Incapacity Claimants Face Tests
James Purnell has said that by April 2013 all of the 2.6 million people claiming incapacity benefits will have to take a rigorous test to see if they are capable of working.The work and pensions secretary said his move, based on recommendations from government welfare adviser David Freud, had left the Conservatives without a distinctive welfare policy, as well as lacking the means of raising money for plans that would end the so-called 'couple penalty' in the benefits system.
The Times reports that the Conservatives are claiming that Whitehall cannot afford to pay for the tests as only enough money has been set aside to assess 16 to 24-year-olds.
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Comment by florence 2nd June 2008
we all know someone claiming Incapacity Benefit, we know that the vast majority who do claim are really capable of working, they know how to work the system; sadly the GENUINE, sick and disabled find it less easy to get the Incapacity.
It seems the GP'S are the real reason so many work dodgers get it. To me it is just something to make the unemployment figures seem less, if the fraudsters were taken off it, i wondered just how high Unemployment figures would rise. |
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