At least 10,000 British emigrants are receiving sickness benefits of up to £94 a week while living abroad, according to figures published yesterday.

At least 10,000 British emigrants are receiving sickness benefits of up to £94 a week while living abroad, according to figures published yesterday.

The Commons have already passed, and the Lords are currently voting on, the Welfare Reform Bill. It contains provisions which will scrap the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and replace it with the Personal Independence Payment (PIP). It also contains changes to time limit receipt of contributory Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) (a sickness and disability

Number on sickness benefits expected to be referred for specialist help in finding work has been sharply scaled back

Council inspectors should start monitoring what private sector employees eat at work in order to help improve the country's health and to reduce sickness rates, a report has concluded.

The Prime Minister has backed the proposal for a new independent service to sign workers' long-term sicknotes, instead of GPs. The plan, which Pete wrote about at the weekend, is aimed at ensuring that people on sick pay or sickness-related benefits really are too ill to work. Cameron describes how it would work in today's Mail: 'The independent service would be free to all employer...

Should GPs be able to sign people off sick? Not at all, according to the draft copy of a government-commissioned review into sickness absence. It proposes setting up a new, separate and indpendent body to assess would-be sick leavers, on the grounds that doctors have no incentive — nor, perhaps, the specific knowledge — to prod and coax people back towards employment. Those who are sig...

People should no longer be signed off for long-term sickness by GPs but by an assessment service, a government-backed review says.

So at a time of the worst recession for a generation, the BBC make another programme about benefit cheats? With Sickness benefit fraud at just 0.5%, the BBC make another programme about benefit cheats? With Disability benefit fraud at just 0.3% the BBC make another programme about benefit cheats?

All my life I wanted to work. I wanted to do something important. I did everything society told me I should. I worked hard, I went to college despite being told I'd never pass due to sickness absence. I went to uni despite being told by well meaning doctors not to go. I worked. Even until it nearly killed me.