I have often wondered why it is when we as a Nation spend so many billions of pounds each year on the NHS that apparently 2.6 million adults are incapable of work and therefore are claiming Incapacity Benefit.
Chris Grayling MP the Conservatives’ Spokesman on these matters has argued that he believes there must be in the order of 200,000 of these claimants who are not entitled to the benefit and ought to be in work. Today, even the Government’s own adviser on the matter has come out and effectively agreed with that view. A large majority of claimants have never had an independent medical assessment as to their capacity for work and that assessment must be an absolute top priority to start to get this matter under control.