Taxpayers can't afford this incapacity benefit

The Times splashes its revelation that almost two thousand people who are too fat to work have been paid a total of £4.4 million in benefit, with other payments going for instance to fifty sufferers from acne. Colourful though the details are, they obscure the main point. Around 2.7 million people currently claim Incapacity Benefit, which costs £12.5bn a year ...

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