"A government minister has insisted there is "no shortage of jobs", blaming unemployment on people's unwillingness to apply for the work available. Maria Miller, the minister for disabled people in the Department for Work and Pensions, said on Sunday night she believed the unemployment problem was down to a lack of "appetite" for the jobs on offer." - M F

in other words, disabled people aren't allowed choice with respect to career paths, they just have to suck it up and take whatever is given to them, or face being denied benefits? i haven't read the article, but the partial comment you posted has already riled me up. :( - Halil

She means generally there are many jobs everywhere and if people are unemployed whether they are disabled or not it is because they do not apply for jobs. Basically it has nothing to do with a recession, people must have become lazier in the past few years. - M F

If, as I suppose, the job situation in UK is worse than it is here, and here it is absolutely dire for disabled people or even for people who need to make a living by what they earn, this is a blatant and outrageous lie. :( - Maitani

According to official statistics the job situation in the UK is worse than in Germany. Obviously when there are many healthy people chasing the same job those with chronic bad health or disabilities stand basically no chance to get one. - M F

Correct, speaking from an employer's perspecting unless you have a great rapport in the interview with the person, anyone with "caveats" will seem like a big risk. That goes for disabilities, being foreign, being the wrong gender for the "standard", looking weird, being young, being old. Alas, that's the way it is. Good HR managers can put policies in place to compensate, but many are worse than normal managers - Iphigenie