I Daniel Blake

I found out yesterday that when you are filling in the UC claim form there is no save facility. So if you are in your local library completing it ( because you have no computer at home) and you have to stop for whatever reason ( to retrieve some information from home for example) you lose all you’ve inputted and have to start again next day. I completed my self assessment tax form last week - no prizes for guessing if it had a save function. I sometimes can’t help but wonder ......

It’s on BBC Ailsa
It was very well portrayed, written, and acted and showed the sheer frustration and harshness of the system
I think what you experienced was horrendous MissA l
I think a lot may depend if you live in a big city or a quieter smaller town, people seem to get away with more here and there are definitely people who are fit to work but know how to work the system while others who are honest and could never be able to work are hounded
It certainly portrayed so well the fear and frustration as you are passed from pillar to post with no concern that not everyone knows their way round a computer or the ins and outs of form filling, it was so very very harsh and very sad

Could anyone please tell me what channel this first aired on , so I can get it on catch up

I watched this and got quite upset.. it was certainly an eye opener of how easy it is to find yourself in that situation.It made me count my blessings that's for sure.Oh and the acting was great .

missAdventure, what a dreadful time you had, so sorry to read about your experience.

I confess to not having had the strength to watch the film. I have loved ones facing trial by benefit system. I worked for 40 years with so many people in 'the system'. they never had an easy time, but I'm ashamed to live in a country with a government that seems to focus on making life impossible for those in greatest need.

I saw this film a couple of years ago and it was incredibly upsetting. Sometimes when I'm listening to the radio late at night, the shipping forecast music comes on (Sailing By) and although it is lovely, it takes me right back to that film. It seems with the introduction of Universal Credit, nothing has changed either - only got worse.

Thank you all.
I' just want to let people know some of what it is like, as I had no idea myself until I found myself caught up in a nightmare.
Its humiliating, demeaning, and not fit for purpose, because its assumed that you don't want to work.

MissAdventure - this is awful.
I haven't watched I Daniel Blake as I think it would be too distressing. I know there are terrible things happening without watching this.

The health care professional who did my medical assessment wrote that I coped with the assessment well (i cried all the way through it) and that I can get in and out of the bath with no problems.
They wrote to my gp and asked them to 'support me' by not letting me have another certificate.

Bloody hell MissAdventure commuting 90 minutes each way is flipping ridiculous even for people who are fit and well. Sorry for you.

I remember how the woman at the agency looked at me in astonishment when I first started job-hunting in London (I was 51) when I said "I am not prepared to travel more than 5 stops on the Tube". She found me a job though!

Misadventure

I agree. We watched it a while ago.

Its exactly the same as the situation I found myself in when my daughter died.
Within 5 weeks I was sent for a medical, where it was decided that as I wasn't rocking or shaking, and had my grandson living with me that I was fit to go back to work.
I could barely get out of bed. My hope was that I may not wake up. My face was covered in huge pimples, and I was barely functioning.
Sent off to the job centre, expected to write a bright and breezy cv, and told I could commute up to 90 mins each way, although they accepted that I may need to look at doing different work. (As if that would make any difference)