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Is Disability the New Welfare?
Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
The government in Britain recently did something interesting.It asked everyone receiving an "incapacity benefit" — a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms — to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too disabled to work. A third of recipients (878,000 people) didn't even bother and dropped out of the program rather than be examined. Of those tested, more than half (55%) were found fit for work and a quarter were found fit for some work.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/02/is_disability_the_new_welfare_117757.html
The government in Britain recently did something interesting.It asked everyone receiving an "incapacity benefit" — a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms — to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too disabled to work. A third of recipients (878,000 people) didn't even bother and dropped out of the program rather than be examined. Of those tested, more than half (55%) were found fit for work and a quarter were found fit for some work.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/02/is_disability_the_new_welfare_117757.html
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