Yet another Daily Mail smear campaign . . .

I've just read this post from 'Where's the Benefit?', and am so thankful to them for their clear, calm facts, in answering yet another of the Daily Mail's smear campaigns against the sick and disabled of this country.
This time, it's about Disability Living Allowance (DLA), and how, apparently, only half of those getting DLA have been asked for evidence backing their claims.


The link to it is:


http://wheresthebenefit.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-mail-lies.html?spref=fb

I, for one, had to go through hoops to get the DLA I was awarded, and had to go to a tribunal, with every bit of evidence of my various conditions from my Doctor and Specialists, before I was awarded the DLA, indefinitely. 
This took me much time, effort, and heaps of nervous exhaustion, things that only exacerbated my health conditions at the time. Since the tribunal, my health has got even worse, and so the money I was awarded is being used to help support me in any effort I can make to get out and about (something increasingly rare, as my health deteriorates). This money ensures that I can keep in touch with the world via the internet, as this is the only way I can stay in contact with people, given my problems with dealing with the telephone :(
To have that indefinite award, made me feel that at least there was one thing in my life that was steady, and which I could rely on to keep supporting me, but now I am told that I will probably have to have a yearly medical which, if I manage to pass it, given the draconian pass rates Atos is ensuring, will cost the taxpayer an estimated £24,7456,000 for all the 3.2 million people currently claiming it (see above link).


Where is the saving in this?


I cannot understand a government who are intent on vilifying the most vulnerable in society, in order to bolster their own way of life.
A society is judged by the way it deals with it's poor and vulnerable and, as far as I can see, our society is quickly showing just how uncaring it can be. 


I have to admit that I'm getting more and more frightened by the Coalition's bulldozing of the Welfare system, and wonder each day what else they will think up, to drag us back to the bad old days; those times before good and decent men decided that a support network was needed to help those who, through no fault of their own, were unable to go out to work to support themselves!


Does anybody need a chimney sweep?