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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Today's Metro newspaper carries a report of how a man with no arms had his benefits stopped after being told "Crawl to work, you've still got arms" 
Something really has to be done about the way that disabled people are being treated by this Government. |
There was a rather satirical mention of this case on last Friday's 'The Last Leg'
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Originally Posted by denphone
So one has to have two recording bits of equipment and it can only be done with a CD or cassette which frankly went out with the ark.
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Exactly. The Radio 4 programme for the blind 'In Touch' and the consumer programme 'You & Yours' came to the same conclusion.
They are just being difficult & want to stop people recording what's really been said in these interviews.
Some of the discriminatory, rude and ignorant stereotyping has been outrageous, not to mention the discrepancies between what claimants remember and what the assessors wrote in the report when they finally got to read it.