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Let me pin this: if you're "gender critical", transphobic, ableist, racist, sexist, "anti-gender", pro-austerity, or a raging Tory, then I haven't any time for you & you'll probably end up blocked. Bye now! (Reposted to dump certain blocked quote-tweeters.)

@surfbro619 As someone who has had to use a launderette often in the past, you did absolutely the right thing - her behaviour was unconscionably rude. If nobody had been waiting, OK, I get why she would be irritated. But multiple waiting & she kicks off that bad? Really not cool.

So I’m at the laundry mat right now. I wanna ask all of you something. And be honest. This lady came and dropped off over 12 different loads in the washer and dryer and left. People were waiting, including myself for the dryers. So when her clothes were done, I waited 40 more mins and took them out. There were no other dryers available. Then when she came back, it was 30 mins after I took them out, and she flipped out on me. Am I in the wrong? Please repost this because I want everyone’s outlook on this.

@KalahariDW OK, so it's gone up since last I checked. I also have dyscalculia, all right? Figures aren't easy for me.

@trialia @sirjohnofleigh6 @Jenny_1884

Sickness benefits worth £3,000 more than a minimum wage job. How is that right? Nobody should be better off on benefits than someone who gets out of bed everyday & does a full day’s work It’s just wrong

@Torz2012 Under 2%, as I said.

@trialia @sirjohnofleigh6 @Jenny_1884 0.6% 2022 figure for pip not sure last years not seen an update

@coggington62 @sirjohnofleigh6 @Jenny_1884 That's the DWP's own figure for fraud and error combined, and they go gangbusters after anybody reported for fraud even if they aren't found guilty - they lose benefits *unless & until* it's proven that they weren't defrauding the system.

@trialia @sirjohnofleigh6 @Jenny_1884 How do you knownits 2% …. Have the people who fake it admitted to it.

@SHARONM91833879 @BriefcaseMike @ladyC1900 I said "and ESA support group with severe disability premium", not only full PIP. It still isn't 1400 a month, but it's nearer the figure than PIP alone would be.

@trialia @BriefcaseMike @ladyC1900 PIP enhanced is only £737 so that idiot needs to get his facts right for a start...

Fraser Nelson said if you are too sick to work you are handed £1400 a month. Where does that £1400 figure come from? One for fact-checkers and #BBCVerify. It's a complex subject but I just checked ESA for single over 25s and that amounts to around £392 a month. #r4today

@elle15112470 @Shrink_at_Large > genetically-based chronic illnesses. I would be working now if my genetic condition hadn't been brushed off for my entire childhood - instead, I wound up on disability at 20 because too much damage had been done to my system by the time my EDS & POTS were accurately diagnosed.

@elle15112470 @Shrink_at_Large > proportion of the "benefits bill" where the figures are those presented by the DWP & government in general. State pension is higher than ESA, on a weekly basis. As for sickness, we would do better on that front if the NHS had a funded pharmacogenetics dept. & more training on >

£35k in benefits? #Dispatches misrepresents life on benefits. Only happens rarely with severe disability (max PIP), children, and living in an unusually high-cost rental area. Most claimants receive much less and struggle daily. Stop weaponizing outliers to fuel division.

@Steptoes_orphan @10to15percent @AIDANTURNER4 @BriefcaseMike That depends on income - below a certain income people can still get housing benefit or LHA, but the proportion depends on what they earn. So some would come from wages, and some would not.

@trialia @10to15percent @AIDANTURNER4 @BriefcaseMike If you were working....would you have to pay the rent yourself? And if so, which 'pot' would it come from....your wages or your separate 'house rent' fund?

@BIG_HOSS_GAMER Exactly. Most of us claiming either or both of those have reactive depression, anxiety, PTSD, usually as a *result* of our disability status or long-term sickness. (I certainly do.)

@trialia Yep, just mental health claims comes nowhere near that figure.

@BIG_HOSS_GAMER @Jenny_1884 "Illegals" can't claim benefits, don't be misled by that rhetoric. Asylum seekers are registered as "not entitled to public funds" when they engage with the DWP. As for the rest, well, my late father became an alcoholic bc painkillers never worked on him. He was still disabled.

@Jenny_1884 There are 3 sections that need to be looked at - alcoholics, drug addicts, illegals. They cost far more per year than someone who can’t work through disability.

@BIG_HOSS_GAMER They're not evaluating the figures properly - they're assuming all individual reports w just 1 condition each, where in fact most people who get ESA or PIP have more than 1 problem at a time.

@xerxes5th @Jenny_1884 Do you have a link for that please?

@xerxes5th @BIG_HOSS_GAMER @Jenny_1884 You aren't looking at the figures accurately. That's telling you how many claimants have each issue, not how many have that problem ALONE. There's a LOT of crossover - people who have depression or anxiety BECAUSE of our physical disabilities.

@BIG_HOSS_GAMER @Jenny_1884 The UK currently pay £65 billion to 3 million people claiming 'mental health issues' as their primary disability. Bigger than all other issues combined.

@sirjohnofleigh6 @Jenny_1884 Every time it gets an "overhaul" it's harder for the genuinely disabled people to endure the process and piss-easy for anybody who actually is faking - which, by the way, is less than 2% to begin with. Tax fraud costs the UK 14x what benefit fraud ever does.

@Jenny_1884 I’m all for supporting genuine people who need the help but there are a lot who just take the piss. The whole benefits system needs an overhaul.

@Jenny_1884 I wouldn't wish others to have less because it won't lead to you having more.

@PeterHe16408739 @BriefcaseMike Funny, my neighbour on pension credit gets more than I do in ESA. (And hands half of it to his drug dealer...)

@BriefcaseMike £392... That's more than many pensions.

@Martinaj70 @BriefcaseMike You don't get ESA and UC together.

@BriefcaseMike That's the esa bit then there's Universal Crefit and housing benefit on top. It can well exceed £1400

@StevieR60 @BriefcaseMike But the money is never yours, it goes straight to the landlords and back to the council, the amounts look nice for one second... - the money you get to live on AND paying all your bills are a drop in the ocean of debts & desperations.

@Whitmore03David @brianw2013 Ex-Editor. Gove replaced him this year.