Is there any relationship between welfare dependency, unemployment benefit frauds and DLA?
None whatsoever. The majority of DLA claimants are in paid work. Many claimants require the benefit to purchase extra services, treatment, equipment and medication that actually ensure they can stay in work, rather than leave paid employment. For example, it may pay for screen reader software, hearing aid or tactile computer keyboard that allows a disabled person to work just like anyone else. Despite this fact, The Guardian has written “the thinking is that the 40% rise of the number of working-age people on the benefit since 1997 is more to do with shirking than working”. The chancellor himself stated the move will “significantly improve incentives to work”.
