AFFECT ON AN APPELLANTS
How can someone on or denied a benefit progress a case, without finance, through an appeal to the Appeals Service, an appeal to The Commissioners Office, the Commissioners Office able to pass the case back to the Appeals Service as often as they so wish, Judicial Review: Court of Appeal, Back to the OSSC as often as they so wish, Court of Appeal, House of Lords, European Court of Human Rights…each step taking up to or over a year keeping members of the public on a merry go round of frustration, with never ending appeals; a refusal to grant closure, a practice which keeps the judiciary in work; leads not to justice but injustice, poverty, potentially the destruction of lives and homes, distress, despair, hyper-stress disorders, mental illness and ultimately the prospect of homelessness and suicide; issues not to be readily dismissed by society. The consequences are such that claimants generally give up early in the process and are forced to find alternative means of support whether from family, begging or crime.
In the case of appeals concerning care of the elderly or chronically ill, the individual has invariably passed away long before the remedy is exhausted.
Is this justice for those who need it most? We think not; the matter decided by highly paid individuals who consequently never find themselves within the social security system.
How can it be that the United Kingdom prides itself on being a mantle of democracy, freedom and justice in the global arena? The simple fact is that this nation has over time developed a system of oppression and injustice possessing a veneer of respectability and masking the reality of justice on an arbitrary basis rather than in accordance with adherence to the law.
Once in the system a claimant can and we know does become open to abuse, a political plaything of a rotten DWP franchise.
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL SECURITY
The word fraud , is a term not used lightly however we have identified cases of claimants being illegally and on the evidence quite deliberately robbed of tens of thousands of pounds yet when you consider that the simple theft of say a bar of chocolate, could lead to a custodial sentence, you should recognize why mischief and corruption on this huge scale by public and judicial servants, is very much in the public interest and requires exposure toward meaningful remedial action and reform.
THE CALL FOR REFORM
An individual convicted of a criminal offence is granted the right of a trial before a jury made up of what should be, truly independent persons without highly experienced legal training in the particular field . Should the accused be found guilty they may receive a fine, such which may be paid up, taking into account personal circumstances affecting both ability to pay and basic physical needs.
Decision Makers in the DWP however have power, over an individual, not necessarily guilty of any crime, to withdraw not a few pounds but to strip that individual or family of their entire income in perpetuity (or as long as the appeals process wishes to hang the claimant out for) if they wish, a far greater power it appears than a highly experienced magistrate, controlled in the first instance by a jury!
Could this in part explain why in our society we are seeing so much homelessness and begging on the streets?
We believe the legislation to be set out wholly reasonably should the DWP and their overseers abide by such. The problem is that those administering the legislation and especially those in place to administer them, displaying bias, not abiding by the law, whitewashing violations of the regulations put in place by parliament to protect the public and otherwise exceeding their powers.
Our total respect and support extends to those members of these organizations who are upright, honest and do not partake in such wrongdoing. They are we hope, a majority.
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