RizzyKing

There is nothing wrong with helping those who could work to get work they are only doing what those people want anyway, but assuming everyone can work is taking it too far. If them telling me I'm fit for work made it so I'd save up some money and pay them but sadly it doesn't work like that. Using myself as an example i leave with pain 24\7 and that's just being in the house, tomorrow i go to see my rheumatologist the hospital is 700 metres away it'll take me 45 minutes to get there and just over an hour to return home. Thankfully i have an excellent Dr who understands by the time he see's me pain will be affecting my concentration so he speaks slowly and takes all the time needed. I'll get home by about 11:30 and the main pain will start to ease off about 21-2200 if I'm lucky I'll be able to sleep.

Now if i had to repeat the same trip tuesday it would take just over an hour and a half to get there and a good two to get back home with the pain substantially increased and it would not ease off till mid morning wednesday. Doing it for a 5 day week would make me completely useless to a company by wednesday my concentration levels would be seriously compromised and my general mood wouldn't be good I'm told i get snappier the more pain I'm in which I'm not aware of at the time. For the last year and a half I've been getting very severe headaches which can last months current one has been going for about 18 weeks and the cause is currently being sought. I haven't included that on any forms as there isn't a cause and specific diagnosis even though it further compromises my ability to concentrate. This is why the assessment in the current form isn't doing as much as it could and needs to be improved.

Like so many other terms in modern life disability is used to describe many people that don't match the image many people have from a couple of decades ago. It's also a term some think explains everything and puts any debate to bed and it doesn't, I've always believed that more could and should have been done to help the public understand how the term disability was being applied and how it's meaning hadn't so much changed as expanded to cover other things. I also would support very heavy penalties on anyone found to be commiting fraud using disability.