Isabel Oakeshott was on the panel on last night’s Question Time on BBC.
The question was asked: “What’s the best way to help people with disabilities into work?”
It comes as ‘An estimated 370,000 people with disabilities and chronic health conditions will be ineligible for incapacity benefits worth an extra £5,000 a year and forced to look for work under planned reforms unveiled by the chancellor in the autumn statement,’ reports The Guardian.
Tom Waters, an associate director at IFS, said: “Of the 370,000 people who will lose out from this reform, the overwhelming majority are expected to nonetheless remain on benefits, just with a lower level of income. Only 10,000 – 2.7% of those affected – are expected to move into work.”
Isabel Oakeshott
This was Oakeshott’s take on the plan…
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