"Huge doubts have been cast over the millions claiming sickness benefit after it emerged that up to nine in ten applicants for the handout are now being turned down.Tough rules being trialled across the country mean that 65 per cent of new claimants are being told they are fit to work. In some areas the figure is 90 per cent.
Under the old, more lenient, incapacity benefit regime, two thirds of applicants had their claims accepted.
The figures raise huge questions over how many of the 2.6million receiving sickness benefit are genuinely too ill to work.
Critics have long claimed that hundreds of thousands are 'malingering' at home on taxpayer-funded benefits.
Now, every person receiving handouts will have their claims re-assessed between 2010 and 2013 - raising the possibility that many could be declared fit."
Maybe it is just the circles I move in but I know a number of people on Sick Benefits who are clearly extremely deserving. Surely, nobody denies support to the genuine.
Having dumped anybody and everybody onto these numbers to hide unemployment figures under The Major Government - a con happily continuing under Labour - the chickens have come home to roost. People drawing such benefits used to be a not unreasonable 1.3 million. It is impossible to believe that a nation becomes 'twice as sick' within the matter of a decade.
The problem is now a Scriptural one - but without the possibility of a Scriptural resolution. Weeds have been planted deliberately by 'an enemy' amongst the 'good crops'. Just how do we sort them out without damaging the genuine claimants?
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