Very good idea and work from Disabled People Against Cuts here:
Soon, the Department for Work and Pensions will releasing its Annual Report.
Iain Duncan Smith and his henchministers will no doubt be touring the TV studios to deliver more propaganda about worklessness and the “workshy” and so on. Plenty of this will be made up as usual.
Disabled People Against Cuts has decided to celebrate the release of the DWP Annual Report by releasing a report of their own.
It is a report into how the DWP and DWP Ministers have made claims which are simply untrue. DPAC has selected 35 claims and and found clear evidence that these claims have no basis in the facts.
Highlights (if you can call them that) include IDS claims like:
“On average every week there are half a million new jobs coming through at the job centre.” A Full Fact investigation came up with a series of figures that suggested the number was substantially lower.
“These figures show that the benefit cap is already a success and actively encouraging people back to work.” In response, Channel 4’s Factcheck said: “In order to know how effective the policy had been, we would need to know the rate at which people on benefits worth more than £26,000 went into work before the letter announcing the changes was sent, and compare it to after the letter was received. But those figures aren’t available. The DWP doesn’t collect them. The Institute for Fiscal Studies, or the Work Foundation, both of which have researched employment, unemployment and benefits, didn’t have them either.”
There are plenty more of these “Iain Duncan Smith facts” – read the full DPAC report here
When you next see Iain Duncan Smith on the TV News, ask yourself – is he lying? or is he simply making it up out of thin air again?
Answer: lying.
I would just like 5 minutes to state to media or tv the facts of this system of which I can state I am living prove of how it works c’mon 29 years paying in on an untreated heartblock shortfall ni not affording me income and yet 6 paces away a scammer got his put through atos deemed fit for work then after atos got back pay based on 10 years ni paid in trouble is it was dwp who had paid it for him they haven’t a clue decent people are penalised time ids started on the real scammers not people proven as disabled as medics state I had all my evidence 5 years ago I have cytoxic drugs the lot and yet since getting sick kept with even my air space limited I know of one national newspaper who will print my story when this over I want it everywhere perish the thought another endures the hell I have had at what exists I committed no crime at what is termed abuse cruelty and discrimination of me what for functioning as a decent person for 49 years on an untreated heart block leaving me as I am today words fail me