As a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who works with many people on benefits nationally, let me truth-check #Dispatches: - Benefits are grossly inadequate - The system is dehumanising - Invisible disabilities are as valid as visible ones. Stop the cruelty. Uplift #benefits. - ThreadSky

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shrinkatlarge.bsky.social • 91 days ago

As a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who works with many people on benefits nationally, let me truth-check #Dispatches:

- Benefits are grossly inadequate
- The system is dehumanising
- Invisible disabilities are as valid as visible ones.

Stop the cruelty. Uplift #benefits.

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sarahjanemassey1.bsky.social•90 days ago

I second this. I worked for DWP for 34 years, the last 10 on Disability benefits. It's definitely a nightmare to claim, especially after 14 years of tory. I spend most of my retirement helping people to claim.

nursemaia.bsky.social•90 days ago

Thank you for using your experience amd time to do this - I'm sure you are making a huge difference and I applaud you 👏 😘

hypernormals.bsky.social•90 days ago

yep, yep, and yep

mo-fitzgerald.bsky.social•90 days ago

In a Home Office report released y'day, the baseline starting figure spent on sending 4 volunteers to Rwanda is £715 million.
The government has only made a small dent in compensation to subpostmaster/ mistresses at £280 million.
Then there's infected blood and Windrush victims.
Who benefits??!

dickiedavies.bsky.social•90 days ago

Prof David Donaldson the chairman of the Supplementary Benefits Commission made the point that benefits were not to high wages were too low. That was in the late 70s

stonia2.bsky.social•90 days ago

Typical and ancient middle class hatred of the poor. I was disabled by covid and failed with pip application because the system does not understand that there can be a delay -A DELAY- in symptoms after exertion. Fuck this country.

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