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The papers are always quick to point out how much some of these people manage to get on benefits just because they are too I'll to work, I am not talking about scrounges that just avoid work and claim to be sick when they are not, but they never talk about the other side, when someone plays by all the rules and even though they cannot work because of their disabilities the rules are used to Not pay them a penny, where are the papers then.
Yes I am one of them, I was self employed when I became disabled and for the self employed your sick and disability payments are not paid through the national insurance you pay so it has to be paid via income support and although the amounts paid are the same there is one huge difference between sick pay and income support and that huge difference is that income support is means tested, so in my case as my wife works I am disqualified from claiming income support, so we have to live on her minimum wage job, which is a hell of a lot less than I should be getting in disability payments. Now if only I could persuade her to give up her job, but no for some reason she likes it. Thisnisnwhy I get so angry when the likes of David Cameron says he is going to cap benefits to £25,000. Oh how I would love to get as much as £25,000 at work let alone on benefits.
So the NHS paid for my Bypass, i tell you I damned well earned it and it was the least they could do with all the benefits they have saved from me.
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