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Mother-of-12 who swindled £52,000 in benefits by claiming her healthy children were disabled walks free from court - Daily Mail 28th October 2009
"A mother-of-12 who claimed her healthy children were disabled to extract more than £52,000 in state benefits walked free from court today.
Marrie Freeman, 42, claimed nine of her children and a fictitious daughter were disabled to obtain tax credits."
Melissa Viney asks if the new benefit testing penalise genuinely ill people - The Guardian 28th October 2009
"Critics of new medical tests aimed at getting claimants off benefits and into work say they are target-driven measures that penalise genuinely ill people."
Cameron pledges end to poverty trap for jobless - The Independent 28th October 2009
"Some of Britain's unemployed are worse off when they accept a job, David Cameron claimed yesterday as he promised to simplify the country's benefits system and put an end to the "poverty trap"."
The first picture of the woman who forced her healthy son into a wheelchair and convinced doctors he was sick - Daily Mail 23rd October 2009
"By any standards, it was a tear-jerking scene: a devoted mother presenting her desperately sick little boy to Camilla Parker Bowles at Westminster Abbey and helping him collect his Children of Courage medal.
Earlier that day, December 14, 2005, Lisa Hayden-Johnson took her five-year-old wheelchair-bound son to 10 Downing Street to have breakfast with Tony and Cherie Blair. "
Burnham rules out plan to scrap disability benefit - The Guardian 22nd October 2009
"Health secretary admits there is still age discrimination in the NHS"
Mother faces jail for faking son’s illness and claiming benefits - The Times 17th October 2009
"A mother who convinced doctors that her son was the “sickest child in Britain” is facing jail for falsely claiming £130,000 in disability benefits.
The woman kept her son confined to a wheelchair fitted with oxygen bottles, fed him a deliberately unhealthy diet and allowed him to undergo an unnecessary exploratory operation."
Just one in 20 sickness benefit applicant 'permanently unable to work' - Daily Telegraph 14th October 2009
"Just one in 20 people applying for disability benefit are permanently unable to work, according to official statistics. "
Just one in six incapacity benefit claimants 'is genuine' as tough new test reveals TWO MILLION could be cheating - Daily Mail 14th October 2009
"The scale of Britain’s sicknote culture was laid bare last night as it emerged that only one in six adults claiming incapacity benefit may be entitled to do so.
Figures suggest that only around 400,000 men and women out of the 2.6million who claim the handouts are too sick too work. "
Your daughter is not disabled enough: Mother's fury as 10-year-old with prosthetic leg suffers benefits penalty for trying to be normal - Daily Mail 10th October 2009
"For ten-year-old Devon Taverner, overcoming adversity is a way of life as she fights to be just another normal little girl.
But all her bravery in dealing with being born with a severely disabled leg could not prepare her for the cruellest of blows delivered by benefits bureaucrats. "
Public sector pay and pension plans leave experts confused - The Guardian 6th October 2009
"Economists were left confused tonight and unions critical about the plethora of public sector pay freezes and pension age announcements by the Conservatives and the government, but said neither party's proposals were close to what is needed to return public finances to health."
George Osborne's gamble – are the voters ready to take their medicine? - The Guardian 7th October 2009
"Tories reveal details of plan to tackle deficit but critics say measures will save less than claimed and only 'dent' spending"
George Osborne lifts veil on his age of austerity - The Guardian 7th October 2009
"The Conservatives today took their biggest political gamble in a generation when the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, urged the nation to respect his honesty by setting out a painful, if carefully pitched, package of spending cuts."
Unions attack Tory austerity pledge - The Guardian 7th October 2009
"The Tories face a possible summer of discontent of industrial action if they win the next General Election after angering unions by warning public sector pay and pensions would be squeezed to help cut the state deficit.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne said a one-year wage freeze and a pensions cap would form part of a £23 billion austerity package during the next Parliament."
Osborne bets the election on public sector pay - The Independent 7th October 2009
"Tories risk alienating four million voters with pledge to block wage increases for state employees earning more than £18,000"
Andrew Grice: Cameron is determined to win a mandate for cuts - The Independent 7th October 2009
"Yesterday's package ensures a debate on real cuts. The phoney war about efficiency savings is over"
Tories cut to the chase as George Osborne heralds age of austerity - The Times 7th October 2009
"The Conservative leadership took a massive electoral gamble yesterday by offering years of pain to voters in the hope of being rewarded for honestly in facing up to the nation’s plight.
George Osborne heralded an age of austerity as he pledged to freeze the pay of millions of public sector workers, cut benefits enjoyed by the middle classes and cap civil service pensions at £50,000 a year."
The credibility test - The Times 7th October 2009
"The Shadow Chancellor yesterday took the risk of delivering bad news to his party conference speech. His honesty in the face of the facts means that he grew in stature"
Age of austerity beckons as Osborne tackles sea of debt - The Times 7th October 2009
"George Osborne insisted yesterday that he had been straight with the British people as he asked millions to accept a pay freeze and benefit cuts as the price for tackling the country’s mountain of debt. "
Cameron unveils 'bold' jobs package - The Guardian 5th October 2009
"David Cameron has unveiled what he proclaimed as "the biggest, boldest programme to get Britain working that this country has ever seen".
The Tory package included a new promise to waive employer national insurance on the first 10 employees of any new business created within the first two years of a Tory government, which shadow chancellor George Osborne said could create 60,000 jobs."
2.6 million on incapacity benefits to face tough new Tory tests - Daily Telegraph 5th October 2009
"More than two million Britons claiming incapacity benefit face tough "back to work" medical tests under proposals to be announced at the Conservative Party's conference. "
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