http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/09/08/this-attack-on-incapacity-benefit-is-bad-for-the-health-of-the-sick/ News, features and comment from Britain's left-wing magazine Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:17:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/09/08/this-attack-on-incapacity-benefit-is-bad-for-the-health-of-the-sick/comment-page-1/#comment-4395 Keith O'Reilly Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:08:14 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/09/08/this-attack-on-incapacity-benefit-is-bad-for-the-health-of-the-sick/#comment-4395 A few Carol. You DID have a choice before going onto incapacity benefits... you could have got another job, perhaps one with less stress levels. You don't state in your article what work you did and you seemed to make an assumption that you WOULD have had your money stopped when on JSA. This is not the case. You MAY lose your entitlements to JSA is you make yourself voluntarily unemployed but the rules allow for flexibility especially around "good cause". If your position was so untenable that you HAD to leave any decision maker employed by DWP would have looked upon that fairly favourable. As it is now, I suspect that as you are getting £86 per week and not getting help with prescriptions you have taken the very clever step of stating you are INCAPABLE of work. This then gives you unlimited benefits regardless of income. May I suggest you find work as a journalist or political activist as your article above clearly demonstrates ability in both? A few Carol. You DID have a choice before going onto incapacity benefits… you could have got another job, perhaps one with less stress levels. You don’t state in your article what work you did and you seemed to make an assumption that you WOULD have had your money stopped when on JSA. This is not the case. You MAY lose your entitlements to JSA is you make yourself voluntarily unemployed but the rules allow for flexibility especially around “good cause”. If your position was so untenable that you HAD to leave any decision maker employed by DWP would have looked upon that fairly favourable. As it is now, I suspect that as you are getting £86 per week and not getting help with prescriptions you have taken the very clever step of stating you are INCAPABLE of work. This then gives you unlimited benefits regardless of income. May I suggest you find work as a journalist or political activist as your article above clearly demonstrates ability in both?

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