The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have launched an online “benefits adviser” service via the Directgov website. The new service is designed to give customers quicker information about their records, and their potential entitlements, by providing a signposting service on benefits that may be relevant to the customer’s circumstances. For more information see http://benefitsadviser.direct.gov.uk/

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David Reilly, a disabled person, questions the rationale behind the Westminster government’s reforms to incapacity benefits.   His concerns include the fact the barriers to employment faced by many disabled people are ignored, the reforms insinuate that disabled people have the wrong attitude to working and those on incapacity benefit are skivers or scroungers and fundamentally that the [...]

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Tougher tests for incapacity benefit claimants could force new applicants to find work if they can manage tasks such as walking more than 30 metres on level ground without pain or holding a one litre jug filled with liquid.  Ministers  set out their latest attempts to reduce the sickness and disability claimant count, currently at [...]

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