Viv and I often use the disabled bays in car parks: it's easier for her to get out of a car if she can open the door fully. She can manage in a standard space - I get the wheelchair out at the back, and she gets out carefully, ensuring our car door does not bash against the neighboring one. Indeed, most people using disabled spaces could get by in a narrow space; the blue badge has almost become a trophy, a reward for actual or apparent incapacity, entitling the user to use wider spaces in the car park. But, if you get well in the fullness of time, you will lose your blue badge.
It's the same with benefits. Disability entitles you to benefits, perhaps £150 a week. If you get well you lose them.
Where's the incentive for people to do the exercises specified by their physio? Where is the incentive for people to get themselves fit and well? If they get stronger they lose their benefits; how many people take the benefits, say 'thank you very much' to the DWP, and do little to improve their health?
No wonder the country is skint.
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