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Whether benefit entitlement for people with addictions or obesity should be linked to accepting treatment
I’d suggest that it’s less to do with revenue and more to do with affecting perception (propaganda), following the usual “benefits as lifestyle choice” rhetoric. Even though we know that financially welfare reform has made little difference to expenditure, I have noticed that the propaganda is actually working as more and more of our clients are referring to other claimants who are less deserving. Divide and conquer
Oh absolutely. The divide & rule thing is increasingly noticeable. It’s without doubt one of the most diabolically successful propaganda campaigns ever. I just hope and pray that eventually people start to wake up and smell the coffee as it were.
...or the bacon.
It’s official. Obesity is incurable.
Meanwhile, we have journalists making requests for case studies which are questionable if I am being kind.
Meanwhile, we have journalists making requests for case studies which are questionable if I am being kind.
Anyone fancy doing a FOI request to find out what involvement there was behind this request by DWP Communications staff and/or DWP’ Ministers’ Special Advisers?
Anyone fancy doing a FOI request to find out what involvement there was behind this request by DWP Communications staff and/or DWP’ Ministers’ Special Advisers?
It was Women’s Own journo apparently.
How much are the DWP paying them?
George Monbiot did an interesting comment on this in the Guardian recently.
Interestingly, they are still ‘analysing your feedback’ on this. 15 months on. Must have been a lot of feedback. Or have certain parties lost interest….?
Surely as the last post suggests, we have to make a clear distinction between benefits policy and health policy. The purpose of the benefits system is to ensure that anyone who has been medically assessed as unable to work receives the support they need and that this system is not abused. The purpose of the National Health Service, and of government policy on health is to cure people/improve their health /encourage them to live a healthy lifestyle. So interventions by someone in the Jobcentre Plus in the field of health sound positively dangerous to me - you wouldn’t have two different medical people treating the same patient (unless working in cooperation like the GP and consultant). So how can an unqualified person start making medical interventions?
Ruth