Fit for Work Test for Claimants

Hounslow has been found to have a high number of people previously assessed as being on incapacity benefit who have had their claims reassessed as being ineleigible.  It is absolutely right that people who are fit for work should be seeking work and not claiming benefits which they have claimed fraudulently.  However I really do worry about the way the system is punishing people who clearly have such profound health problems that they are unable to hold down work of any kind.  The statistics published this week do not take account of the numbers who have succesfully appealed the original decision, when qualified medical people have understood why they are unable to work.  Also the current system does not take account of the, sadly, many people who have a variety of mental helath problems and for whom work is just too much to cope with, either all the time, or on "bad days".  I would like to see a review of the incapacity system that is firm but fiar, something that the Coalition Government has no interest in.   There are lots of people writing on this, but I started with Disability Rights UK http://tinyurl.com/ck6aflz