Too fat to work

Almost two thousand people who are too fat to work have been paid a total of £4.4 million in benefit, it emerged last night. Other payments went to fifty sufferers of acne and ten incapacitated by leprosy.
Billions of pounds is being paid in benefits to people claiming to be unable to work because they suffer from depression, stress, fatigue and unknown or unspecified diseases.
The full list of ailments of the 2.7 million people claiming £7.4 billion in incapacity benefits, obtained by using Freedom of Information laws, will fuel suspicion that it is being used to keep them off the official jobless total. It will also fuel the debate over whether British workers could have been hired for more of the one million new jobs taken by migrants since 1997.
Overall more than £1.1 billion was paid to people suffering from a depressive episode plus a further £276 million to the estimated 116,000 claimants with “other anxiety disorders” and £122 million to the estimated 50,000 suffering from a “reaction to severe stress”.
A total of 15,600 people received benefits for “malaise and fatigue” and a further 8,100 for “dizziness and giddiness”. The figures disclose that 4,000 claimants had headaches, 2,700 migraines and 1,890 suffered from eating disorders. About £100,000 in benefits went to those with acne and a similar amount to 60 people with “nail disorder”. Nausea and vomiting cost £2 million in benefits for 900 people.

I bet they spend their days on internet forums

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

I bet they spend their days on internet forums

what r u trying to say?

I'm just too stupid not to work.......

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

Too fat to work

I`m only on here cos i`m off sick today

who the hell has leprosy these days??? 10 people ??? where did they catch that then

Why is it that I feel that it will be only a matter of time before our Nation's great Tabloid Media (and I am taking the right royal) will link this with a certain yellow cartoon character............

Acne?! Unless the spot is big enough to cover both of their eyes, I don't understand how you can get the day off!

Originally Posted by Speedy Claire

I`m only on here cos i`m off sick today

who the hell has leprosy these days??? 10 people ??? where did they catch that then

http://www.break.com/index/horrible-...into-tree.html

i'm off sick today!

But I am really sick. I just went to superdrug for lemsip & neurofene & all these old ladies with trolleys get pushing past me & crowding me out. Really pushy, bossy & beligerent.

No hoodies for me to worry about!

Originally Posted by Kinvig

i'm off sick today!

I just went to superdrug for lemsip & neurofene !

i put it to you that if you are well enough to go to the shops........... you are well enough to go to work