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Welfare Reform Bill

Before the noble Lord sits down, he said that there was a sense that the work capacity assessment needs to be right and that he was thinking about arbitrary cut-offs and temporary classifications. Is he saying that, in order to get this right, we have to look again at the support group? Because of the functional impairment or prognosis of the people whom I am concerned about—those who are known to be facing a terminal prognosis of two years—perhaps they should automatically be in the support group. If that were the case, there would not be a problem
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
732 c22GC 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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