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As with everything all the systems are overwhelmed so any checks are a box ticking exercise because nobody has time to do anymore. Think about what happens if you go to your GP with mental health issues. Chances are they will dish out a pill and that's it. When I eventually got referred for a...

Address the problem of fraudulent claims rather than saying we're taking benefits off everyone and that will force people back to work. There's not an easy fix here. We've had years of cutting everything and now we're seeing the impact. Its just another 'stop the boats' type thing that people...

From the same report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-64874355

But its not like those claiming mental health issues in the 18-24 age bracket are making it up. Unless you think the huge increase in things like self harm and suicide attempts are just so they can claim benefits, which I find unlikely. You can't remove funding for mental health services and...

Maybe its a longer term thing. Could well be that the feedback from the higher end clients was they were put off by a load of coked up idiots being in corporate. Maybe there's a 3-5 year plan to increase occupancy at the higher prices. Maybe he wants some available for sale for individual games...

Looks like Dylan is coming to the CBS

This may be controversial but King isn't an idiot. He will have the data for the last season at the new prices, if his priority was 100% occupancy of corporate the prices would be lower. Clearly there is a push to make it more premium, and to be brutal, to keep out some of the people who were...

I reverse on to my drive and even then getting out is like Russian roulette. More often than not I have cars parked on the street overhanging my drive on both sides as there's not actually enough room to park on the street but they do it anyway. Along with someone parked right in front of me...

Cheers mate, not sure I'd say on the mend but I've not had a visit to hospital for a few weeks so that must be good 😂 It doesn't seem any great mystery to me why sickness benefits are increasing. We are an increasingly unhealthy nation. Some in obvious ways, like the obesity crisis, but also...

well at least he managed that

You can apply this to pretty much every public service.

this is not a public sector thing at all. I've worked in the private sector for years and every company I've worked for has had people who do fuck all and get away with it (not unusual that they are related to the owner!) or are always off sick. at my current company, where there's 7 people in...

Congratulations, you've just invented the benefits cap https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/benefit-cap/

People cling to this idea that there's huge numbers of people who just don't want to work but the evidence just isn't there. I'm sure there is a tiny minority that don't but in reality most people want to contribute to society. When there has been large scale UBI trials one of the findings is...

Tesco's were literally putting out job ads where the pay was in benefits

the one group of benefits recipients we did do it for, and who it was a success for, was those with learning disabilities. So of course those schemes were scrapped.

At least we don't have to worry about him leaving to pursue an acting career!

We tried this a few years back, it was called work fare and it was a complete disaster. The end result was essentially big employers enrolled in the scheme replacing low paid staff with people on the work fare scheme knowing the government would pay them rather than the employer. So it was...

That's great if you're renting, although its capped isn't it and often below what you're actually paying in the real world. I don't exactly live in a mansion but the housing benefit cap would be about £400 a month less than rents round here. And of course that assumes everyone who suddenly...

When people talk about average train driver pay you have to factor in that you're talking about an industry which has built up an operational model entirely reliant on overtime. There is a massive shortage of drivers. Anyone who uses the trains regularly will be able to tell you about...