Who Qualifies for Incapacity Benefit, and Why the System Is Being Tightened Up
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UNDER proposals announced yesterday, incapacity benefit will be renamed the employment and support allowance from 2008. The aim is to cut the 2.7million people on incapacity benefit today by one million over the next 10 years, saving [GBP]7bn annually.
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Who Qualifies for Incapacity Benefit, and Why the System Is Being Tightened Up
Around 2.67 million sick and disabled people claim incapacity benefit (IB) in the UK. The number of claimants has trebled since the late 1970s when just...
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