Tashyboy
Please don’t ask to see my tatts 👍
Re the last sentence, I think you are being a tad unfair to yourself.
Working in coal mines, there were a small percentage of people who knew every scam going. There were genuine claimants re Dust, knackered knees and hips, vibration white finger, hearing loss, personal injuries etc etc etc. but there were others that were disgusted that they never had VWF and the 20 odd thousand pounds that could come with it. On top of that. You could then go down the route of DWP loss of earnings. A potential big earner. Some of the miners that were upset they never had an industrial disease seemed to have forgotten they were fine. Money blinds folks. Now some miners were crafty sods. If you were diagnosed as having VWF. The mining industry had a duty of care to look after them to make sure their condition never deteriorated. So they were taken off jobs. They were disgusted as they were earning serious money. Once paid, they tried every trick in the book to get back onto there old jobs. Money blinds folks. Every injury carried a percentage of “ disability”. Over the course of a mining career people totted up there injuries percentage. If it was over 12 or 13% you got a percentage disability claim for life. We kept the lads medical records. The last few months of my job I spent hours going through lads records checking the history of there injuries so they could make claims to get there percentages up. When one came in and was sorted the floodgates opened. Money blinds folk.
During the last year at the pit. We did X rays on the lads. It was compulsory. A few of the lads never came in so they stopped them underground. One lad had his X-ray and like a good few others he had dust, and a good bit of it. If you had dust, you was taken out of the pit straight away and got ill health. He was sat waiting to see the dr and Sister to discuss his records. When he came out, the sister called me into the office. She said “ he was informed that he had dust and had to give the records to his own GP”. He said “I won’t bother, he already knows”. It transpires that a year earlier he had been to his GP re shortness of breathe, his GP sent him for an X ray. It showed he was riddled with dust. His Dr gave him the results to give to Occ health, Us. He never delivered it as he knew he would be taken off the coal face. It was the last face at the pit and he was earning serious serious money, which counted towards his redundancy. He was livid when he was taken off the job. Money blinds folk.
I could go on and on.
Re benefits.My grief is that for me there should be a personal pot that everyone has. You can top it up whilst working but once that money is spent. The pound note benefits finishes. There has to be a way to get people off benefits which lead some people living very very comfortable lives, lives where some folk have no intentions what so ever of changing.
