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Originally Posted by jambutty
Once upon a time long term claimants of sickness benefits were called in to see the “Social Security” doctor. The office was based on Northgate in Blackburn adjacent to Mercers.
After about three months of being on the sick you got a letter telling you to attend at a particular time and day. This was not negotiable. If you didn’t attend you got struck off the sick. Those who attended then had to demonstrate to the doctor that they still suffered from what put them on the sick.
That certainly sorted out the scroungers.
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It was actually 26 weeks JB, I went twice, but I went to Bury, on the second occasion I saw the same doctor I saw on the first occasion. He looked at my notes and looked up at me and said "I've seen you before haven't I" I said he had, the last time I came. He just said then "Why are they wasting my time, your time, and their money keep sending you to see me, you aren't going to get better, you are only going to go worse, how true those words were, unfortunately