According to the Daily Mail only 51,000 people have been granted a benefit for long term disability or ill health in two years. That is crucial to fixing the problem. The most important action a government needs to take is not getting people off benefits. That is secondary. It is stopping them coming onto benefits.
Three-quarters of people who applied for new benefits for the long-term sick failed tests to prove they were too ill to work.
Out of about 840,000 who tried to obtain the £95-a-week Employment and Support Allowance, 640,000 were told they were fit for work, or withdrew their applications before they took the tests – suggesting they were ‘trying it on’.
Over the last 30 years the numbers on disability pensions, invalid benefits, etc have dramatically increased in many developed countries. There is now a concerted effort being made to reverse the trend. New Zealand needs to stop dragging the chain and start making similar efforts.
3 comments:
Good evening Lindsay,
In March this year you advised me to report my wife for claiming $600 per week DPB on top of the £1000 GBP I was sending her a month, in spite of the fact her sister was a Judge.
She was found no case to answer.
Not sure about the legalities, anon, but maybe if you were to send her GBP1,000 less $600, and sequester the remainder in a separate account, it would have the desired effect?
Anon,I remember our exchange but not all the details. How did you find out there was "no case to answer"?
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