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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Dan Bloom & Gemma Jones

DWP plans benefits shake up for disabled and sick claimants

The government is planning a major benefit shake up for millions of sick and disabled people in Britain.

Tory ministers are looking into changing the way fit-for-work tests happen as part of a change to the benefit system. It comes as ‘perverse’ fit-for-work tests could be ditched in their current form, as sources claim they make people “prove how incapable you are”

As a replacement, ministers are looking at a system that would let people keep claiming some sickness payments even if they return to work. But the plans are vague, not final and have previously worried campaigners, reported The Mirror.

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