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shawn
                              

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govt reviewing permitted work rules ??
Tue 06-Jul-04 09:01 AM

from hansard yesterady -

'Mr. Luff (Mid-Worcestershire) (Con): 'I am glad that the Government think that they are winning their war on benefit fraud—we all want them to do so—but at what cost is that war being won? ...The combination of the abolition of the therapeutic work rule and the introduction of the permitted work rule and notional earnings rule has destroyed his life. Will the Government reconsider the way in which the rules work ...

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Mr. Chris Pond): We are reviewing those rules ...
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/cm040705/debtext/40705-02.htm#40705-02_spnew0

  

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