There's a media frenzy going on here in the UK right now, the press are convinced that anyone on sickness benefit is obviously faking it and is fast turning the rest of the population against us. You only have to read comments left by readers of such press to realise that.
It turns out that everyone on Incapacity benefit is to be re-tested from 2011 (although it's already being trialled in two areas.) The new ConDem government is also targeting those claiming DLA with a view of reducing the number of claimants by twenty per cent.
So now disabled people everywhere are gearing up for more endless appeals and form filling, despite having already been tested (numerous times in some cases) and already having won such appeals. The untrained (by that I mean non medically qualified) staff of Atos even have the power to ignore years of medical evidence and consultants recommendations.
Those of us living with (several) chronic conditions are not going to 'get better.' People with missing limbs aren't going to wake up one morning to find those limbs have miraculously grown back. Blind people won't regain their vision. A deaf person will always be deaf, yet those are the people this crackdown will affect most.
I am diagnosed with the following Chronic conditions: Fibromyalgia, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME,) Asthma, Irritable bowel syndrome, Non allergic Rhinitis, Constant Migraines, Allergy to dairy produce. I also need B12 jabs every two weeks.
In the past few months, blood cultures at a local hospital found I also have permanently active glandular fever, that activates itself at the drop of a hat.
I have been told there is nothing more medically that can be done, there is no cure. Life has become about survival rather than living.
Gissa job anyone?
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