When deciding on the location of terrestrial protected areas, planners typically focus only on terrestrial conservation goals, ignoring potential linked benefits to marine ecosystems.
Who loses: Disabled people who need assistance with going to the toilet and dressing are set to get lower entitlements of PIP and there will be a knock-on effect on a range of linked benefits.
It will consider the case "for linking benefit entitlements to take up of appropriate treatment".
Only 10percentt of the responses were "clean offers": that is, offers that did not link benefit limits or future premium increases to the medical history of the applicant.
The report suggests linking benefit payments to claimants' lifestyles, and notes that some councils have introduced schemes allowing GPs to prescribe exercise at swimming pools, yoga, gyms and walking clubs.
Linking benefit to a requirement to undergo treatment would set a dangerous precedent for people with physical or mental health problems and would be against the principles for healthcare set out in the NHS Constitution".
One sound approach would be to link benefit levels to life expectancy, so that as people live longer, future benefits would be modestly reduced while payroll taxes that support Social Security would be modestly increased.
A Police Scotland report says there is "anecdotal evidence" to link benefit changes to a rise in robberies.
The practice of linking benefits to inflation is relatively recent.
Linking benefits to treatment sounds suspiciously like a coercive measure to "incentivise" people who would not otherwise have had treatment to accept it.
The IPPR wants to restore the popularity of welfare by linking benefits more closely to contributions, restoring what it says is a lost sense of fairness.
