Nick Clegg is under pressure from within his own party to resist welfare cuts in George Osborne's Autumn Statement amid reports the chancellor may choose to not raise benefits in line with inflation.
As disabled people are re-assessed by Atos, many are shocked to see the mammoth bonus handed out.
Despite the alleged 'payment by results' model much hyped by Iain Duncan Smith, tax payers could have paid out up to £60,000 for every job gained by sickness or disability claimants on the Work Programme.
LABOUR and the SNP demanded a halt to planned closures until an investigation is carried out in a debate that followed the Record exposing concerns about the axing of the factory in Springburn, Glasgow.
Whilst the Olympic opening ceremony, quite fairly, glorified our National Health Service, it is nonetheless worth remembering the real state of affairs for a significant number of Britain's sick. In April of this year, around 3400 people in Oxford and 10,000 in the county of Oxfordshire were subsisting on Incapacity Benefit (the allowance for those physically unable to work, which ranges within the modest bounds of £88-£105 weekly. Of that number, roughly two in three were told they were fit to engage in some sort of work. Employment Minister Chris Grayling would hail the figures, calling the current system 'a waste of human life'- supremely ironic given that an average of thirty-two people nationally died every week after failing the new incapacity benefit tests in 2011. Between January and August 2011, 1,100 claimants in the 'work-related activity group' alone died. Clearly, mistakes are being made (and have been made since New Labour let the likes of assessors Atos Healthcare loose on the disabled communit
Welfare claimants could be forced to work without pay and be stripped of benefits under scheme starting on Mondaiv Malik
