From: "Matthew  Brealey" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Are we benefit scroungers?
Date: 28 Sep 2006 07:14:05 -0700
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Alasdair wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:59:44 GMT, Mike  wrote:
>
> >My wife got pretty badly smashed up in a road traffic accident on her way to
> >work a few months ago and is now in a wheelchair (for a few months yet). She
> >does get sick pay for 6 months.
>
> Whose fault was the accident?  Is your wife not entitled to
> substantial damages? If the other party's insurers accept liability,
> they may well make an intermim payment to your wife.
>
> Your wife should be able to claim Disability Living Allowance which,
> is not means tested. She should also qualify for a free bus pass and a
> Disabled Person's Railcard and, most valuable of all, a Disabled
> Person's Parking Permit.  Once you get these things, they tend not to
> take them off you when you recover.
>
> This is not scrounging; it is your legal and moral entitlement from a
> so-called caring society.

Continuing to use a disabled person's parking permit after you've
recovered doesn't sound very moral to me. Nor any of those other things
for that matter - if you are getting a free bus pass, then the cost of
that is being subsidised by others on the basis that you're disabled.
Just because you can get away with using it after you no longer need
it, doesn't mean it's moral.....