A tribunal has told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to pay nearly £50,000 in damages to a Deaf man after repeatedly failing to provide him with the interpreters he needed for job-related…
Things are no better stateside. To get social security disability takes years, and a lawyer who will take a portion of your back pay settlement when finally awarded.
And of course one can’t be earning money during the process.
Even with private short term disability coverage through employer, while it was more efficient than that, I still barely had the strength to get through it just to get partially paid for 10 hrs a week for a few months, in hopes that I can regroup, get things back together, and be able to make it through forty hour weeks.
Since that’s an external company, and our HR and payroll is a different external company, now I have to stay on the latter to make sure a) they get the memo and b) I actually get the pay in question.
What was said internally is absolutely brutal.
How many others lack the energy, strength, or (bs) “social skills” to work through this?
Might actually result in change.
My own lived experience is that the blind/deaf orgs who pursue these things should be a model for other orgs serving folks w/ other disabilities.
As a legally blind person also my brother.
DWP really is crappy. You ask for help filling thing in. They out right say they can’t.
You are literally forced to insist. My brother literally sat at the desk with his guide dog. And said I am not leaving untill I get help.
This was when moving him from DLA to PIP. When it first happened.
Disable people should not be forced to fight for their rights. By the same government responsible for enforcing the laws.
You are entirly correct many lack the energy and strength.
Things are no better stateside. To get social security disability takes years, and a lawyer who will take a portion of your back pay settlement when finally awarded.
And of course one can’t be earning money during the process.
Even with private short term disability coverage through employer, while it was more efficient than that, I still barely had the strength to get through it just to get partially paid for 10 hrs a week for a few months, in hopes that I can regroup, get things back together, and be able to make it through forty hour weeks.
Since that’s an external company, and our HR and payroll is a different external company, now I have to stay on the latter to make sure a) they get the memo and b) I actually get the pay in question.
Seriosly
Why would anyone expect the states to be better. You have a reputation for cruelty towards your own citizens.
Honestly the states is not the part of the world most brits expect anyone to aspire towards. Its who we warn people to avoid.