Free £50 notes
What have the following got in common? :
- A “free” cheque for £50
- A chronic disabling illness
- A Mercedes CLK sports car.
Mary was thrilled and then bemused and then baffled by an offer of a “free” £50 payment for signing a few documents and returning them to Remploy. Fortunately, Mary is one of those irritatingly honest people who does not take things at face value. Read her story here.
Mary's Remploy story is then followed up by Wat Tyler at Burning our Money who reveals all about the Mercedes CLK, and the sleezy way Remploy (another government quango) is trying to fiddle the books to justify its existence.
The posts by Mary and Wat are both quite long. That’s the trouble with Labour sleaze. It is so buried in bureaucracy that most of it never surfaces. Persevere. And then sit back and think. If this is going on at Remploy, which costs the taxpayer a “mere” £2.5 million a week, what do you think is happening in the NHS with its current budget of £2 billion a week?
Labels: government scams, political dishonesty, Remploy, sleeze
7 Comments:
Very interesting. I believe I may have had a similar letter in the last fortnight, but was too ill to deal with it and binned it as I do with most things that aren't absolute necessities to cope with (I don't actually have a job/not well enough, but the local agency for getting disabled back to work do have my details - I've had nothing really to do with them as too ill, so I just binned it.). I wish I still had it now, I'd send you a scan.
Hmmmmm My registered disabled wife recently found herself without gainful employment (other than preparing my evening meal of course!) :-) and I suggested that Remploy may be able to help, so she made an appointment and went along to be told that she is not disabled enough for them to help her.... "Excuse me?" She cannot walk 10 yards without either sitting or falling down, and would then certainly be in pain for the rest of the day - enough anyway to qualify for full disability allowance (and a blue badge) so what are Remploy there for then? Especially if they are as desperate as this article would suggest?
Or can we expect a letter to arrive in the near future offering a pay off to her too I wonder? I will let you know if we do...
Steve
same as handing out money to smokers in Scotland to take the nicotine patches, equally bollocks
http://notdrrant.blogspot.com/
You give me far too much credit. It's not honesty. It's fear. After three years entangled in the system I'm no longer naive enough to believe that people like the DWP are there to help when you're up a certain creek...
Mary said...
You give me far too much credit. It's not honesty. It's fear. After three years entangled in the system I'm no longer naive enough to believe that people like the DWP are there to help when you're up a certain creek...
*****
Is that like the famous top 3 lie "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you"
And, if you ever find your self up that creek again, apparently salvation is at hand....
http://tinyurl.com/6l3bzy
Steve
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