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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
We manage not always great but enough for saying i am not working and now never likely too. I have always agreed the benefit culture needs stopping and that there are some on it who have no real need or reason to be on it bar they make a choice to not work. I am worried as are most genuine claimants that a nice big wide brush is going to be applied to the system in order to clear out quite obvious problems within it.
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That's the problem though; Everyone agrees abuse of the system must stop and only genuine claimants receive benefit but the problem is defining a genuine claimant and tackling the system without impacting on the innocent.
This is an example of how 'genuine claimant' is difficult to define:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...nadine-dorries
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Nadine Dorries, the Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire, on Thursday urged her blog readers to report to the Department of Work and Pensions people who tweet more than 50 times a day and claim benefits. She had apparently being told of a tweeter who has posted 34,500 times in a few months. This tweeter is Humphrey Cushion, who is disabled through arthritis, yet does not qualify for disability living allowance. She had to give up work as a home carer, as she is currently on a waiting list for two foot operations. If someone tweeted so frequently, Dorries wrote, then clearly they had nothing wrong with their hands or mind and should therefore be fit for work.
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