Sentence examples for disabled benefit from inspiring English sources

Asked to provide data on the numbers of disabled benefit claimants facing sanctions, the delegation responded that it was "less than 1%" (a month).

The company that carries out "fitness for work" tests on disabled benefit claims is seeking an early exit from its contract with the Government in the face of persistent death threats to staff.

The government has drawn up plans to withdraw £71 a week from sick and disabled benefit claimants if they fail to take steps to get back into the workplace.

Today, disabled people are being made to feel of little use or lazy, with all the publicity surrounding welfare reform, forcing "scroungers" back into work, and some portions of the media perpetuating myths about disabled benefit claimants being fraudsters.

As it is, this is being proposed by a DWP so "shattered" by repeated failings that last month the thinktank, Demos, recommended that the department be stripped of its duties to even deal with disabled benefit claimants.

We are piloting a scheme to help disabled welfare benefit applicants, providing assistance at work capability assessments and at tribunals.

I find very little comfort in the rallying cry for maintenance of disabled benefits.

While Iain Duncan Smith does not appear to object to the proposed changes in disabled benefits per se, he very much minded their inclusion in a budget "that benefits higher earning taxpayers".

Karen Lumley MP released the letter, which said the budget plans risked looking like a "sustained attack on disabled benefits by the government" and would cause long-term damage to its reputation.

Best quote: "People who claim disabled benefits but who are not disabled are not disabled people - it's people who are pretending to be disabled to steal money off the taxpayer and campaigners should be pleased that we are exposing people".

The Department for Work and Pensions is to bring in additional providers alongside Atos Healthcare to administer the work capability assessment (WCA) for disabled benefits claimants, after a government review admitted that reports by Atos assessors were of unacceptably poor quality.