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@djilukjilly wrote:

I suppose a lot kicked off the DSS were the middle eastern drug  families and others of that ilk. I don’t have any objection to that.

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Cancelling benefits to people who did not qualify to start with is a totally different issue to people being now consider not ill/disabled enough.  Not that the requirements were ever very lenient.  About 20 years ago, when I was being treated for cancer, I met at the hospital young women with terminal cancer.  She was divorced with 2 small children, and she had to report to the dole office once a fortnight to get her "sickness benefit", towards the end of her life the benefit was  times cut off several, because she was too sick to make it. Yet, they would not give her the disability pension because somehow she did not qualify. 

I wonder how many of the people who lost their disability pension were just too ill or weak to fight for their rights, or do not have a doctor who put the right words on the certificate.