It appears the Government’s bid to get more long-term sickness benefit claimants back into work is being held up by a backlog of reassessments, appeals and people being deemed “sicker than expected”.
The number of jobseekers enrolling on the Government’s Work Programme – which pays private firms and charities to get people back into employment – has fallen to its lowest levels since the scheme began, official figures show. Just 47,330 people were sent to the prog...
