I Hate TLAs

TLAs - Three Letter Acronyms and why I hate them.

People are littering blogs, articles and other items with too many TLAs these days. 

I can understand it on Twitter, there's only 160 characters to use after all and "Department for Work and Pensions" does take up a lot more of them than DWP

But then, Esther McVey, the Minister for the Disabled (or should that be MfD) slathers her speech in an almost deserted House of Commons (HoC?) with PIP, DLA, WCA and others.  It's annoying that everything has to be reduced to a short form.  Income Support, was ocassionally shortened to IS (but rarely in speech), Social Security was rarely referred to as SS (pretty obvious why not).

I realise that someone speaking all day about Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA), needs a break, preferably not relying on any of these benefits.

Then along comes:

ILF Independant Living Fund
LHA Local Housing Allowance
CTB Council Tax Benefit
WTC Working Tax Credit
NHS National Health Sevice

So I'm getting to IHE (I've had enough) and GMAB (Give Me A Break) about it all!