However, the main features of the activation strategies include the enforcement of strict eligibility criteria for benefit recipients together with the provision of effective re-employment services.
In contrast to this, countries with rather implicitly defined benefit baskets, such as England and Germany, define very transparent criteria for benefit exclusion, although lists with excluded services are minor compared to explicitly oriented countries.
Certainly they will scrutinise any legislation to see whether new criteria for benefits is compatible with EU rules and whether it discriminates against non-British EU workers.
Lynd and others proposed 10 criteria for benefit-harm assessments--be universal, inclusive, comprehensive, patient-sensitive, easily interpreted consider preferences, define when benefits outweigh harms, incorporate uncertainty, be flexible and integrate economic evaluations) [ 41].
These certificates have great impact on whether the employer or, after two weeks of sick leave, the Social Insurance Office, decides that the patient fulfils the criteria for benefits or not [ 9].
Furthermore, in many European countries the determination of a health condition is required as a key criterion for disability benefits eligibility [ 5], Annex] although health conditions taken by themselves are usually only loosely correlated with work ability limitations [ 6].
Five of these (20%) met our criteria for clinical benefit following treatment with capecitabine, and in one case clinical benefit could not be evaluated because of missing data.
This is completely at odds with the narrowed criteria for child benefit and hardly suggests targeting resources on those most in need.
The MS Society warns that the mobility criteria for the benefit are too strict; that those who are able to walk even slightly further than 20 metres, even using sticks, will not qualify for the benefit's enhanced rate.
The fact is that eligibility criteria for this benefit are set incredibly high, while flaws in the assessment mean many people with a significant level of impairment are declared fit for work.
In that case in March last year, judges found that size criteria for housing benefit in the private sector could discriminate against disabled children who needed a bedroom each because of health needs.
