Basically the public aren't being told the truth because the government isn't being honest about the new assessment tests - and its only if you need to go on a sickness benefit or are disabled that you find out how skewed and sometimes impossible the system now is. The right wing press have been bombarding the public with headlines of people defrauding the benefits system at the same as politicians have decided that work, or more work, is the salvation for people claiming any kind of benefit or who don't have a job and legitimate reasons are being invalidated.

The situation is very worrying for people who have been dependent on the state either partially or totally, and who have no other source of support.