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I think it is mostly the usual shuffling about of things to position Labour against Conservative.
Some of it sounds good though. They are saying they are going to continue paying 40 a week on top of wages to people who come off incapacity benefit and go to work. They are also guaranteed to be put back on incapacity benefit it work doesn't, um, work out. So people can try going back to work and they won't lose money and they can still get benefits if it all goes tits up.
From here.
"Purnell also announced that by 2013 incapacity benefit will be replaced by a new benefit, employment support allowance, which will be harder to qualify for, requiring claimants to prove what they can do instead of what they cannot. It will, however, ensure that those with the "greatest needs" will get a higher benefit rate, rising from £86.35 to £102.10. This will have to be signed off by someone who is not the claimant's GP."
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