The idiocy continues. Just registered another client, Mr FW, who has worked continuously since 1963. He has diabetes and can't walk very far. He is 9 months off retirement. After having a period of 12 months on the sick due to his disabilities, he has been declared fit for work and is expected to apply for 6 jobs a week, and look for jobs within a 90 mile radius.
Our town is surrounded on 3 sides by the sea. Is he supposed to go for a job in the Irish Sea?? He is another victim of the glorious box-ticking exercise the DWP/JobCentre Plus has become. There is absolutely no way this man would ever be offered a job, because of his age and his ill health. It is an example of the abject futility of Iain Duncan Smith's Benefit Reforms. I'd love for someone like IDS or Cameron to spend a day in here, seeing what people have to go through, and to see how organisations such as us, who are pinched to the limit with funding cuts, are expected to take up the slack from Government funded organisations.
Its going to be a long day.
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