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Originally Posted by Hugh
Richard, please don’t talk bollocks.
My wife works at the DWP, and I often socialise with her work colleagues - whilst there are, like in any organisation, some horrible people, most of the people I have met have a great deal of sympathy and empathy for those claiming.
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Of course there is good and bad in any any organisation, but the organisational culture changed when David Cameron introduced his 'stricter benefits regime'.
Take a read of this:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...isabled-people
Some claimants have even been sanctioned for arriving at an appointment early, because they were afraid of being sanctioned for being late!
The DWP denied that staff had sanction targets to meet, until proof was discovered that this was an outright lie.
Oh and they now want access to peoples private medical records:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8797991.html