If you’re long-term sick, brace yourself: Labour wants to send you back to work
Is Labour actually trolling people on long-term sickness and disability benefits?
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jonathan Ashworth has given a speech about “encouraging” people with medical conditions off state benefits and into work – at the Centre for Social Justice, the think tank founded by Iain Duncan Smith, the former WP secretary whose ‘reforms’ are believed to have killed off thousands of sick and disabled people.
He said Labour would abolish the requirement for claimants to re-take the hated Work Capability Assessment if they take a job that doesn’t work out for them and have to quit.
A Labour government would let them return to claiming benefits without reassessment if they do so within a year.
That’s all very well – but how much pressure would a Labour government pile on people claiming those benefits, to take jobs in the first place?
Read more here in the BBC article, here.
Notice there are no comments from anybody representing disabled people or those with long-term illnesses.
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Starmer and his pack of self serving tory rats Should be immediately removed from the labour party!