Pilot training? This can't be true?
Discussion
My Mum, ever first with local gossip, told me this week that the son of the man who lives next door to her was off in Florida being trained as a pilot ( which is feasible I guess) but that it was being paid for by the disability benefits people as a 'training' scheme.
Now, she is known to embroider what she hears based upon her assumptions but is it possible that the state would pay for someone with a disability to be trained as a pilot as a route into work?
I think she may be adding bits on because this family are a gang of benefit scroungers (three disability cars but able to play tennis and work on the side) and I could see the benefits people trying very hard to get their idle arses out to work (there are four in the house, three on disability due to some genetic defect of the feet, but none have done a days work in the 15 years I have known them).
So, myth and the ramblings of a p155 sodden old dear, or possible but p155 boiling?
Now, she is known to embroider what she hears based upon her assumptions but is it possible that the state would pay for someone with a disability to be trained as a pilot as a route into work?
I think she may be adding bits on because this family are a gang of benefit scroungers (three disability cars but able to play tennis and work on the side) and I could see the benefits people trying very hard to get their idle arses out to work (there are four in the house, three on disability due to some genetic defect of the feet, but none have done a days work in the 15 years I have known them).
So, myth and the ramblings of a p155 sodden old dear, or possible but p155 boiling?
Mx_Stu said:
Do it please, it's our taxes which are being affected... The jiffle king said:
Mx_Stu said:
Do it please, it's our taxes which are being affected... 
Grass em up!
Adam T said:
Dob then in, if you know they play tennis and work on the side.
I would, and have done so in the past
I have, and so have many others. They seem, bomb proof. They know every wrinkle known to man. They even come back from their long sumer hols for the old man to do his bit at the job centre. I would, and have done so in the past
A neighbours son was seeing the daughter and was given instruction from them on how to fool the doctors and benefits people. The council even put a round floor bedroom and bathroom extension on for the son at a cost of £25K which they then eenmted to the daughters boyfriend! They were gettinjg so much in benefits that they got a mortage to buy the house and thentried to sell it but were threatened with having to pay the council back for the extension so droped the idea.
Edited by Brown and Boris on Wednesday 24th December 12:08
haworthlloyd1 said:
not sure a disabled guy could be a pilot depending on what is wrong with him - they don't even let you fly if you have to wear glasses etc or so i have been told
inform the benefits people you have a right to do so
For a commercial medical, short-sight must be better the -5.5 dioptres, last time I looked (well, squinted) at the requirements....for a renewal, better than -8.0 dioptres. In either case, that is well into Mr.Magoo territory.inform the benefits people you have a right to do so
Depending on this chaps' "disability" though there are plenty of other things which may prevent the issue of a Class 1 medical. No medical - no job prospects, and hence not even worth beginning the training. I've never heard of anyone having a CPL paid for under these circumstances (although nothing would surprise me) - suspect the tale might be a load of old cobblers designed to get your wee simmering.
Edited: FWIW, the initial requirement is now -6.00 dioptres or better for short sight. I'm not sure that you could actually get an HGV license with the same eyesight.
If you can read this, you can apply
Edited by eharding on Wednesday 24th December 12:12
My wife shopped someone about 10 years ago who was on benefits but was always out with his kids, also on benefits, washing cars and cleaning windows for cash.
His benefits got stopped and he got a job pretty quickly.
To this day the useless oxyqen thieving, benefit cheating
thinks it was me. But as he's only about the same height as a troll (and looks like one) he's never been man enough to confront anyone about it.
His benefits got stopped and he got a job pretty quickly.
To this day the useless oxyqen thieving, benefit cheating
thinks it was me. But as he's only about the same height as a troll (and looks like one) he's never been man enough to confront anyone about it.Mx_Stu said:
website said:
The investigation might take some time, and staff aren't allowed to tell you the outcome.
Where's the fun then?Brown and Boris said:
Adam T said:
Dob then in, if you know they play tennis and work on the side.
I would, and have done so in the past
I have, and so have many others. They seem, bomb proof. I would, and have done so in the past
Edited by Brown and Boris on Wednesday 24th December 12:08
Its my tax they are wasting. If you dont want to do it, post their address here and I'll do it.
Adam T said:
Dob then in, if you know they play tennis and work on the side.
I would, and have done so in the past
Wat? Some disabled people can play tennis...I would, and have done so in the past
...and some of them even work too!
How can someone who's been born with a genetic disability taking a training course to get into work be a pi55 boiler??
Not everyone on benefits is a 'theif' you know.
There may be no truth in this at all but it does raise some issues. Disabled is seen now as a way to have an income without working for many. My dad worked in the mines in the 50s-80s and there were many working there who had lost limbs or an eye and yet were doing paid jobs. I have also employed disabled people in the past as a wheelchair doesn't stop somone answering the phones for example.
Until the benefit system is made like a business this will never end. If the managers and staff of the benefit agency were bonused on how many cheating fkers they caught then I am sure they would reduce the feckless workshy we now keep.
Until the benefit system is made like a business this will never end. If the managers and staff of the benefit agency were bonused on how many cheating f
kers they caught then I am sure they would reduce the feckless workshy we now keep.Gassing Station | The Pie & Piston Archive | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff