The Gov't continuing war on the most vulnerable continues,
Slipped into the budget was the announcement that
from April 2010, all long-term recipients of incapacity benefit will attend work capacity programmes.'
This is despite John Hutton when DWP Secretary promising the Works and Pensions Select Committee who were discussing the Welfare Reform Act that they had no plans to 'migrate' existing claimants.
Although it will take time and resources, (which the govt is not committing anyway) to process millions of claimants, ultimately, no matter how ill or disabled they are, many of the most vulnerable people in the U.K will have to face very invasive and brutal medical tests, loss of benefits and pushed into often unsuitable training and work.
With the Welfare Reform Act 2007, the Freud Review/ Welfare Green Paper, and now ‘Freud Redux’, plus others, the scope, speed and, yes, ferocity of welfare reform has been breath-taking. One can see the end of a rights based welfare system in the UK, coupled with a move to a privatised and minimal U.S model with only the big private training companies benefiting.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2008/03/benefit_tests.html
Slipped into the budget was the announcement that
from April 2010, all long-term recipients of incapacity benefit will attend work capacity programmes.'
This is despite John Hutton when DWP Secretary promising the Works and Pensions Select Committee who were discussing the Welfare Reform Act that they had no plans to 'migrate' existing claimants.
Although it will take time and resources, (which the govt is not committing anyway) to process millions of claimants, ultimately, no matter how ill or disabled they are, many of the most vulnerable people in the U.K will have to face very invasive and brutal medical tests, loss of benefits and pushed into often unsuitable training and work.
With the Welfare Reform Act 2007, the Freud Review/ Welfare Green Paper, and now ‘Freud Redux’, plus others, the scope, speed and, yes, ferocity of welfare reform has been breath-taking. One can see the end of a rights based welfare system in the UK, coupled with a move to a privatised and minimal U.S model with only the big private training companies benefiting.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2008/03/benefit_tests.html
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