smith's watch this is what he was up to.
Underpaid disability claimants to receive up to £20,000
"Tens of thousands of severely disabled and ill claimants are set to receive backdated payments of up to £20,000 after being wrongly underpaid for years by social security officials, the government spending watchdog has revealed.
An estimated 70,000 claimants were underpaid about £340m between 2011 and 2014 after being transferred from older benefits on to employment and support allowance (ESA) during a government overhaul of incapacity benefits, the National Audit Office (NAO) said.
The error occurred when officials at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to follow their own legal guidelines governing the transfer process, meaning that in many cases they failed to properly check claimants’ full entitlements.
"The DWP “failed to get a grip” on the problem for several years despite being alerted to it by staff as early as 2013, the NAO said. Even when it recognised its error as systemic in 2014 it ignored the issue of repayments for a further 18 months.
Although in May 2016 the DWP’s fraud and error team identified an ongoing and significant issue with underpayments, officials prevaricated for a further year before accepting the department had a legal duty to identify and repay affected claimants".
Now we know why he resigned. Not because of austerity cuts to those with a disability, but he was in the dock for being in charge of the DWP, that targeted and deliberately cut help to people with a disability and who were entitled to that help. But he can live on £53 per week, so he says.
This is on top of the 1 million sanctions administered by the DWP against people with a disability.
More than a million benefits sanctions imposed on disabled people ...
"The study found that disabled claimants receiving jobseekers’ allowance – given to people who are out of work – were 26-53% more likely to be sanctioned than claimants who were not. Those hit by sanctions reported that the disparity arose because jobcentre staff failed to take sufficient account of their disabilities".
Nina Grant, 32
Nina Grant has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a genetic collagen defect that causes chronic pain, fatigue and frequent joint injuries. She was sanctioned in 2016 after she informed the Department for Work and Pensions that she was carrying out what the department specifically describes as “permitted work” while on disability benefits. “I only found out about the sanction when I checked my bank balance and realised the payment hadn’t gone in as usual.”
After she complained, her benefits were reinstated. “They didn’t apologise. They didn’t offer any explanation. If I hadn’t called them, it could have gone on for months. It made me feel like I was being punished for trying to contribute while disabled, and scared that they were going to use that as an excuse not to pay me.”
The Londoner is reliant on a wheelchair outside her home, and finds it extremely painful even to use a pen most days. “I understand that people exploit the system, but this government treats disabled people with utter contempt.”
Josie Evans, 42
Ten years ago Josie Evans was working as a nurse when she suddenly went into anaphylactic shock. After 41 further life-threatening attacks, she has been diagnosed with idiopathic anaphylaxis, which means she is extremely allergic to more than 100 antigens and triggers.
She relies on disability benefit to pay her rent and buy food but was sanctioned in 2016 after failing to send in a form on time: “The document was 20 pages long and I was in too much pain to write, because my hands were swollen from a recent allergic reaction I’d had.”
She explained this and was told she could take her time. Ten days later, a letter arrived from her landlord saying her housing benefit had not been paid. She discovered all her disability benefits had been stopped because the form had been late. “I was scared. I knew I’d need to buy food in the next 48 hours, and I can’t use a food bank because of all my allergies.”
It took weeks for her benefit to be reinstated, and she had to borrow money from her family. “It was so stressful it brought on an allergic attack. The people who work at the DWP simply do not understand the reality of what it’s like to be disabled. There is no room for compassion.”
" His department had previously been subject to criticism for trying to force one of the world’s longest surviving kidney dialysis patients with 33 years of renal treatment, four failed transplants and 14 heart attacks back to work.[54]
But Ian Duncan Smith can live on £53 per week, so he says. Parliament should reprimand this man for the damage and heartache he has caused people with a disability.
Underpaid disability claimants to receive up to £20,000
"Tens of thousands of severely disabled and ill claimants are set to receive backdated payments of up to £20,000 after being wrongly underpaid for years by social security officials, the government spending watchdog has revealed.
An estimated 70,000 claimants were underpaid about £340m between 2011 and 2014 after being transferred from older benefits on to employment and support allowance (ESA) during a government overhaul of incapacity benefits, the National Audit Office (NAO) said.
The error occurred when officials at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to follow their own legal guidelines governing the transfer process, meaning that in many cases they failed to properly check claimants’ full entitlements.
"The DWP “failed to get a grip” on the problem for several years despite being alerted to it by staff as early as 2013, the NAO said. Even when it recognised its error as systemic in 2014 it ignored the issue of repayments for a further 18 months.
Although in May 2016 the DWP’s fraud and error team identified an ongoing and significant issue with underpayments, officials prevaricated for a further year before accepting the department had a legal duty to identify and repay affected claimants".
Now we know why he resigned. Not because of austerity cuts to those with a disability, but he was in the dock for being in charge of the DWP, that targeted and deliberately cut help to people with a disability and who were entitled to that help. But he can live on £53 per week, so he says.
This is on top of the 1 million sanctions administered by the DWP against people with a disability.
More than a million benefits sanctions imposed on disabled people ...
"The study found that disabled claimants receiving jobseekers’ allowance – given to people who are out of work – were 26-53% more likely to be sanctioned than claimants who were not. Those hit by sanctions reported that the disparity arose because jobcentre staff failed to take sufficient account of their disabilities".
Nina Grant, 32
Nina Grant has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a genetic collagen defect that causes chronic pain, fatigue and frequent joint injuries. She was sanctioned in 2016 after she informed the Department for Work and Pensions that she was carrying out what the department specifically describes as “permitted work” while on disability benefits. “I only found out about the sanction when I checked my bank balance and realised the payment hadn’t gone in as usual.”
After she complained, her benefits were reinstated. “They didn’t apologise. They didn’t offer any explanation. If I hadn’t called them, it could have gone on for months. It made me feel like I was being punished for trying to contribute while disabled, and scared that they were going to use that as an excuse not to pay me.”
The Londoner is reliant on a wheelchair outside her home, and finds it extremely painful even to use a pen most days. “I understand that people exploit the system, but this government treats disabled people with utter contempt.”
Josie Evans, 42
Ten years ago Josie Evans was working as a nurse when she suddenly went into anaphylactic shock. After 41 further life-threatening attacks, she has been diagnosed with idiopathic anaphylaxis, which means she is extremely allergic to more than 100 antigens and triggers.
She relies on disability benefit to pay her rent and buy food but was sanctioned in 2016 after failing to send in a form on time: “The document was 20 pages long and I was in too much pain to write, because my hands were swollen from a recent allergic reaction I’d had.”
She explained this and was told she could take her time. Ten days later, a letter arrived from her landlord saying her housing benefit had not been paid. She discovered all her disability benefits had been stopped because the form had been late. “I was scared. I knew I’d need to buy food in the next 48 hours, and I can’t use a food bank because of all my allergies.”
It took weeks for her benefit to be reinstated, and she had to borrow money from her family. “It was so stressful it brought on an allergic attack. The people who work at the DWP simply do not understand the reality of what it’s like to be disabled. There is no room for compassion.”
" His department had previously been subject to criticism for trying to force one of the world’s longest surviving kidney dialysis patients with 33 years of renal treatment, four failed transplants and 14 heart attacks back to work.[54]
But Ian Duncan Smith can live on £53 per week, so he says. Parliament should reprimand this man for the damage and heartache he has caused people with a disability.
orchard
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Elizabeth Truss
@trussliz
Mar 19
The Tory revolution was once fermented in the townhouses of Notting Hill- now it is in the industrial towns and port cities where the call of freedom rings loudest #freecountry #livefree
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Elizabeth Truss
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Every generation wants their own version of#freedom- freedom to shape their own lives. This is about #choice #destiny @Freer_UK
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Elizabeth Truss
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This generation are #Uber-riding #Airbnb-ing #Deliveroo-eating #freedomfighters
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Elizabeth Truss
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Let's be proud of what we believe#Torieswithattitude
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David Absalom
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Mar 19
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Have you been at the cooking sherry?
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Vicount Ian Kerr CGC
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Idiot.
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home tom
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embarrassing
@trussliz
Mar 19
The Tory revolution was once fermented in the townhouses of Notting Hill- now it is in the industrial towns and port cities where the call of freedom rings loudest #freecountry #livefree
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Elizabeth Truss@trussliz
Mar 19
Replying to @Freer_UK
Every generation wants their own version of#freedom- freedom to shape their own lives. This is about #choice #destiny @Freer_UK
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Elizabeth Truss
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This generation are #Uber-riding #Airbnb-ing #Deliveroo-eating #freedomfighters
12:54 pm - 19 Mar 2018
Elizabeth Truss
@trussliz
Mar 19
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Let's be proud of what we believe#Torieswithattitude
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David Absalom
@britishpictures
Mar 19
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Have you been at the cooking sherry?
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Vicount Ian Kerr CGC
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Mar 20
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Idiot.
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home tom
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embarrassing
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orchard
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James O'Brien tore into Nadine Dorries after she claimed she was better than him because she earns more money than him.
The Conservative MP responded to a tweet which claimed that James had called her dumb on his LBC show.
Ioan Said
@Ioan_Said
Mar 20
@mrjamesob just clobbered @NadineDorries , calling her dumb on air! Major ouch! (But he was making a good point..) pic.twitter.com/zBpzl9yv5R
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Nadine Dorries
@NadineDorriesReplying to @Ioan_Said@mrjamesob
Yeah, so dumb I earn more than him. God save me from being as smart as he is.
3:39 am - 20 Mar 2018
The person she was tweeting, Ioan Said responded: "Don’t use earning power as a way to claim your intelligence, it’s not really that clever an answer."
The Conservative MP responded to a tweet which claimed that James had called her dumb on his LBC show.
Ioan Said
@Ioan_Said
Mar 20
@mrjamesob just clobbered @NadineDorries , calling her dumb on air! Major ouch! (But he was making a good point..) pic.twitter.com/zBpzl9yv5R
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Nadine Dorries
@NadineDorriesReplying to @Ioan_Said@mrjamesob
Yeah, so dumb I earn more than him. God save me from being as smart as he is.
3:39 am - 20 Mar 2018
The person she was tweeting, Ioan Said responded: "Don’t use earning power as a way to claim your intelligence, it’s not really that clever an answer."
James O'Brien tore into Nadine Dorries after she claimed she was better than him because she earns more money than him.
The Conservative MP responded to a tweet which claimed that James had called her dumb on his LBC show.
Ioan Said
@Ioan_Said
Mar 20
@mrjamesob just clobbered @NadineDorries , calling her dumb on air! Major ouch! (But he was making a good point..) pic.twitter.com/zBpzl9yv5R
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Nadine Dorries
@NadineDorriesReplying to @Ioan_Said@mrjamesob
Yeah, so dumb I earn more than him. God save me from being as smart as he is.
3:39 am - 20 Mar 2018
The person she was tweeting, Ioan Said responded: "Don’t use earning power as a way to claim your intelligence, it’s not really that clever an answer."
She was probably doing a Harry Enfield parody. Like OldBlues sarcasm font.
orchard
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Can't wait for this crass trash to redefine our rights and obligations to be British.
It's inevitable that you'll have people who don't share your views deciding a lot about your life, but you just hope they're not miles out. There's very little that's likeable about the Tories at the moment.
NilSatisOptimum
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Quelle surprise, the Tory Government very likely renegades on its commitment to re-house all Grenfell victims within the year.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...to-rehouse-grenfell-survivors-says-javid-fire
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...to-rehouse-grenfell-survivors-says-javid-fire
It's pretty much out of the news now, so the Tories don't have to pretend to care anymore
Could house the victims of Grenfell in all those Russian oligarch billionaire mansions. But that would be against the Tories ideological bent for protecting the rich and powerful.
orchard
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We do need to uphold property rights though?
I think permitting bought citizenship and allowing non-citizen's to buy land and property easily may be the crux of the issue.
I think permitting bought citizenship and allowing non-citizen's to buy land and property easily may be the crux of the issue.
If property is purchased due to criminal activity it can be legally confiscated.
How 'dirty money' from Russia flooded into the UK – and where it went ...
UK at centre of secret $3bn Azerbaijani money laundering and ...
One question is, is Laundromat legal if not then the property bought with dodgy money can be confiscated. Another question is, will the Tories take action against all of those involved in Laundromat no matter where they are from, including in this country.
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