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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Dominic Littlewood's programme this morning about benefit cheats?

There was a woman on, who was working as an escort. She owned 5 houses, and had £43000 in her bank account.

She was jailed for 2 months and had to sell all her assets because they were deemed the proceeds of her dishonesty.

Apparently she earned up to £1000 a night when she chose to work. She rented out 4 of her houses and lived in the other one with her daughter.

When they showed her photo at the end of the programme I was shocked to see a very, very ordinary looking woman, and am just wondering how she could earn £1000 a night?

She certainly didn't have model looks, so perhaps she did "special" things, lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Did you take notes? I'll be asking questions later, could do with a few extra bob this week.

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

No but saw on the news that only 7% of people on ill health benefit are truly unfit for work.

not sure of the breakdown but that's a scary figure..

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By *obbytupperMan
over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley

Wait five minutes, the offers will be rolling in Laine.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"No but saw on the news that only 7% of people on ill health benefit are truly unfit for work.

not sure of the breakdown but that's a scary figure.."

Yeah, saw that on the news, but my _iew is that they need to do spontaneous spot checks, because we regularly hear about cheats playing sports, running or working when they have been checked and examined numerous times.

I'm sure most would agree that 7% is a low estimate, unless I'm doing my fellow man a disservice

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

I had to listen twice, I thought they said 70%

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No but saw on the news that only 7% of people on ill health benefit are truly unfit for work.

not sure of the breakdown but that's a scary figure.."

I read something today about atos who assess people on benefits for the DWP. They ask claimants a series of questions such as 'do you look after pets'

the answers are tapped into a computer and the computer makes the decisions.

One man had terminal lung cancer and he took all his medical records but they didn't look at them and just asked the computer based questions.his benefit was cut, and a few weeks later he was attached to a ventilator... He died a few weeks after that. 160 thousand people have appealed their decisions and won their case

Atos cost the government £100m a year

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By *oddyWoman
over a year ago

between havant and chichester

watch it every morning

thought she would have got longer all the benifets she was claiming for.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"watch it every morning

thought she would have got longer all the benifets she was claiming for."

I thought that too. The guy on yesterday was jailed for 2yrs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ive worked since I was 16 and have a chronic knee problem. Im not allowed any benefits because I am self-employed and have to 'save for a rainy day'. Seriously thats their stance and i can't help thinking what about all of my contributions PRE self employment - but thats for another debate.

I know some people swing the lead and need to be ed out of the system but if I want to have an active day while Im suffering a flare up... I take loads of different painkillers etc get through that day and suffer for days afterwards. It becomes a way of life. How do you quantify chronic pain that can be controlled to a certain extent but can flare up out of the blue and leave you crippled for months?

The wrong people are targetted anyone suffering from cancer should be retired through ill health - end of. If they get better all well and good. Either way nobody going through that should be worrying about income. No matter what they can achieve physically on a day to day basis they need to be taken out of the potential workforce - same as a lot of other conditions. The lack of common sense floors me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No but saw on the news that only 7% of people on ill health benefit are truly unfit for work.

not sure of the breakdown but that's a scary figure..

I read something today about atos who assess people on benefits for the DWP. They ask claimants a series of questions such as 'do you look after pets'

the answers are tapped into a computer and the computer makes the decisions.

Atos cost the government £100m a year

I recently had an ATOS medical and have appealed so they sent me a copy of a dossier of things that I was assessed on but had not been told about at the medical, for example how neatly I was dressed and I was clean?

I was told they are paid a sum of money for each person they strike off the sickness benefit.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No but saw on the news that only 7% of people on ill health benefit are truly unfit for work.

not sure of the breakdown but that's a scary figure.."

I've heard that it was under 10% before. It makes you wonder how so many get away with it.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

"No but saw on the news that only 7% of people on ill health benefit are truly unfit for work.

not sure of the breakdown but that's a scary figure.."

From a very scary government.....

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Perhaps one of the other channels (C4 maybe?) should do a Dominic style show about how the BBC, which is funded with license payers money, wastes so many millions of that money?

For example....the BBC outside broadcast department (sport) pay such ridiculous expenses that it is almost criminal.

The BBC host programmes like Dominics to take peoples mind off of the fact that they make so much money from license payers that they don't know how to spend it....

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

"No but saw on the news that only 7% of people on ill health benefit are truly unfit for work.

not sure of the breakdown but that's a scary figure..

From a very scary government....."

if it is anything in that region, it is scary.

but statistics are not really worth anything.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i agree there are benifit cheats i have reported some myself but i also know there are many who are b told they fit for work wen they clearly are not i work with vunerable adults and i have clients who have been told they fit for work and they SOOOOO are not , yet my opinion and that of my fellow therapists are over ruled by a 'medic' who has not seen our clients before yet have NOT taken into account anything thier medical team or ourselves think , there will always b those who cheat the system and there will never b a perfect way of assessing if a claiment is genuine but the current system is hitting the most vunerable in our society (apologies for spelling im on a mobile)

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

For example....the BBC outside broadcast department (sport) pay such ridiculous expenses that it is almost criminal.

just out of interest... which of the sports are we having a pop at????

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Perhaps one of the other channels (C4 maybe?) should do a Dominic style show about how the BBC, which is funded with license payers money, wastes so many millions of that money?

For example....the BBC outside broadcast department (sport) pay such ridiculous expenses that it is almost criminal.

The BBC host programmes like Dominics to take peoples mind off of the fact that they make so much money from license payers that they don't know how to spend it...."

Figures obtained through a Freedom of Information request showed that between December 2005 and November 2006:

- £18million was spent by the BBC on hotel bills.

- £15million went on air flights around the world.

- About £1million went on travel and hotel expenses for the corporation’s World Cup team, headed by Gary Lineker and Alan Hansen.

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

For example....the BBC outside broadcast department (sport) pay such ridiculous expenses that it is almost criminal.

just out of interest... which of the sports are we having a pop at????"

My other half works in OB (sport), it is a well known fact in those circles that BBC staff earn nearly Four times the industry standard for the same OB work.

So much so that it is more often than not the BBC staff that pick up the hotel bar tab for all the other OB bods who are often staying in the same hotels.

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