A disabled person might have feared going self-employed in the past because of the possibility of losing benefits and not being able to get them back at some future date. That would have been a psychological barrier. Could the Minister confirm—I am sure that he can and will be eager to—that that problem should be overcome by this system? It should be sympathetic to, and encouraging of, people becoming self-employed.
Welfare Reform Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Wigley
(Plaid Cymru)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 1 November 2011.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Welfare Reform Bill.
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