Nearly a third of people claiming ’sicknote’ benefits have been doing so for more than a decade, new figures showed yesterday. More than 800,000 people have been paid Incapacity Benefit or similar state handouts for illness for more than ten years. They make up over 30 per cent of the 2.64 million people who live on the state sick note payment
'Despite all the grandiose promises and the billions of pounds that have been spent, they have delivered virtually no improvement for the most vulnerable in our society.' Numbers claiming sickness benefits exploded in the 1980s when old…
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