Cameron pledges effort to get addicts off benefits and into work

Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed the government is looking into measures to reduce the number of incapacity benefits claimants with an illness related to either alcoholism, drug abuse or obesity. Recent public statistics show that more than 80,000 people are getting regular social benefits relating to these issues and David Cameron thinks their circumstances should be examined with a view to getting them back into work.

Discussing situations that he says “trap people in long-term poverty”, the PM declared that the government was, in his opinion, showing “courage” to go back and re-assess all incapacity benefit claims on record, a social category that had been allegedly neglected and “left for dead” by the Labour administration.

Alcohol awareness organisations, while welcoming the declared aim to re-habilitate addicts and get them back on the work front, have warned that indiscriminately removing benefits would badly affect vulnerable people and leave them worse off.

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