I’ve phoned Samaritans twice due to the DWP, doesn’t surprise me.
> The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted repeatedly breaching the Equality Act, after a disabled man was left needing hospital treatment three times for suicidal thoughts caused by months of failures by universal credit advisers and jobcentres.
> A legal document describes how George*, from east London, has been failed on scores of occasions by DWP staff working on its helplines and in its jobcentres.
> DWP has now admitted discriminating against him on numerous occasions.
After detailing the shockingly callous behaviour of the DWP, which appears on the evidence to suffer from institutional dickishness, the article quotes the successful claimant’s very credible concerns:
> If they are admitting they did this to me, why aren’t they looking at the system as a whole?
> I think this is happening to potentially thousands of other disabled people . . .
> There doesn’t seem to be any kind of remorse or action being taken to change the situation generally
> What’s it going to take for them to make those changes?
A general election at the very least, I suspect.
They have been long ignoring certain disabilities since forever. A friend of mine said that they told him to not declare his disability as it would worsen his chances of getting a job.
DWP wanted me as a disabled person in a wheelchair to prove that i was unfit for work, i couldnt even access their fucking office in my local council building as they had no ramps, i had a friend come with me who hauled my ass up their stairs and he carried my wheelchair and he rolled me in with a face redder than a tomato, he was louder than me and I was furious to the point of wanting to tell them to get fucked with razor wire. They wanted me to then go for an assessment 70 odd miles away, when I had no mode of transport besides lifts off of people or using community provided taxis…
Took me 8 months of argueing with evidence out the wazoo to prove i was unfit for work and for my claim to be backdated with proper pay being allocated, I was suicidal and can only imagine the countless others who have been discriminated against by these fucktards.
I hope there is a class action lawsuit opened against these fucks. christ almighty.
I had to phone DWP when they promised me petrol and clothes money for starting a new job, which never came through. A week into the job I had spent every penny I had on petrol and work clothes, but was unable to continue the job as I couldn’t afford petrol the next week, or food for that matter. Anyway I phoned demanding to know why in 3 weeks I still hadn’t received this money I had been promised, and why my “work coach” was refusing to respond to any messages I sent.
I tried to explain that I would have to quit my job immediately if I didn’t get the money as there is no other way for me to travel 28 miles each way without either petrol or train money, she just casually stated that it would be my choice to quit my job and I wouldn’t be eligible for benefits if I did so. I immediately responded that I think I’ll just go jump in the Clyde then. All of a sudden she snaps out of her disinterested lethargy to say “sorry sir now you’ve mentioned suicide I can’t continue the call with you”, and hung up.
They want you to commit suicide, actively trying to push people over the edge.
…”lead to” it is absolutely designed to break you. Then if you manage to get though all that they will try to break you again.
When i was sick with pancreatitis gallstones etc. I was made to prove i hadn’t lived at an address I hadn’t been at for 30 YEARS!!! and all correspondence including the ongoing claim originated from current address. it took 7 years to sort out and at the end of it they knocked off a year. saying my claim had started a year later then the dates I had a recording of them telling me the dates in. I gave up chasing the other monies. Its just too soul destroying
mental health diagnosis. Tough shit nil points for you.
It’s designed that way in the hopes you’ll off yourself before they have to pay you. I’ve been through the forms with mum, the humiliating assessments where they constantly lie on the form, the expectation for you to jump though their hoops at the drop of a hat, the assessors not knowing shit about the condition you’re talking about. I dread to think what is going to happen to my own form when the time comes as my own disability is worsening.
Most of the public shared the mindset of the government really, it’s only because they are now also on the receiving end of the same callousness that it’s become a problem.
The system is designed this way.
I’ve had support workers, mental health nurses, cmht sending letters, emails and speaking over the phone with the dwp. They have told them about my condition and how I find i can’t even leave the house with out support. Or that I cannot process or remember important information.
I have trouble processing information and so only to contact me by letter. They don’t. Still only send text telling me to login to UC and read my journal.
Also send texts messages telling me I MUST attend face to face appointments at Job center as part of claimant commitment.
But as I require assistance/someone with me at appointments I need enough time to be able to arrange this.
But they keep giving me text messages with less than 24 hours notice.
I am so sick of it. I get only standard care element of pip and basic UC for single person under 35. I can barely survive as it is without all the extra stuff they keep putting on me.
dwp told me that because i passed my gcses 15 YEARS AGO i can’t possibly be mentally ill now. also that the fact i know what i have been diagnosed with and what meds i take means i have no cognitive problems 🤷♀️ they will do everything in their power not to help.
Just the state of dwp under the fucking tories it could be this amazing service that actually helps people either in to work with actual support but no it’s slowly killing us off one by one
I live with a chronic illness that affects many aspects of my life. I have not even attempted applying for any form of disability payment after seeing the hell and stress they put my mother in law through with hers. Seems their sole intent is to cause as much grief as possible to those with disabilities rather than support!
I’ve been waiting for a year now to hear about my latest PIP decision – the torture and fear every day is too much. I dread my ESA coming back up for review – I’ve taken them to tribunal before, but don’t have the strength to do that again.
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They want us dead – I get it. We live in a blinkered spiteocracy where the suffering and misery caused to vulnerable people just does not matter.
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Oh, and I presented to my GP with persistent long lasting suicidal ideation. It took months to be “assessed”. I failed this assessment, and was discharged. I appealed, and failed again. I am literally telling them (as a patient with a long history of chronic mental illness, PTSD,dissociative disorder etc) that I think my life is at risk. They don’t care, no one ever does.
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I wish the powers that be would be honest – heck, create a home “kit” to use and off we go, I would gladly remove the burden of me, it’s what people want and I have nothing left in me to fight it. I am sick of the misery and suffering and don’t know I can do it much longer (this is not a statement of imminent intent).
Everyone blind to this systemic issue needs to watch Ken Loach’s ‘I, Daniel Blake’.
Absolutely appalling behaviour. A service that is not even accessible for the people it’s made for.
I think having any involvement with the DWP would lead anyone to suicidal thoughts. The way they treat people is an absolute farce.
I think some bloke wrote a song about this a year or so ago
But no charges against the staff.
They need to release their full information so we can get some justice.
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I’ve phoned Samaritans twice due to the DWP, doesn’t surprise me.
> The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted repeatedly breaching the Equality Act, after a disabled man was left needing hospital treatment three times for suicidal thoughts caused by months of failures by universal credit advisers and jobcentres.
> A legal document describes how George*, from east London, has been failed on scores of occasions by DWP staff working on its helplines and in its jobcentres.
> DWP has now admitted discriminating against him on numerous occasions.
After detailing the shockingly callous behaviour of the DWP, which appears on the evidence to suffer from institutional dickishness, the article quotes the successful claimant’s very credible concerns:
> If they are admitting they did this to me, why aren’t they looking at the system as a whole?
> I think this is happening to potentially thousands of other disabled people . . .
> There doesn’t seem to be any kind of remorse or action being taken to change the situation generally
> What’s it going to take for them to make those changes?
A general election at the very least, I suspect.
They have been long ignoring certain disabilities since forever. A friend of mine said that they told him to not declare his disability as it would worsen his chances of getting a job.
DWP wanted me as a disabled person in a wheelchair to prove that i was unfit for work, i couldnt even access their fucking office in my local council building as they had no ramps, i had a friend come with me who hauled my ass up their stairs and he carried my wheelchair and he rolled me in with a face redder than a tomato, he was louder than me and I was furious to the point of wanting to tell them to get fucked with razor wire. They wanted me to then go for an assessment 70 odd miles away, when I had no mode of transport besides lifts off of people or using community provided taxis…
Took me 8 months of argueing with evidence out the wazoo to prove i was unfit for work and for my claim to be backdated with proper pay being allocated, I was suicidal and can only imagine the countless others who have been discriminated against by these fucktards.
I hope there is a class action lawsuit opened against these fucks. christ almighty.
I had to phone DWP when they promised me petrol and clothes money for starting a new job, which never came through. A week into the job I had spent every penny I had on petrol and work clothes, but was unable to continue the job as I couldn’t afford petrol the next week, or food for that matter. Anyway I phoned demanding to know why in 3 weeks I still hadn’t received this money I had been promised, and why my “work coach” was refusing to respond to any messages I sent.
I tried to explain that I would have to quit my job immediately if I didn’t get the money as there is no other way for me to travel 28 miles each way without either petrol or train money, she just casually stated that it would be my choice to quit my job and I wouldn’t be eligible for benefits if I did so. I immediately responded that I think I’ll just go jump in the Clyde then. All of a sudden she snaps out of her disinterested lethargy to say “sorry sir now you’ve mentioned suicide I can’t continue the call with you”, and hung up.
They want you to commit suicide, actively trying to push people over the edge.
…”lead to” it is absolutely designed to break you. Then if you manage to get though all that they will try to break you again.
When i was sick with pancreatitis gallstones etc. I was made to prove i hadn’t lived at an address I hadn’t been at for 30 YEARS!!! and all correspondence including the ongoing claim originated from current address. it took 7 years to sort out and at the end of it they knocked off a year. saying my claim had started a year later then the dates I had a recording of them telling me the dates in. I gave up chasing the other monies. Its just too soul destroying
mental health diagnosis. Tough shit nil points for you.
It’s designed that way in the hopes you’ll off yourself before they have to pay you. I’ve been through the forms with mum, the humiliating assessments where they constantly lie on the form, the expectation for you to jump though their hoops at the drop of a hat, the assessors not knowing shit about the condition you’re talking about. I dread to think what is going to happen to my own form when the time comes as my own disability is worsening.
Most of the public shared the mindset of the government really, it’s only because they are now also on the receiving end of the same callousness that it’s become a problem.
The system is designed this way.
I’ve had support workers, mental health nurses, cmht sending letters, emails and speaking over the phone with the dwp. They have told them about my condition and how I find i can’t even leave the house with out support. Or that I cannot process or remember important information.
I have trouble processing information and so only to contact me by letter. They don’t. Still only send text telling me to login to UC and read my journal.
Also send texts messages telling me I MUST attend face to face appointments at Job center as part of claimant commitment.
But as I require assistance/someone with me at appointments I need enough time to be able to arrange this.
But they keep giving me text messages with less than 24 hours notice.
I am so sick of it. I get only standard care element of pip and basic UC for single person under 35. I can barely survive as it is without all the extra stuff they keep putting on me.
dwp told me that because i passed my gcses 15 YEARS AGO i can’t possibly be mentally ill now. also that the fact i know what i have been diagnosed with and what meds i take means i have no cognitive problems 🤷♀️ they will do everything in their power not to help.
Just the state of dwp under the fucking tories it could be this amazing service that actually helps people either in to work with actual support but no it’s slowly killing us off one by one
I live with a chronic illness that affects many aspects of my life. I have not even attempted applying for any form of disability payment after seeing the hell and stress they put my mother in law through with hers. Seems their sole intent is to cause as much grief as possible to those with disabilities rather than support!
I’ve been waiting for a year now to hear about my latest PIP decision – the torture and fear every day is too much. I dread my ESA coming back up for review – I’ve taken them to tribunal before, but don’t have the strength to do that again.
​
They want us dead – I get it. We live in a blinkered spiteocracy where the suffering and misery caused to vulnerable people just does not matter.
​
Oh, and I presented to my GP with persistent long lasting suicidal ideation. It took months to be “assessed”. I failed this assessment, and was discharged. I appealed, and failed again. I am literally telling them (as a patient with a long history of chronic mental illness, PTSD,dissociative disorder etc) that I think my life is at risk. They don’t care, no one ever does.
​
I wish the powers that be would be honest – heck, create a home “kit” to use and off we go, I would gladly remove the burden of me, it’s what people want and I have nothing left in me to fight it. I am sick of the misery and suffering and don’t know I can do it much longer (this is not a statement of imminent intent).
Everyone blind to this systemic issue needs to watch Ken Loach’s ‘I, Daniel Blake’.
Absolutely appalling behaviour. A service that is not even accessible for the people it’s made for.
I think having any involvement with the DWP would lead anyone to suicidal thoughts. The way they treat people is an absolute farce.
I think some bloke wrote a song about this a year or so ago
But no charges against the staff.
They need to release their full information so we can get some justice.