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Originally Posted by peanut
Obviously if you're one of the one affected you're going to notice it (what is going on) more than those not affected.
It's more subtle than outright, but has the same effect, but it's been constant for quite a while. Take the latest benefit freeze, they make out like its unfair for someone on benefits to get 3% rise and not someone who is working. They make it out like it is totaly unfair yet they ignore the reality that 3% can be just £2 a week. Nowhere in the same league as 3% of a wage. But the spin always put a claimant in a bad light.
As a claimant it really is hard to see it in any other light especially when they ram the 'we're all in it together' horlicks down our throats constantly.
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Yes that's always the case. Having said that, directly and indirectly, as a carer for my son who's only 'income' is DLA, I'm very much one of those who could be affected by benefit changes and the public's attitude towards claimants.