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Originally Posted by Angua
Yet by the same token anyone who does manage to find work off their own bat despite disability is jumped on for also expecting state help to either continue in work or failing that find other work. If you are disabled you may need no help from the state to work or you may need help to get work and sustain the job. Neither scenario is wrong. The important issue is what is not perhaps the cheapest option but what is cost effective in the long term. Clearly parts of Remploy were not cost effective so the right decision has for once been made. However, this government seems to have no idea how cost effective it is to keep a disabled person in their own home with a little support rather than in highly expensive residential care. So the vast majority of genuine disabled folk are lumped together with the tiny minority of fakers.  |
Problem is separating the genuine from the fakers ,and part of the problem is that the term "disabled" is so easily applied to people these days .I've just had a browse at the latest figures and am staggered to see that 1 in 5 people of working age in the UK are considered disabled .Now either the UK is a very sick place and getting worse or the definition of disabled has been changed to include anybody with a limp or is a tad anxious .Finding the fakers amongst those 1 in 5 is the job the government has been tasked with and it isn''t going to be easy given that the term disabled has been so easily applied