Handout
1 Waiting for the appeals.
How long?
• Appeals
could take up to a year or two.
• If
you have access online a lot please check every now and then to see if the
information I teach like for example to find out whether or not people can
appeal still if they have their benefits cut, please try to keep yourself up to
date with these things when you time to do so.
• Some
people have said that the government have said they are thinking about stopping
appeals, it may or may not be true, they may have stopped them now or will be
in the future so try to keep up with what’s going on as much as you can.
• Most
people take longer.
• Some
take longer than others.
The wait
depends on.
• Peoples’
issues
• On
people’s Disabilities and Health Problems.
The waiting time is a big
risk to peoples’ health.
• People with disabilities and health problems are more sensitive
than other people.
• People worry about owing to people and services money.
• These worries and stresses put people at risk of taking their own
lives.
• Most people have taken overdoses.
• Just to let you know that there are some people who do pull
through.
• Not all GPS can
check peoples’ health while people are waiting for their appeal.
• People should have their health checks even more so while going
through appeals but there’s not always the funding and time according to the
system.
• People are in risk of being more stressed hungry or and going into
debt.
• The food banks can only give people so much food.
• A lot of people feel embarrassed by having to have free food.
• Most people live on their own and they have very little support
even harder if their benefits are cut or and stopped.
• People are in risk of losing their homes while their benefits are
cut or stopped.
• The government has been known to cut and stop people's’ money
with or without a reason just to save money.
• Altos and DWP have signed people off fit for work when people
haven’t been fit for work and also without support.
• Just to let you know that not all people lose their lives over
this.
• As strange it sounds most people lose their lives because the
stress is just far too much.
. Anxiety and Depression is more
of serious health problems than that what it looks like and the stress of
everyday life is to blame for it.
Today.
• Here’s
my website address to study the handouts to today’s session or and anything
else you may find useful to learn off my website sararevealed.blogspot.com/
• Here
is my email address sarajgorman@gmail.com
• ATOS
KILLERS
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• Please tell me at least three things you have learned to
today or email me to feedback.
• Please
enjoy any other session you may have today.
• Please
have a safe journey home.
• Bye
for now.
Handout2
As for personal budgets here’s exercise for you.
· Remember
what I said about checking what information is in and out of date.
· Check
the updates with the benefit system online 2015 – 2016.
· On
the some reports they may have at least rough budgets what people are getting
different benefits.
· Check
up what the difference in food prices in shops by where you live and even
online.
· Which
is the cheapest healthy food or unhealthy food, is it affordable to what people
are getting on benefits when they have bills, even council taxi to
pay, support worker/carer and etc to pay?
Example of
proof if your patient is in any health and safety risk by services or force
into situations not in their limits or and needs.
The best job you can do guys is keep an
eye on their health the best you can. If they are going through anything that
affects their health or a service or even the GPs isn’t giving them the help
they need and their health and safety is at risk you need to put something in
writing for proof if your management lets you.
Limits of
what we can do.
For example: if they
are forced into work they can’t manage without support. As for
employment that doesn’t affect a person’s disability and health problem, unless
we can’t move and can’t do anything for ourselves at all there’s no reasons for
not choosing work that doesn’t affect our disabilities and health problems.
Some of us have physical disabilities and others have mental disabilities, some
like me have a bit of both.
Disability,
health problems and work.
I wouldn’t be very good with
physical and Manual work but I will be alright with say office
work and teaching like I am doing now. Along as long as we are within our
limits and we have the right support then we shouldn’t be a danger to ourselves
and others.
Health.
Most GP surgeries do health checks and
others don’t but even ones that do don’t necessary what you call full health
checkups, which can vary. Bear in mind that it’s getting with the talk of NHS
going private which is hard with a lot of people who are not on much money but
it’s twice as worrying and probably harder for people who
are vulnerable such people with disabilities and health
problems. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-34186624
For example: I was even finding
them checking my weight and not telling me what it is, whether or not I need to
anything about it or not. Mind you most people with disabilities and health
problems say that the shop just can get they can only afford unhealthy but that
can vary so much to the person’s needs and how far they can travel to get to a
shop that sells healthy food to a price they can afford.
Everyone who suffers from for example
Anxiety and Depression the way they cope with it is different and how it
affects them is different. Some people can go from not having any get up and go
to needing to always having something on in their lives others are one or
other. For me I go both ways.
Myself for example: I don’t only love
my job but it gives me something to look forward to and not only something to
do. I am a very unhappy person if I don’t have anything to do but do have times
I can’t bothered with much either, that mostly when I have times things are
bothering me.
Those of you who have read my website
before may have read me saying that Anxiety and Depression is a feeling of mood
and sadness whether have a reason to or not. For me to have something positive
in my life can stop from taking the negative that’s inside me out on others.
I have had my fair share down points
when I was very young where now I think my word why did I let them bother me so
much?
When I was twenty I took
an overdose of my epilepsy tablets because I was force to carry
taking them when I wasn’t even having seizures.
After I had cancer when I was twenty –
three I nearly climbed out the window while I was
going through radiography because I was so fed up of been
stuck at home.
1997 I had a breakdown over a broken
relationship I thought was very serious. Now thank goodness means nothing to me
but meant a lot to me at the time. If you read my poems a lot of them will
relate that experience.
Another example of
stress: has your patient got an Advocacy?
What is the difference between negotiation and advocacy?
In class, we did an exercise where we had to answer whatever it
was advocacy or negotiation for a given situation. I feel this was difficult as
I didn’t have all the information about the cases but I was able to understand
why situations required different outcomes.
Identify when negation is more approached by negotiation rather
than straightforward advocacy? Consider also if a mixture of the two to be used.
· It’s a mixture of the two when an
electricity company has written to a client to say that he/she owes £250.00,
they are on a very low income. The company wants the money in full in seven
days. It’s the advocate’s job to find out if the client owes that amount of
money. If the client owes that money the advocate should negate installments
·
· A decision
by the DSS to refuse a grant from the Social Fund because there is insufficient
money in the local budget. This again could be a mixture of both. The
advocate needs to find out if the client is entitled to the money, if any money
in the budget. Negotiate a lower amount. (More money is to come from the
budget.)
·
· A decision is made
by the local hospital to put someone on the waiting list to see a consultant.
The waiting list is 12 months. (Advocacy) This again is a mixture of both. This
will depend on how will the client is.
· A
refusal by the council housing department to grant a tenant with rent arrears a
housing transfer in order to be nearer relatives who provide care and support.
This is a mixture of both again. Find out if the client owes money; try to
negotiate with the council housing if they can transfer them with a training
plan to pay back their arrears. At some point advocacy can only go so far.
·
· It’s people like these people who don’t
need to be on benefits who are making it hard for those who do.http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/britains-most-shameless-mum-cheryl-6620148#ICID=FB_mirror_main
Handout 3
Work and
benefit awareness.
Different people have different
disabilities and health problems can vary so therefore it can on what benefits
they are on, what disabilities and health problems they have what work they do
and how often they work, this needs to be looked into more properly.
Like I have said on other reports
on this website if people are in a job they can manage, they have the knowledge
of and they are more likely to be safe less support they are likely to need.
Whether they can work full time or part time should be depending on the
disabilities and health problems. For example with some peoples’ health
problems some people may need a sleep in the afternoon.
Saying there’s no reason for people
with disabilities and health problems to do not anything at all unless their
disabilities and problems affect them from moving and they need a lot of care,
they are in real severe shocking pain or and very seriously ill.
If necessary more awareness needs to be
raised to employers about medications because of the side – effects they can
cause people and health and safety reasons too. Some medications are not
necessary all could affect most peoples’ to do their job, therefore it could be
possible for employers to provide the support. This is could depend on how
severe the side – effects of the medications are.
Hand
4. The
benefit cuts.
This has become a worried because it’s
costing Britain a lot of money but then not because a lot of places that help
and support people with disabilities, health problems and the elderly the
government seem to make cuts on, which is more of a worry that these people are
getting either very little help or no help at all.
I have a huge concern on what people
with disabilities, health problems and the elderly are going through with the
cuts this day and age. The benefit cuts seem to have a huge affect on the lives
of people with disabilities and health problems.
The problem seems to be that there are
too much people on the benefit system now that there are too many people who
don’t have good reasons to be on benefits as well as the people who do.
Nine times out of the ten the
people who want to work are the ones who have good reasons for being on the
benefit system yet and a lot of the people who don’t have a good reason don’t
want to work but I won’t say all. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/britains-most-shameless-mum-cheryl-6620148#ICID=FB_mirror_main
I feel it’s very wrong that the
wrong people are getting punished, which are mostly the people with
disabilities and health problems. It seems as if society
sees vulnerable people as hard work, that we cost too much money, we
are useless and helpless. It’s wrong to treat us as if we are to blame for
giving ourselves disabilities and health problems in the eyes of
society. We shouldn’t have been born to start with. This way society puts
too much negatively into our head to make us believe we are hopeless and
useless but we are not we just need the right help and support to get by in
life. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-girl-mental-age-four-6630369
This report needs to be seen more
than just an awareness and study but these matters should be taken up with the
British government to set up a system to find out who has a good enough reason
to be on benefits and who hasn’t.
Most people who have good enough
reasons to be on the benefit system suffer enough in stress as it is within
their own disabilities and health problems.
Throughout this year I have
raised awareness to the 1st, 2ndand 3rd year
students on the benefit cuts but I feel now because a lot of people with
disabilities and health problems have died because in some peoples’ cases, they
haven’t had any money or not enough money to feed themselves, other people have
not been getting any or enough help and support to a point they have taken
their own lives. Now I will be teaching this year’s first the benefit cuts
awareness. Now I am teaching this year's first year.
This is why I feel the government
needs to take these matters more than seriously. There needs to be a stop
to this now, fair enough to save money but not to take it off those who need it
most. This has become a huge risk to vulnerable lives. Anyone would think we
have purposely planned to have disabilities and health problems to make life
hard for others. Does anyone think we would choose to have disabilities and
health problems? I certainly wouldn’t, I have learned to live with it but I
don’t like it and I don’t think anyone else like myself would make that choose
do.
Here are some matters that I have
raised with my students which do need to be raised with the government. People
who have had their benefits cuts should be having health check- ups while
waiting for their appeals. We need to be checking to see whether or not the
government are doing away with appeals. People hate depending on food banks.
Places like DWP and Altos signing them off fit for work by forcing people into
jobs they can’t manage were their health and safety is at risk without support.
A lot of people suffer from such mental health problems like Anxiety and
Depression and risk of taking their own lives, the stress of the benefit cuts
is more risks to their health. Many people have found when they have tried to
get support from a lot of services that can’t help them due to the funding,
which now always seems to be the case. This even worse when people have had their
benefits cut. Now the more people hear it the more they start to think it’s an
excuse not to help them. The government needs to be aware of how serious these
matters are affecting peoples’ lives. Everyone’s situation is different some
are likely to need more support than others.
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