In the past, he has pledged to crack down on those responsible for fraud and error in welfare benefits.
Such adjustments recognize deficiencies in available estimates, but applying them uniformly to a variety of cardiorespiratory conditions could introduce error in benefits assessments.
More money is lost due to error in the benefits system than is lost to fraud.
So alongside plans to create a new universal credit, the bill contains a series of measures to tackle fraud and error in the benefits system, which the government believes can save £2bn a year.
Sarah Teather, who on Tuesday was one of the pitifully few (four) Lib Dems voting against the welfare bill, described the so-called "skivers" she encounters in her constituency office: "People who come to my constituency office these days for help with some kind of error in their benefits often spend the first few minutes trying to justify their worth.
It instead created an existential and somewhat touchy question: Should a team lobby for one of its own players to be charged with an error in order to benefit a teammate?
Britain's social security system is failing thousands of its most vulnerable claimants, with delays and errors in processing welfare benefits leaving many sick and disabled people, including some with cancer, for months without income.
These mismatches are bigger for 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, and smaller in 2007, 2012 and 2013 due to the correction of a codifing error in permanent disability benefits for persons over 65.
Page B4 AUDIT FINDS PENSION ERRORS The federal agency that takes over failing pension plans in corporate bankruptcies has made errors in calculating benefits, according to an audit.
