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27/10/2008 9:34 am

Tom Lloyd

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Does scrapping incapacity benefit for new claimants represent a genuine drive to help people by getting them back into work - http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6501621

Or is this just an attempt to cut the amount of money that has to be paid out in benefits?

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Rosa Hooses

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27/10/2008 9:45 am

“The government aims to get one million people off incapacity benefits by 2015”...

“From today claimants who would previously have applied for incapacity benefit will have to apply for an employment and support allowance”...

Job done!

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Alan Savage

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27/10/2008 11:54 am

All the government has done is merely replace one benefit with a different one. Little has changed. There will be fewer jobs available now that there is a recession, so it looks like this new initiative is another smoke and mirror job to please the electorate.

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Joe Halewood

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28/10/2008 10:20 am

Tosh! This is not simply replacing one benefit with another. Govt has (a) labelled those on IB as scroungers; (b) created mass uncertainty to many vulnerable people and (c) has had scant regard to how this will manifest.

Manifestations will include significant arrears levels escalating - even if only while tenants move off benefit to employment (wherever these million jobs are???)

Complexity of benefit entitlement increased leading to more HB being stopped leading to more arrears accumulating - more evictions in PSL and RSL stock?

Even though the logistics of this make it smoke and mirrors - extrapolated it needs about 3000 full time posts being created at what cost to attempt to save some spurious alleged saving?- the link between disability and scrounging has been made, very clever and irreversible spin with distinctly unfortuntate consequences for social housing

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