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Elite Member
It is as if staff at the Department for Work and Pensions were trying to commit vocational suicide, in pale emulation of the lengths to which they drive their ‘customers’.
Following on from yesterday’s article on the DWP’s sickening response to the latest Freedom of Information request on incapacity claimant deaths come two accounts of the heartlessness of the Department’s staff.
The first is from our old friend Pride’s Purge, and concerns a letter from the DWP to a woman who suffers with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer.
It states, in very poor English: “On whether you have contributed to your medical condition. We have now decided that you did contribute to your medical condition.”
This is physically impossible and DWP staff, who are not medically qualified, had no right to suggest otherwise. The lady’s boyfriend was so enraged by the incident that he posted the letter on Facebook and you can see it below.
The second is from the Blue Annoyed blog, and runs as follows:
“A sick and disabled man attend[ed] Newcastle JCP to use the phones to make an enquiry when he was attacked by [a] G4S guard for using his mobile when they refused his request… The JCPs are now removing telephones.
“It is now policy that you are intimidated BY G4S security to turn off your mobiles after many used them to film maladministration of JCP staff.
“At the time of writing this blog a complaint has gone in to the manager of this JCP and the police have been informed.”
There’s more, but you should go to Blue Annoyed to read it.
It seems the gentleman involved had previously been made homeless, and his story had appeared in the New Statesman.
He made a video of the attack, using his mobile, which you can see here:G4s Security Guard Attacks Disabled Man In Jobcentre on Vimeo
If anyone tells you that benefit claimants get what they deserve, show them this article.
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DWP limbo: We ask Job Centres ‘How low will you go’? | Vox Political
Following on from yesterday’s article on the DWP’s sickening response to the latest Freedom of Information request on incapacity claimant deaths come two accounts of the heartlessness of the Department’s staff.
The first is from our old friend Pride’s Purge, and concerns a letter from the DWP to a woman who suffers with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer.
It states, in very poor English: “On whether you have contributed to your medical condition. We have now decided that you did contribute to your medical condition.”
This is physically impossible and DWP staff, who are not medically qualified, had no right to suggest otherwise. The lady’s boyfriend was so enraged by the incident that he posted the letter on Facebook and you can see it below.
The second is from the Blue Annoyed blog, and runs as follows:
“A sick and disabled man attend[ed] Newcastle JCP to use the phones to make an enquiry when he was attacked by [a] G4S guard for using his mobile when they refused his request… The JCPs are now removing telephones.
“It is now policy that you are intimidated BY G4S security to turn off your mobiles after many used them to film maladministration of JCP staff.
“At the time of writing this blog a complaint has gone in to the manager of this JCP and the police have been informed.”
There’s more, but you should go to Blue Annoyed to read it.
It seems the gentleman involved had previously been made homeless, and his story had appeared in the New Statesman.
He made a video of the attack, using his mobile, which you can see here:G4s Security Guard Attacks Disabled Man In Jobcentre on Vimeo
If anyone tells you that benefit claimants get what they deserve, show them this article.
Follow me on Twitter: @MidWalesMike
Join the Vox Political Facebook page.
DWP limbo: We ask Job Centres ‘How low will you go’? | Vox Political
