Disabled Face Benefit Cuts ; Politics: Thousands in City May Be Hit by Tory Jobs Drive

Birmingham Mail › October 05, 2009

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THOUSANDS of Birmingham residents on incapacity benefit could have their payments cut under a Conservative government, if tests find they are able to work.

A pounds 25-a-week state help cut for up to half a million claimants expected to be proved by tests to be fit for work is planned to help pay for plans to use more private firms to get people into jobs. Tories will today publish plans to require everyone receiving the benefit to undergo a "work test" within three years of an election.

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Disabled Face Benefit Cuts ; Politics: Thousands in City May Be Hit by Tory Jobs Drive

If it is found that they are capable of working, they will be moved onto jobs...

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