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Welfare Reform

Asked if the welfare reform green paper’s priority was in the same order as the schools white paper, the PMOS said it was a separate issue that was distinct for its own reasons, which were to encourage people back to work. 90% of those surveyed on IB said they wanted to get back to work. Therefore you had to address how best to do that. The green paper would set that case out. Put to him that there was a suggestion that it would also include an announcement on the CSA, the PMOS said that was not something he was aware of. Asked if there was any indication yet of the timescale for developing the green paper into a white one, the PMOS said he would check but did not think we had given an indication yet. Asked if it was correct that the Government thought that changing the name of IB would help the process of reform and change attitudes, the PMOS said that John Hutton had indicated yesterday that there would be a new name.

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I have been on Incapacity Benefit for the last three years due to severe depression.
I have been waiting for counselling for the same length of time,i waited for two years with my local authrorities Health Trust only to be told that they couldn’t see me as they were losing a counsellor and she wouldn’t be replaced.I have been on a gay charities list for the last year and they still can’t give me a start date.
The government isn’t putting any funding into the mental Health Services so how do they expect people to get back to work?
The Government should stop bashing the vulnerable and put its money where its mouth is.
Comment by Phillip Hart — 24 Jan 2006 on 2:07 pm | Link

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