Drug addicts and alcoholics: 3bn increase.

[Sweetpea]

Behind £3bn increase in disability benefit

Disability benefits are costing taxpayers an extra £3.1billion a year under Labour - and a major factor is a massive rise in the number of claimants who are drug addicts and alcoholics, according to newly released documents.
Over the past ten years, the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) budget has soared from £5.7billion to £8.8billion a year - enough to build 20 new 'super hospitals'.

And papers released under the Freedom of Information Act disclose that the number of drug addicts and alcoholics claiming the £60-a-week payment has risen five-fold, from 3,000 in 1997 to almost 17,000 last year.
The figures also reveal:
• Claimants suffering from ' psychosis' - a form of mental illness often caused by smoking cannabis - leapt from 63,000 to 148,000.
• The claim of 'back pain - not specified' has more than doubled from 56,000 to 123,000, costing the taxpayer an extra £291million.
• The number of deaf people in the UK has almost tripled from 13,000 to 34,600, costing a total of £79million.
• Claimants citing 'learning difficulties' rose from 182,000 to 282,000 - a leap from £532million to £781million.
Critics have claimed that checks on claimants are not sufficiently stringent and that criminals have targeted the benefit.

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1030237/Drug-addicts-alcoholics-3bn-increase-disability-benefit.html

Critics have claimed that checks on claimants are not sufficiently stringent and that criminals have targeted the benefit.

You bet.

[terrywit]

stop paying scum not to work?

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

You bet.

You can get dissability for incurable gambliong as well. It is seenas a "mental illness". Two lads in Boghall lived on it.

[poppy]

this amazes me, I have two friends now with disabilities that have the devil of a time just getting what they need, one with motor neurone disease the other with MS.
They have to fill in forms hat reach from here to next week, they have home checks medical reports, it is endless.
How do these self abusers get everything so easy when it is soooo hard for hose with real problems

[Sweetpea]

MND, I feel for that person. No worse disease.

I know of a few, but ONE example in Wallasey.

He is a trained scaffolder and hod carrier/bricky. He had an accident where he lost a lung, one of his arms up to the elbow, and a foot.

The dole said he was "fit to carry out his normal occupation".

The accident happened twenty years ago, and to this day, he can NOT get dissability benefit.

Oakdale Road in seacombe, I can give you the house number as well if "someone" thinks I am lying.

[Churchill]

Originally Posted by terrywit

stop paying scum not to work?

But then you'd have a surplus of useless arsehole civil servants who would have to be sacked. Now who wants to do that to their core voters?

[terrywit]

Originally Posted by Churchill

But then you'd have a surplus of useless arsehole civil servants who would have to be sacked. Now who wants to do that to their core voters?

so unemployemnt keeps people in jobs........

[Bruv]

I can give you the house number as well if "someone" thinks I am lying.

Heaven forbid

Originally Posted by terrywit

so unemployemnt keeps people in jobs........

AYE!

That's whay the Dole could not give a SHIT if you find work or not. If they were good at their job THEY would be the only ones signing on at the end of the month.