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Thread #140808   Message #3239739
Posted By: GUEST,Bluesman
16-Oct-11 - 04:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: Nobody likes a Tory
Subject: RE: BS: Nobody likes a Tory
This government is doing a sterling job concerning the abuse of state benefits. I am pleased to read in the Times, that they will cut off incapacity payments if people challenge the ruling that they are fit to work.

The Welfare Minister, Chris Grayling says, under new proposals, hundreds of thousands of people on incapacity benefits could be cut off from support if they challenge the ruling that they are fit to work.

In April, the government began a reassessment of the 1.6m people claiming sickness benefit, as part of a plan to reduce the annual £7bn incapacity bill.

The new Work Capability Assessment (WCA) has stricter criteria and finds many more people able to work. However, serious concerns have been raised about the reliability of the tests, run by French company Atos. Charities such as Mind, the MS Society, and Parkinson's UK have all raised concerns about a rigidity of questioning that does not take into account the range of problems that might prevent people from working.

Tories will end the "loafer society" in Britain.