Monday, November 19, 2007

Number Crunching

20,000 - Peter Hain's target for reducting incapacity benefit claimants thanks to "tougher work tests".

2,400,000 - Incapacity benefit claimants in the UK.
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3 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

Spot on!

Although this says 2.64 million claimants.

11:55 am
Anonymous said...

Less than 1% would be taken off disability benefit by Hain's proposal, under ideal conditions. Problem is, every "client" taken off benefit then writes to his/her MP who automatically objects. Next, an appeal is launched to a tribunal of Labour apointees, who reinstate the benefit. This is widely known as joined up NuLabour government, and it maintains a maximum voter base (especially in Wales and Scotland) and delivers a total muslim vote direct from tribal elders responsable for completing postal votes.

5:22 pm
Snafu said...

Anonymous, not quite sure how the Muslim vote impacts this!

Mind you, such 'tests' will create opportunities for more non-jobs.

Merely reducing the benefits after one year and associated council tax benefits would have a far greater incentive on the work shy. The only problem is that such a course of action does not employ any more civil servants!

6:04 pm

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