Sentence examples for receiving incapacity from inspiring English sources

And yet successive ministers claim that 1 million people receiving incapacity benefit are fit to work.

Jenkins said the government should "halt the mass reassessment of people receiving incapacity benefit immediately, until the process is fixed".

Most of those receiving incapacity benefit, who should also have been assessed, are also not being tested.

Private firms will be brought in to assess the 2.64 million people in Britain now receiving incapacity benefit to see how many could be taken off it.

She was assessed by Atos, a private company employed by the government to carry out what it calls the "work capability assessment" to decide whether people receiving incapacity benefits should be sent back to work.

A year later, another piece of support was pulled from him: Luke had been receiving incapacity benefit for over 20 years, but after a work capability assessment (WCA) in late 2014, he was declared "fit for work".

Daniel Rogers, 38, from Manchester, received incapacity benefit (IB) for a number of years because he was unable to work owing to ill health.

A few years ago, a friend with severe mental health problems, who was obliged to attend one such assessment to determine if she should continue to receive incapacity benefit, found herself undergoing a foot examination.

The assessors do not ask GPs like me to provide any medical information about patients to help them make their decisions, even though someone may have received incapacity benefits for many years.

In 2011, 8% of the Swedish working-age population received sickness benefits and 7% received incapacity benefits [ 4].

In the following we use the term social event for persons who received incapacity benefits, were on sick leave or were unemployed.