You need to be signed off by your GP in the first place.
The government employs doctors to assess you as well as they don't trust your GP. You get checked by the state doctor every year.
It's really hard to get incapacity benefit as well as jumping through the hoops you need to have a certain level of national insurance contributions. With my current claim I qualify - previously I haven't and have ended up on income support due to sickness - which has many times more claimants as this is where most people (especially those who haven't ever worked) end up.
Nobody can live on £60 a week. If you are unemployed you are fit and have the ability to look after yourself cheaply.
The crap about millions of scroungers dates back to when Labour were in opposition - they claimed the only reason the Tories had got unemployment down was that they'd stuck everyone on sickness benefit. This story seems to have stuck - that the disabled are on the scrounge - the undeserving poor living the high life on their 60 quid a week.
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You need to be signed off by your GP in the first place.
The government employs doctors to assess you as well as they don't trust your GP. You get checked by the state doctor every year.
It's really hard to get incapacity benefit as well as jumping through the hoops you need to have a certain level of national insurance contributions. With my current claim I qualify - previously I haven't and have ended up on income support due to sickness - which has many times more claimants as this is where most people (especially those who haven't ever worked) end up.
Nobody can live on £60 a week. If you are unemployed you are fit and have the ability to look after yourself cheaply.
The crap about millions of scroungers dates back to when Labour were in opposition - they claimed the only reason the Tories had got unemployment down was that they'd stuck everyone on sickness benefit. This story seems to have stuck - that the disabled are on the scrounge - the undeserving poor living the high life on their 60 quid a week.