Quote Originally Posted by jetengine View Post
Visa vi unfairly stripping people of their benefits --or at least those not so obvious that the media cant have a field day-- through manipulation of their internal scoring system and ignoring legitimate reasons for not turning up to meetings (Because funerals and hospitals are totally just casual things that can be rescheduled) leading to people dying in poverty or through excasperation of illness.

Anecdotally I know a gentleman who (on their 1/10 scoring system with 3 being the average for minimum benefits) scored an 8 due to his very serious mental health issues and having a permanently damaged spine. He was told he was fit to work. He spent nearly a year in anxiety and frustration trying to scrape enough money together to live in his one bedroom flat, all the while navigating the Benefits system, after two appeals it finally went to court where the Judge laughed in the Benefits guys face and said "This man clearly deserves his money" and had the whole thing solved in 5 minuites.

This has happened very often. The Benefits group essentially hopes that by using bureaucracy they can force people to not bother to fight for what they are owed.

My dad here in the USA had two artificial hips and an artificial shoulder and was scored 'fit to work' for his physically demanding job when he could barely walk and certainly could not get down easily on his hands and knees as was required for it.

He spent multiple years trying to get his disability and, exactly as in your case, it finally got in front of a judge who laughed in government's face and awarded him his disability.

These departments cultivate cultures of contempt for those they serve all too frequently and begin with the presumption of dishonesty. It is vile.