The greatest handicap facing the disabled is the system

4th August 2006
By Susan Scott-Parker

While launching the Welfare Reform Bill at the beginning of July, John Hutton told the Today programme: ‘The rather grim statistic is that if you have been on incapacity benefit for more than two years, you are more likely to die or retire than ever get back to work. That’s simply not good enough. What we want to do is to measure people’s capacity to work more intelligently rather than simply measure their incapacity to work. We’ve got to see people as potential job…