CALLS have been made for an urgent review of the benefit system after it emerged dying patients are being forced to attend interviews to prove they are unfit for work.
CALLS have been made for an urgent review of the benefit system after it emerged dying patients are being forced to attend interviews to prove they are unfit for work.
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Martin Williams
Scottish doctors' leaders, cancer experts and a Glasgow MP insist the UK Government needs to rethink its work capability assessment (WCA) programme, saying it has a devastating effect on seriously ill people.
It is claimed that because regulations over who is assessed are discretionary, thousands of terminally ill patients are being forced to prove they are incapable of work or face losing their benefits
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