Very well put, and well done for writing it. The whole way the system is run angers me so much.(I've been both lucky and highly privileged in my various spells as a claimant - but I know rather a lot of people who have been messed around by the system - including my mother who's been sent round the houses of the pension credit/Housing Benefit system, though thakfully it's been resolved for now.
New Labour keep talking about how they want to "help people into work", but the whole design of system is predicated not on helping people but on suspicion, on digging for the least hint of 'malingering' - and on paying out only when they absolutely have to.
And unfortunately, I fear such an approach is popular, in that a rather large proportion of the population have been convinced to place suspicion above solidarity, and to blame their economic problems on those below them in the pecking order rather than those above.
Well, hope you manage to keep the b*stards off your back for the while.
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Date: 2009-09-08 10:04 pm (UTC)New Labour keep talking about how they want to "help people into work", but the whole design of system is predicated not on helping people but on suspicion, on digging for the least hint of 'malingering' - and on paying out only when they absolutely have to.
And unfortunately, I fear such an approach is popular, in that a rather large proportion of the population have been convinced to place suspicion above solidarity, and to blame their economic problems on those below them in the pecking order rather than those above.
Well, hope you manage to keep the b*stards off your back for the while.