Tuesday 1 October 2019

"The idea that claimants need to change"

The first line of this Guardian article is that "the underlying problem with the flagship Tory policy is the idea that claimants need to change". The former hard right wing Work and Pensions Secretary’s conviction that the role of the system was not simply to allocate benefits, but to "change claimants’ behaviour". I as a person with Asperger who has had a good job for nearly 8 years but about to be made redundant due to outsourcing, thus sending me back to the open job market, raise the question of "What of typical EMPLOYER behaviour?" Will the EMPLOYER choose me over a good communicator anywhere? It was all very well when the said former Work and Pensions Secretary would say "disabled people have to get back into work", but did he question EMPLOYERS on taking them on? They set their Person Specifications and choose the other person avoiding any question by just saying "the other applicant more closely matched the role profile".