NEARLY A MILLION HAVE SPENT 10 YEARS ON SICKNESS BENEFIT
Almost a million people have spent a decade on sickness benefit, new figures have revealed. According to research published by the Department for Work and Pensions, 889,000 people spent the last ten years on incapacity benefits.
The welfare minister Chris Grayling aims to tackle the number of people on sickness benefit through a new assessment system.
According to Grayling, "Under Labour, thousands of people have simply been cast aside by a welfare system that does nothing but put them in a queue for benefits and then forgets about them."
Grayling is bringing in "bounty hunters" to cut benefit fraud by £1bn. These private credit agencies will be paid to reduce the number of people illegally claiming benefits.
Other figures recently released by Grayling show that there are 264,000 households in the UK where no one has ever worked.
Source: Recruitment Today