Almost one million people will be stripped of their incapacity benefit payments and forced to look for jobs under major reforms to the welfare system over the next three years, research has found.

The coalition often quote Tony Blair ruefully saying that he didn't "push forward fast enough over the NHS". The same cannot be said for the coalition, and not just on health. On many things, the coalition heedlessly charge onwards - their ideological compass acting as their only guide in the dark. One such prime example is over the changes to Incapacity Benefit.

There’s been one good thing about the DWP incapacity benefit statistics - the response it’s provoked from disabled people and disability organisations. Take a look at these excellent posts from Batsgirl and Latent Existence. And now there’s a particularly important intervention from the Disability Benefits Consortium – a coalition of fifty charities and campaigning organisa...

This is not formally benefit fraud: A scrounging father-of-two infuriated a judge yesterday after it emerged he has pocketed up to £16,000 in benefits – because he smokes cannabis. Paul Holland explained he was on anti-depressants after taking the drug since he was ten. But the 21-year-old’s addiction means he is able to rake in £60-a-week incapacity benefit on the grounds ...

CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, said today in a speech at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre: Thank you for coming this morning. The issue I want to talk about today can be summed up in a couple of stories. While out campaigning during the local elections, not for the first time, I met someone who had been on incapacity benefit for a decade.

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, said today in a speech entitled "Responsibility in 21st Century Britain" at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre: Thank you for coming this morning. The issue I want to talk about today can be summed up in a couple of stories. While out campaigning during the local elections, not for the first time, I met someone who had been on incapacity benefit for a deca...

As many as 800,000 people claiming incapacity benefit could return to work following the introduction of a new testing regime, the Government indicated yesterday.

The House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee is taking evidence from employment minister Chris Grayling for its inquiry looking at Migration from Incapacity Benefit to Employment and Support Allowances.

A dad-of-two was killed by the stress of facing the ­Government’s tough new medical test for benefit claimants, say his grieving family.David Groves, 56, died of a massive heart ­attack the night before his medical as he scoured the internet for ways to raise cash in case he lost his entitlement.He had claimed incapacity benefit for three years after doctors ordered him to stop ­...

Telegraph View: Bogus incapacity benefit doesn't just keep you stuck in front of inane daytime TV programmes.