Blocked from benefits ... literally
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6 жыл бұрынJaki has been living without disability benefits for almost a year. When she applied for employment and support allowance, she had to attend a work capability assessment. After an hour's journey, she found she was not able to access the testing centre. Her experience is not unique
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@wendyalexander5342 6 жыл бұрын
They physically blocked her benefits because of no access into a building. Something that should be done adequately!
@nicolenox7882 6 жыл бұрын
FFS this is inhumane! Where is the human decency in these services?
@NotShowingOff 5 жыл бұрын
This is what happens when you invest in wars, and implement conservative govt. many voters don’t know truly disabled ppl except maybe their elderly parents. Exposure creates re-assessment of these allocations.
@lilyrose7082 4 жыл бұрын
I too worked 60 hours a week as a registered nurse! I always had weird stiff necks as a teen, in my 20’s I got widespread pain, 30’s an on up until ages 42 when I collapsed at work and was finally diagnosed with FMS or fibromyalgia and arthritis. I couldn’t remember things and the pain at times was unbearable. Don’t judge a book by a cover! Please! This poor woman is obviously very sick as well!
@SRPC21 2 жыл бұрын
I’m sorry you went through that Lily
@ninnithecat 3 жыл бұрын
Poor woman wearing sandals and no umbrella in rainy weather in a wheelchair along that traffocked road.
@chriswainwright185 4 жыл бұрын
Disgusting way to treat DISABLED people
@Exsugarbabe1 6 жыл бұрын
Has no one in that office heard of a ramp? Or they could have lifted the thing into the building, disgusting and this has to be on purpose.
@isoaqua5825 6 жыл бұрын
Give this woman my tax every month.... Sorted.
@thehypest6118 5 жыл бұрын
But how will the MP's pay for their wives pedicures??
@Bill-zp2mt 6 жыл бұрын
Mental health issue and depression with the disease make the patient unable to handle things herself. They need a better system, which they actively try to get people to the right places.
@Keepingitrespectfulmostly. 5 жыл бұрын
What an absolute gem she is. Her courage and determination are to be admired. Sent with respect. Great personality.
@katrinabrown7755 Жыл бұрын
Pervert
@therealKINDLE 6 жыл бұрын
This is a cruel & spitefully inefficient system. I thought this was designed to give desperate, vulnerable, & disabled people a life line so they can find solace? As far as I can see, the system designed to help them, is the very thing crippling them so unequivocally that it drives them to suicide. And the fact that Universal Credit is going to be *Online Only* further takes away the personal support these people need. No wonder the homeless population has just exploded.
@therealKINDLE 6 жыл бұрын
Oh look! It's the Daily Mail! Still using the old "Sitting on their arses watching Jeremy Kyle" cliché? Damn I thought people heard the last of that old chestnut 10 years ago!! £12BILLION is wasted on Tax Avoidance from Real Wealthy elite; mostly politicians, who are selling more (apparently illegal) Medicinal Cannabis than any other country in the world. Yet no one has a valid prescription in the UK. They are selling off our assets, our NHS, Royal Mail, 7th Bridge, Dartford tunnel, Forests, Property, they have cut funds to practically every public service & yet keep wages down, prices up, & spend 4 months on lavishing holidays with £3,000 bottles of wine, whilst away from their 3 private abodes for doing exactly what? But you show yourself up by picking on disabled self-loathing people for sitting in doors, living in pain every day, watching a tv & using a cell phone? Yup! Definitely the Daily Fail LOL!
@duprie37 6 жыл бұрын
@RoadKillzine I live in Australia. How are they just being "swept along" when it looks like the government has an assessment office for disability support claimants that is, of all the ridiculous things in the world, wheelchair inaccessible to disabled people? They'd never ever, ever get away with this here. All welfare offices must be wheelchair accessible by law, and as a result all of them are wheelchair accessible. It sounds like blatant discrimination to me. It sounds like your government is actively blocking disabled people from getting the benefits they need to survive, not just sweeping them along. I don't know about the UK, but if this happened in Australia there'd be a public uproar. All the media would be all over it shaming the government and that woman would have her disability pension appoved before you could blink.
@thehypest6118 5 жыл бұрын
The Tories want the disabled to die off so they stop being a 'liability' on the country
@RahulSingh-rk5dz 6 жыл бұрын
Good job on The Guardian for bringing such stories forward.
@claudiamariebermudez6727 5 жыл бұрын
What a disgrace.....treating disabled people this way!
@spencerhowell9287 6 жыл бұрын
Broken Britain 🇬🇧, bet the chief executive of her local Council got a nice new shiny merc in the council car park .
@Rebeccasweet100 3 жыл бұрын
How could this lady be refused the top benefit? It's so obvious that in no way she is a fraudulent person.
@morrari690 6 жыл бұрын
S H A M E F U L L !!!! When is the march for humanity
@firstlast3507 4 жыл бұрын
I am disabled. I need to die by my own hand. Stock pile my medication then I'm done.
@valerieannrumpf4151 3 жыл бұрын
That does not look accessible to me.
@shaununderwood6048 4 жыл бұрын
so its sad isn't it , we had in the Labour manifesto a massive work proposal to provide accessibility throughout the uk , that step would have been made into a ramp this would have meant workers hired to do it and so muvch more as making the uk accessible is a massive contract , regretting things already , what a missed opportunity
@isoaqua5825 6 жыл бұрын
This can happen 2 anyone.
@iamthe1234567890 6 жыл бұрын
Isometric Aquariums especially those who can't spell "to"
@jacknorris6121 4 жыл бұрын
My father has had similar issues with DWP particularly the pips assessment, in his case thankfully he won the tribunal. Is anyone aware of what has happened to this woman since?
@katrinarepine3879 2 жыл бұрын
I have FND and had to hand my license in for an ID card just the other day. My seizures are bad as are my memory and I have delayed reaction. So if something happens I’m slower to react and too dangerous to drive. It’s made me so depressed.
@zoesmith1536 6 жыл бұрын
WTF where's the disabled access?
@edieking5767 6 жыл бұрын
Are they taking a page out of the U.S.A. Book.
@misterlyle. 4 жыл бұрын
@@wands2457 As it is everywhere in the United States. It is strange that a lawyer can't help her bring a lawsuit against an agency that isn't allowing access for all citizens. Nevertheless, it seems clear that this report has left out important details that would help it all make better sense.
@themaskedscotslass 5 жыл бұрын
That’s shocking how dwp treat people which is what I am worried about as I’m able bodied but have autistic spectrum when the day comes to move onto pip and have assessment how will I know if the assessor isn’t gonna try lie on the paperwork to force me benefits from me just cause I’m able bodied as not all disabilities are visible in appearance
@karenblackwood5883 4 жыл бұрын
No dignity or respect,don't need Dr referral, I had home visit
@ibradul 6 жыл бұрын
is there any way we can help her out directly?
@wendyalexander5342 6 жыл бұрын
ibrahim abdul set up a go find me page on face book for her
@thehypest6118 5 жыл бұрын
protest to your local MP, find out who it is and send a letter, do a few hours research first know what to say and give them a strongly worded letter, they'll ignore it but it's the trying that matters
@maryuk07 5 жыл бұрын
@ibrahimabdul You sir, are a good person for even asking this question, it just shows how kind a stranger can be. Not everyone is heartless.
@fauxmanchu8094 4 жыл бұрын
Maryf 👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏 bless you for caring.
@fauxmanchu8094 4 жыл бұрын
M B Smith 👏👏👏 bless you for being compassionate. 🙏🙏🙏
@therealistafrican6567 2 жыл бұрын
She is not wearing socks or boots and it looks cold
@maryfiaola3686 5 жыл бұрын
so right, this could be any one of us in this situation,sad
@kahuna3901 3 жыл бұрын
Vote conservative, this is what you get !
@SRPC21 2 жыл бұрын
Poor woman 😕
@1stinlastout165 2 жыл бұрын
I tried to get a home visit for my wife but was told she as to attend an interview next week , they have no understanding or care what life is like caring for someone who finds it difficult to get around and the planning that's involved in building someone up to actually go outside that as depression/ anxiety and other illnesses. This rips me apart that fellow human beings treat others like this?
@adelemarini3240 5 жыл бұрын
The government make every time worse for poor people and disabled people
@439bananas 5 жыл бұрын
They are supposed to have disabled access to all their buildings, for their employees, let alone the claimants. For goodness sake, it just shows what idiotic numbskulls these people really are that they can not organise a simple ramp; just a wedge of wood to the height of the step with a couple of coats of decking paint, it is not rocket science.
@tacticalaltarboy5875 3 жыл бұрын
there's people like this who need it then there is a family up the road from me who is on there second disability car her husband works fulltime while living there she walks her dog and kids to school while claiming disability benefits and there is nothing wrong with her our benefit system is a joke
@stuartashbourne-martin9629 4 жыл бұрын
Because of the quarantinesome people might realise how difficult being housebound and disabled actually is as they're doing the same thing apart from the fact that this person is ill
@pendlelancashire Жыл бұрын
*Now you know my pain when you've lived through it.*
@percyblakeney3743 6 жыл бұрын
They apologized. Disgusting.
@samanthahardy9903 7 ай бұрын
A friend of my daughter is permanently in a wheelchair due to spina bifida. Every time she goes for an assessment the DWP always send her to jobcentres with steps and the wheelchair lifts are always broken!
@karenblackwood5883 4 жыл бұрын
Did you get it sorted ?
@lavendersprig2905 Жыл бұрын
Someone get her an at home computer job .
@drkarenbukharibukhari9931 Жыл бұрын
i am myself struggling on uc just 290pounds are not enough and i am repaying 29 pounds debt already from uc clothes 200 pounds gas electricity bills 144 food bills unable to cope
@abiybattlespell8401 6 жыл бұрын
ya can literally get a piece of wood to fix that... sigh
@dotnb 6 жыл бұрын
How is this right?
@LetsDoBetterNow 6 жыл бұрын
A lot of countries simply do not have these sort of benefits BUT seeing as we have them then we should do all we can in order to make life for people who have these sort of disabilities easier.
@richardmadden8742 6 жыл бұрын
Let's Do Better Now Eventually most Social Security will be abolished but agree with you that whilst we have them they should be administered fairly.
@kefkapalazzo1 6 жыл бұрын
shame someone cant go with her at the very least. the little gap aint much for two woman to help. at least hold the door so she can come straight on with momentum goddamn.
@editorrbr2107 4 жыл бұрын
I now see where we Americans inherited our shitty roads and disgusting treatment of those worse off than ourselves
@kenjewell5619 9 ай бұрын
Just an observation, she was in pain crossing roads at dropped kerbs but was fine bumping into the step of the assessment centre doorway to make her point she could not access the building.
@anonymousx5834 4 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the future
@j_mck_4936 5 жыл бұрын
Use a ramp simple
@billyjohnson277 5 жыл бұрын
They are disgusting
@BonkNosey 4 жыл бұрын
The benefit system is there for everyone even people in work, As anything can happen then your out of work and depend on it. It is so sad to see how DWP and the goverment treat ill health.
@evegreen6434 4 жыл бұрын
If you vote tories this is what you get
@thewatcher5248 2 жыл бұрын
At least she's getting pip I'm getting nothing with cancer and truth I'm suffering like people I don't think understand
@JamesMilliganJr 6 жыл бұрын
Very day. But I am wondering why her disability benefits were suspended?
@WorthlessWinner 6 жыл бұрын
I think it's because she didn't attend the assessment. They reassess people periodically to see if you still need the money and if you don't attend you lose the money.
@rainmayhem4255 6 жыл бұрын
You know another crazy fact is that when the Nazis were bombing the British they bombed all the poor neighborhoods. All the rich people and there estates and castles barely got a scratch. And people from the royal family were married to high ranking Nazis. And the queen funded the Nazis the rich from around the works did but they don't talk about that when they talk about history. In every war it is always the poor who suffer and die. When everyone was on rations the rich had lavish party's and feast while people were starving in the streets. War is a form of population control just like neglecting to take care Of ur citizens is a form of population control. People need to wake up
@holistic7980 5 жыл бұрын
I think it's best to empower what you have not what you had. Each loss in life is actually a gain to something new and different face every challenge positively and not complaining elevates you to a higher level 😃but being negative👎 pulls you down a dark place drowning your spirit⚠
@reddress2200 3 жыл бұрын
She doesn't look like she is wasting away. Bad situation though.
@emmaleary3767 Жыл бұрын
Nasty thing to say. She can't move and her strong meds probably aid to weight gain
@katrinabrown7755 Жыл бұрын
Shut up
@korruptnovellst4751 6 жыл бұрын
This woman is disintegrating.
@evildeed90s 3 жыл бұрын
she can blink shes able to work
@dothedeed 6 жыл бұрын
I would just get 2 large books, open them over the hump before the door and use that as a ramp to enter the building. I would be getting my money one way or the other.
@SnazzBot 6 жыл бұрын
dothedeed what age childish pale and nonsense have just spidered.
@zk420zk 5 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one that noticed her wincing in "pain" over every little bump in the road but was perfectly fine ramming her scooter in to that step four or five times? Typical benefit cheat.
@holistic7980 5 жыл бұрын
Observant but pain can go up and down ☺
@stevennicholaidis4473 Жыл бұрын
Joke?
@josephcroft4268 Жыл бұрын
no way is she short of food
@georgekafantaris7807 3 жыл бұрын
shes probably scaming
@katrinabrown7755 Жыл бұрын
Mpron
@spartanclipboardforwindows5857 6 жыл бұрын
It must be the Tory's fault. (Guardian excuse for everything)
@vx9013 6 жыл бұрын
They have been in power since 2010. Who else would you blame?
@ensyy_ 6 жыл бұрын
Benefit cheats
@richardmadden8742 6 жыл бұрын
f k Trolls!
@chocomoose394 4 жыл бұрын
Yes, the DWP most certainly are benefit cheats, bigtime.
@merson812 6 жыл бұрын
Had she been an Indian or Pakistani her life would be much easier.
@UKgamer87 6 жыл бұрын
She would then have to deal with bigots like you....Non white with disabilities are facing the same problems but amplified.
@SnazzBot 6 жыл бұрын
If you lived in Pakistan or India your life would be much easier.
@thehypest6118 5 жыл бұрын
I was made to sleep on the streets for 7 months whilst foreign family after foreign family was housed, the government couldn't care less about the natives here in this country and they couldn't care less about those in need
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