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Originally Posted by Tony.
Whilst I sympathise with anyone in need of help you must agree there is a section of the community that is abusing this system. Therefore bearing this in mind how would you suggest they are denied this service whilst helping genuine cases?
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There is always going to be a proportion of every section of society who abuse the system. My point is that things are made disproportionatley difficult for those who due to their disability often find it hardest to go through the process. There is, for example, clearly a sizeable group of able bodied but entirely seflish people who abuse the Blue Badge scheme in various ways, many of which don't involve abuse of the DLA system yet which impact adversely on genuine DLA recipients. Making the DLA forms even more onerous won't affect those who steal or buy fake badges but doing so would make the lives of people who already have a tough time even harder. From my recollection the child and working tax credit forms are nowhere near as complex or demoralising as the DLA forms yet I bet the amount of money falsely claimed via the former system vastly outweighs that wrongly obtained in the latter.
Abuse of the system is always wrong but disproportionately penalising the most vulnerable, disadvantaged and/or needy in society isn't the way to put that fact right.