Published on 12, July, 2020
Looking at some recent stories about the DWP and benefits where they want to look at people’s bank accounts, potentially arresting people for alleged fraud (even if the DWP made a mistake and gave someone an overpayment) along with other recently announced proposed changes that make life more difficult for disabled people, even affecting state pensions, these draconian measures are a concerning move towards dystopia - having not had a post-diagnostic assessment myself following my autism diagnosis in 2021 at age 53 now, I have no idea what my disabled support needs are, including in employment and what employment options are the most suitable, so in the absence of such reports, it will be simply assumed by the DWP that I have no support needs and I will be forced into the next job available, regardless of suitability and without any regard to “reasonable adjustments” in that job role, where if I attempt to request same, even at an early stage, because I will be deemed to have obtained the job on false pretences even if I have declared my autism at the start, I will be very quickly silenced and told to “be quiet and stop your nonsense” by those who simply refuse to understand autism issues - we already know that adult autism support is virtually non-existent for those of us diagnosed later in life and also, in the current cost of living crisis in the U.K., businesses are closing down at an alarming rate, high streets are looking like ghost towns and this is even affecting the bigger chains, who are moving all of their operations online if not going out of business altogether - there needs to be a law requiring that post diagnostic assessments are a legal requirement - there has even been reports suggesting that the DWP itself is failing as they themselves cannot get suitable staff, who are overworked, some of these staff have autism and their reasonable adjustments have been taken away, sickness absence within the DWP is at crisis levels, suggesting that even the benefits system is collapsing
Don't worry too much.They are reffering to Pensioners.Bear in mind though, even on benefite, if you have saved over £ 5000 you have to declare it.Laws have to be passed first, don't lose any sleep over it.