Great Britain: incapacity benefits will be severely limited

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The work and pensions secretary has announced the main measures of a forthcoming reform of incapacity benefit (IB). IB is due to the sick, the handicapped and people in incapacity: the government wants to put back to work 1 million of the 2,7 million recipients of the incapacity benefit (IB) in order to save 7 billion Pounds (more than 10 billion euros) per year. The total cost of social security benefits is 12,5 billion Pounds per year (more than 18 billion euros). (Ref. 0664)
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Studies show that even if fraud does not exceed 10 %, only 20% of IB recipients are in a real incapacity to work. And those who have not returned to work within two years, i.e.

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