Why Is This Allowed?

[Ann]

I thought you had to be available for work at all times whilst on benefits? I know I was - the 5 months I was unemployed. She is abusing the benefits system. I wish I could afford to go abroad on my pension!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2619004/Benefits-Streets-White-Dee-enjoys-champagne-break-Majorca-appear-Magaluf-pool-party-shes-sick-work.html#comments

[excelsior-1]

well, that's an odd way of acting 'depressed'

[DrFilth]

don't think you need to be available to look for work when you are on the sick,
hc4361 posted about her the other day

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1333670.html

[sherrardk]

There's another thread about it here - http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1333670.html

Although I hardly think she can be cheating the system if she is so blatant about it, might also depend upon which benefits she is receiving.

[ladybirder]

As it is all over the papers I'm sure if she abusing the benefits system, as you say, then the DSS people will be anxious to speak to her when she returns.

[DrFilth]

sherrardk snap

[Ann]

Not exactly fair though Sher is it? She is surely getting some income now from appearing in the media and on TV. I can think of several families who would love a little break as they are run off their feet.

[treetops68]

Don't know if the rules have changed but if you let DWP know your going on holiday you used to be covered but there again I expect everything was paid for by the paper for the copy.

[sherrardk]

No one said life is fair :(

Seriously though, I can't see that she can be breaking the rules unless she is monumentally dim.

[black_cat51]

i think you are on very shaky ground suggesting that someone who is sick is not able to go on holiday

[DrFilth]

Ann the dwp will check her bank accounts and if she gets one penny from any of the media mob they will have her in

[B00]

Not that im sticking up for her or anything, but I think she's on sickness benefit not jobseekers, so therefore not available for work anyway.

Also, it's been claimed in the media that she hasn't been paid for any publicity stunts she does.

[Ann]

We will wait and see what happens then when she gets home.

[DrFilth]

Ann wait till the bbc sign her up for a million for her own show, the big d show

and who is on your show today d, well we have sicknote steve from leeds and giro pete from luton and a few east europeans who do not know what to claim but i hope to point them in the right direction

[anneasquith]

I hardly think she is silly enough to travel without the dss being aware,

[Prudie]

She’s on sickness benefit, can’t work because of depression so technically perfectly entitled to go on holiday. Still stinks IMO..

[pusskin]

Millions of people still go to work with depression, but 10 Yrs on sick?

[hc4361]

It's hard to get a job when you've been convicted of stealing £13k from your employer.

As already said, she's on sickness benefit, not jobseekers allowance.

[Ken4155]

pusskin; millions? that's rather a wild claim! Admittedly there are different levels of depression but 'fed up' isn't one of them. Depression is a crippling illness that causes the sufferer to undergo a total personality change; to become uninterested in life in general, to withdraw from the outside world preferring one's own company. Personal hygiene is often affected, meals are missed, housework remains undone. How could anyone with true depression even contemplate holding down a job?

[Baby_Sham]

Can't be bothered to read the full article, but you can't really choose when you feel depressed or not.
Granted, she seems to be having a whale of a time, but for every one good day I have, I seem to have three *** ones.... though I haven't been abroad for years! :-)

[anneasquith]

one in four people suffer mental illness,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,