Search results for ‘incapacity benefit’
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Incapacity benefit test ‘leaves people feeling suicidal’
The government’s aim of helping people with disabilities into work is “laudable” but the process causes anxiety, MPs say. Channel 4 News hears the test is like “psychological warfare”.
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Incapacity benefit paid to thousands for addictions
Incapacity benefit is paid to 81,000 people who are obese or have addictions according to the Government. One charity tells Channel 4 News the decision to release the data is “deeply unfortunate”.
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Incapacity benefit reassessment begins
Plans to reassess people who receive incapacity benefit to check if they are “fit for work” will be rolled out this week. One disabled campaigner tell Channel 4 News her fears over the changes.
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FactCheck: Esther McVey’s claim about ‘generous’ UK disability benefits
The Conservative leadership hopeful said the UK is “one of the most generous countries” for disability benefits.
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FactCheck: the truth about disability benefits cuts
George Osborne insists the government is increasing the money it spends on disabled people, even as he is criticised for the latest cut. Who’s right?
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Benefits removal fear ‘was trigger for woman’s suicide’
As a coroner says the upset caused by the potential withdrawal of benefits triggered the suicide of Julia Kelly, Channel 4 News looks at the wider impact of benefit changes on vulnerable claimants.
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FactCheck: how many benefits claimants are addicts?
Iain Duncan Smith wants to see benefits loaded onto cards to stop claimants spending cash on drugs and booze. How big is the problem?
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Over half of sickness benefit claims rejected – new figures
Almost a million people have been found fit to work by the Department of Work and Pensions over the last five years.
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Soaring cost of disabled benefit appeals revealed
The cost of appeals against disabled benefit sanctions has more than trebled in four years, the government has revealed.
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New benefit system dogged by ‘endless appeals’
Channel 4 News Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long finds the government’s employment support allowance is being dogged by endless and repeated appeals as claimants are found fit, then unfit, for work.
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Benefits for offenders targeted by Cameron
Courts are to be given powers to strip criminals of up to £25 of their benefits payouts per week, in a move designed to hit back at many rioters who rampaged throughout England in August.
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Is Miliband right about benefit cuts to cancer patients?
Ed Miliband picked an emotive subject when he claimed the Welfare Bill would see 7,000 cancer patients lose almost £100 a week in benefits. “How can that be right?” he asked. FactCheck investigates.
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FactCheck: Is the Government’s new benefits policy fit to work or shirking its duties?
Half a million people ‘on the sick’ are really fit to work, the Government estimates. But how realistic are the claims behind the benefits shake-up?
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Benefits reform: disabled people ‘terrified’ by changes
As the Welfare Reform Bill progresses through Parliament, disabled writer Lucy Glennon writes for Channel 4 News that the reforms could see the disabled become poor, isolated, and forgotten.
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Disabled fear losing out from benefit reform
The benefits system overhaul will make it better for all, the Government says, as the Welfare Bill comes out. But many, including people with disabilities, tell Channel 4 News they fear losing out.