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Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 6,912 Send Message	Sue	Report	19 Jul 2008 11:38
	I'd like to see their definition of disabled people with the greatest needs! That probably equates to DEAD. Can you tell I am a cynic? Sue
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 4,517 Send Message	Jenxx	Report	19 Jul 2008 11:35
	Bring it on Jenxx
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	InspectorGreenPen	Report	19 Jul 2008 11:34
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	A leaked document suggests that the government are set to amnounce radical changes to the benefits system. Incapacity benefit is to be scrapped in a radical shake up and unemployed people claiming income support will also be made to carry out community service if they fail to find a job after a year. And drug addicts will have benefits docked unless they can prove they are getting treatment to kick their habit. Only disabled people "with the greatest needs" and full-time carers will be exempt from being expected to find work in future. Long-term income support claimants will be given work to do in return for benefits in an attempt to make them find a job, and lone parents will also be expected to seek work when their youngest child reaches seven. The changes are likely to be opposed by many in the Labour Party, but are likely to be welcomed by the other parties. What do you think?