• The post you are reporting:
   
  DLA and other associated benefits are just another tool in the Politicians tool-box. When high unemployment levels are seen as a problem one of the ways to make the figures look better is to move people off on to non employment related benefits. And when high unemployment figures are less of a problem, upping the numbers by reducing the up-take of more costly benefits is the easy thing to do.
  "It's been rising well ahead of any other gauge you might make about illness, sickness, disability or for that matter, general trends in society".
  This is a quote from IDS, but I am not sure what it means as it is something that could be said about anything and elsewhere more bold statements have been made about cost savings.
  
  Any reduction in this or other benefits will certainly reduce the cash-flow within a community and reduce employment prospects and earnings for people and businesses locally. It will also put a large amount of money ATOS's way. [I have had some experience of an ATOS health/benefit check and found them (one doctor anyway) to be reasonable and professional.]
  
  I doubt that this 'drive' for savings will find any actual savings, with or without factoring-in ATOS's cost. Nevertheless as the idea is being sold as a saving exercise pressure will be brought to bear ultimately on many who can least bear it.
  A pay rise for MP's will be the next idea...all these tough decisions etc. etc.

Report Post

Your Name

Reason