Blog: Department for Snakes and Ladders?

[Andy]

I’m exactly the same as anyone else who’s gathered up a lifetime of training and experience. I have a lot of skills. People come to me for advice. They offer me work. They offer me money to do that work.

And I can do the work, but it makes me ill. I don’t mind; I’ve always been ill, and I love my work. I just have to stop every now and again till I get better, then I can do some more.

Now that I’m older, those pauses have got longer. I might work for five months and have to stop for another four. The trouble is that when the income stops, the bills don’t. I live alone, so I have to claim benefits.

When I do get ill, it can be sudden and severe. One day I can be leading a seminar, the next I can’t fetch a bowl of cereal without help. What I need at this point is a benefit system that that can cushion me during those down times, and enable me to get back to work again as soon as my health allows. Instead I’m faced with a disability benefit system that appears to be based on bizarre assumptions:

http://inclusionproject.org.uk/guest-post/department-for-snakes-and-ladders/

 

[Trish]

So sad, so depressing, so true.

 

[Jenny TipsforME]

The most recent Chronic Illness Inclusion Project post sparked discussion on social media as well as the site itself:

http://inclusionproject.org.uk/soci...abled-is-there-a-distinction-between-the-two/

 

[Andy]

The most recent Chronic Illness Inclusion Project post sparked discussion on social media as well as the site itself:

http://inclusionproject.org.uk/soci...abled-is-there-a-distinction-between-the-two/

Thanks Jenny, posted that one here, https://www.s4me.info/threads/blog-...-is-there-a-distinction-between-the-two.3916/

 

[TiredSam]

That article rang a lot of bells and made me feel very uncomfortable.