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'There's a job out there for everyone'

Reforms to benefits may be a rude awakening to our sick-note culture, find David Leask and Stewart Paterson.

DAVID LEASK and STEWART PATERSON Nobody would call Paul McNeil a scrounger. A 26-year-old with agonising and crippling arthritis, he is determined to get off welfare.