Discuss - Welfare Work Capability Testing - Work capability testing for disabled claiming benefits

Should 'work capability testing' be carried out on disabled people wanting to claim benefits?

Conservative Control the welfare budget so we save money and reward work.

Labour More people with disabilities and health conditions will be helped to move into work from Incapacity Benefit and Employment Support Allowance, as we extend the use of our tough-but-fair work capability test

Liberal Democrat Introduction of a single assessment process across different disability benefits, based on real world tests of capability and functionality, http://www.libdems.org.uk/f11_reforming_the_welfare_system

Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru is opposed to the welfare reform which links benefit payments to work and threatens benefit sanctions for those unable to meet unfair and unrealistic government demands. Plaid believes that this will simply result in a vicious cycle of people who live between in-work and out-of-work poverty.

Respect Party The Respect Party claim that the methods behind work capability testing has been unsuccessful, saying that it attempts to 'paint people on benefits as the cause of our problems'. Respect call for ATOS (the firm behind the fit-for-work scheme) should be scrapped, and a comprehensive welfare system to be provided for those who need it. Source: http://www.respectparty.org/national/abolish-atos/

SNP The SNP has expressed concern at a report in today’s Daily Record showing that almost 10,000 sick and disabled people in Scotland who had undertaken Work Capability Assessments were wrongly told they were fit for work. http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2014/feb/msp-criticises-work-capability-assessment-failures

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