RizzyKing

If you really want to debate the welfare system in the uk your first action should be avoiding the daily mail it's a hateful little rag pandering to a fortunately dying group and absolutely cannot be trusted to present the facts. There is no perfect system never has and never will be there are always ways to abuse if that is the type of person you are, fact is the vast majority of claimants are decent, honest and play by the rules and don't deserve to be tarnished with the brush of a tiny minority which is happening all too often. As for the op nothing about your observation shouts abuse or fraud and certainly doesn't give credence to widespread abuse, did you think just perhaps that was the husband/wife of the person entitled.

If your on disability benefits for any length of time i can assure you your not a fraud both medical technology and understanding of physiology have made it near impossible to commit fraud longterm by claiming medical problems. I only know the one way to get disability benefits while pretending to have an issue, you make the claim which will go through a GP's letter will suffice for an initial application you will get benefits for a few months then as your nearing the six month period you cease the disability claim and go back to JSA. Claiming disability benefits for longer then six months gets you on the assessment list and after six months most GP's will refer you to a consultant.

So if you meet people who have constantly been on disability benefits for two years or more despite what you might think they are legit. Generally i have found the people criticising or claiming how easy benefits are have never actually gone through the system they have just read about it in a paper and accepted it as correct and never delve much deeper.