How real is Daniel's situation?

Haha - nothing funnier or more hypocritical than a right-wing "benefits scrounger." Oh I'm sure you "really deserve it" but everyone else is a moocher. It reminds me of dumb white-trash hicks marching around at "Tea Party" and Trump rallies with signs "Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare/Social Security."

You may have been one of the many who get through the system and are supported by the system. I am an Employment Advisor working within mental health services, and I have clients who have had no difficulties at all. However, there are also many of my clients who have had to go through enormous amounts of stress to claim what is their entitlement.
There have been drastic changes to the way the system has been administrated in the last five years. Perhaps rightly so, but those changes have intentionally made it harder to claim a health related benefit - switch from one means-tested benefit to another means-tested benefit and all other entitlements are automatically switched off while the claim is processed. Once, if you wanted to appeal a decision, you could do so and still keep your benefit, at a reduced rate, while the appeal was being heard; that is no longer an option, your benefit is stopped until your appeal, or Mandatory Reconsideration, is heard and still won't be reinstated if you are turned down again while you wait go to Tribunal, which can take months. By all means challenge and re-assess, but don't leave people without a means to live while you're doing it. And it's nice to know that there are examples of the system working.

Madonna's Like a Virgin ... it's a metaphor ...

Just like that?! I don't think so. Tin Tin's talking rubbish. Nothing needed to be invented. What happens in the film happens to thousands. Many die.

Tin Tin-3 - what an absolute load of rubbish you spout! my partner who has an illness that she will never get better from but only worse has had her benefit cut by over half!!she now has under £250 a month to live off!! even though she was signed of for life by GPs, etc, this is happening to 1000s upon 1000s of people.. get in the real world ans listen to people not the Torie government

Tin Tin-3, you are a complete moron.

"Paul Turner

The 52-year-old dad-of-one, from Erdington, died from ischaemic heart disease after Government assessors had his benefits stopped and ruled he was fit for work.

According to the Birmingham Mail, Mr Turner was claiming around £400 per month incapacity benefit until he was called in for a review at the Midlands disability benefits centre in January 2012. Three weeks later he received a letter stating he was not entitled to the new Employment and Support Allowance – the payment that had replaced Incapacity Benefit."

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/birmingham-dad-dies-of-heart-condition-187961

It's unfortunately very true, we live in a society that has demonised the situation of losing your job or not being able to work. Probably instilled by government policy controlling the"scrounged" media feeding frenzy IMHO.

The problem with people like Tin Tin-3 is that if they haven't experienced it and nobody they know has then it's all fabrication. This is such a narrow-minded position to take that it's astonishing how anyone of the least intelligence could take it. As the many news reports linked in this thread and the posts by people working in the field show the situation depicted in the film is all too real.

Tin Tin-3, my advice to you (and it's well-meant) is to try to understand that it's possible that the things you experience are not a universal rule. The evidence that it's not so in this case is overwhelming. Look at it and learn.

A couple of months now since release and the film is already forgotten.

Cathy Come Home still remembered 50 years later.

Draw your own conclusions about this ham-handed, fictitious lefty crap.

...and that's from someone currently on ESA.