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ATOS Strike again

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Billy
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Richard III found fit for work !!!

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Couldnt he be exempt due to mental health descriptors? Surely anyone who thinks it is reasonable to trade his kingdom for a horse needs help.

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I was all hopeful then for a second. If ATOS went on strike, maybe some sensible decisions could be made by, well, I don’t know, a Magic 8 Ball or something. Can’t be worse.

Dave Coughlan
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Apparently he’s not happy about the lack of cold weather payments either.

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Mark steele said that since approximately half of claimants win their appeals it would save Atos much more time and money if they simply flipped a coin at the Working capability Assessments. Same outcome!

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Billy - 05 February 2013 07:47 AM

Richard III found fit for work !!!

given his inclination to have people murdered wouldn’t he qualify under Reg 29, If he was found fit to go back to being a king wouldn’t it put all sorts of people at risk!

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Now he’s been dug up, I heard Richard’s been given over 500 year’s worth of fixed penalty parking tickets too by the local authority.

Paul Treloar
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They’ll be having his Motability car and Blue Badge off him, that’s for sure.

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Paul Treloar - 05 February 2013 12:24 PM

They’ll be having his Motability car and Blue Badge off him, that’s for sure.

On the contary Paul, there is no evidence at all that he has been able to walk anywhere since the late fifteenth century

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But he might get a free bus pass as he can only ride a horse.

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In that case he will definitely not get ESA. The new regs state that all aids and adaptations that can be used to fulfil a descriptor must be used. As he can clearly mobilise on his horse then he is Knackered. And we all know being dead is no longer an excuse. Can we use the machine that Dr Frankenstein used to bring life to his monster as an aid and adaptation to get dead people back on to JSA?

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And as he’s dead then he really is screwed because he cannot, from time to time, benefit from enhanced facilities for locomotion.

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Apparently, the Tesco down the road knew he’d been there all the time…“Unexpected article in the car park” .

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Bedroom tax hits him though, under-occupying public car park.

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Pete C - 05 February 2013 12:27 PM

On the contary Paul, there is no evidence at all that he has been able to walk anywhere since the late fifteenth century

You’re forgetting the imaginary aids rules that apply now - if there was no car/chariot found alongside, he clearly walked to the car park.

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And, there’s a right old winter of discontent going on outside our office window I can tell ya!