[WillowTheWhisp]

Sorry to have to disagree with you Jen but this link would seem to indicate otherwise.

The Tories have also unveiled plans to cut the number of people on incapacity
benefit by 200,000.

All 2.64 million incapacity benefit claimants would be reassessed by doctors and, if passed fit for work, placed on Jobseekers' Allowance, a benefit cut of £20 a week.


Mr Cameron told BBC Breakfast: "We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35.

"Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right.

"I think we have got to make changes and this is a genuinely thought-through and worked-out package which I think will help get more people into work and help them make better lives for themselves and their families."

Asked if working for benefits, rather than the national minimum wage, would be an affront to people's dignity, he said: "Where is the dignity in sitting at home, dependent on the state, not having a job?"

That was in reply to your post before Garinda's.

They seem to keep moving the goalposts. I have a friend who was awarded DLA for life and yet has had to go for two further medicals since then!