Are you on Disability?

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You sound like you have a good attitude here, but the taxpayers aren't the only ones that suffer if a lot of people go on disability. besides, the money only has value within the society because those that have it can find others willing to work for it. As the number of workers dwindle, demand goes up, and supply goes down, making it cost more, and they have to put in more effort. If everyone went on it, the money would become worthless within the country. It only has value outside because people inside see it as being worth something. So any way you look at it, disability fraud or greed helps to cause inflation. Obviously, one person alone won't make a dent. A million could REALLY sting.

Still, if you can't work, and are willing to, and are on disability and reasonable, nobody can really fault you for it.

why is that?
are the forms being filled out correctly? if so,what if got some organisation to help with them? it can be to do with how things have been written,have heard that is why a lot of people are refused on first try as not everyone is able to write about the bad things.


think it's the same thing but am get disability living allowance-high rate care and mobility component,and income support with the disability component.
am unable to work in a traditional sense.
parents,sister,social worker,previous tutors and home staff have been trying for a long time to get am a day a week doing voluntary work outdoors with horses or cats-in a place where there is next to no noise,but none of the places are suitable,they're MD inducing,too far away and won't take am on for risk reasons even though have at the least one to one support from home anyway.
it's not really fair that am unable to do this,as it is perfect for am and they would be getting something out of it to because am strong and am dedicated,have all stopped looking for a place at the moment due to too many changes going on,but are still going to be searching for somewhere suitable once new home is decided on,and routine settled into [probably next year the way it's looking].

I've never been on disability or recieved an unemployment check. I've worked plenty of jobs that were beneath me.

Im on DLA but only for personal care as my mum looks after me as she does most of the housework but i do work full tym n im entitled 2 do that as my employment support worker tolded me that its not a problem at all.

I don't think I need it right now but I have a history of shutting down for months at a time.. where I can't work or go to school. Because I have psychological problems on top of the AS I am more susceptible to extended "meltdowns". So I might need it in the future.

Hopefully I'll be on it soon it'll help me get out more and there for I can try and become more social and not so alone which will hopefully make me less depressed. A wonderful woman from an organisation called life works is helping me on every step of the way which is great has I'd have no idea what I was doing and I would hate the stress of it all.

The main goal is to get me back into work but it could take a while to find a suitable job.

Am on Incapacity support.
Hoping to do a NVQ in care work or something and get into that again as although it is poorly paid and not as high as I could achieve(supposedly), I loved working with elderly people. Theatre was too hectic for me, though I did love it.. it ended in a kind of breakdown.

I think it is a lot easier here in the Uk to get support from the government. A lot of forms, but with a doctors sick note and a check of bank account, it is generally given. Currently it is about £83 a week.

It sometimes isn't about working jobs "beneath you". In my case (I haven't gotten it but desperately need it), I cannot keep a job. I am in college hoping an education will get me the jobs I could possibly stay at. I lose my jobs because of meltdowns (rare but it's happened), because I cannot maintain eye contact (hard when being a cashier or waitress), or because I'm just "weird". I am trying so hard, but no one around here cares about anything but themselves. I try to explain my disabilities and I get lectured to "get over it". Would you tell a person with no legs to "get over it" and learn to walk? That is unfair. With the sensory, physical, emotional, cognitive, and psychological issues, this disability is a horrible nightmare for anyone who is less than high functioning.
In the case of those needing it, who is to judge on here without full information who deserves it and who doesn't; who can work and who cannot? I cannot drive well, especially at night due to severe fears of driving, making working hard. I cannot handle people screaming or yelling at me (no fast food...it always eventually happens, though I still try), nor can I work in cramped quarters due to need for space (waitressing, my current job, is a nightmare, causing severe sensory and emotional issues). I feel as though it is literally killing me. How do those slamming people getting disability suggest I "cope" with this? I have 5 kids. I'm in college full time. I am a wife. I work as a waitress. I am falling apart and having more and more meltdowns every day. I am terrified eventually I won't be able to function. What do you all suggest someone in this position do? Suffer and starve until we die?

nope