Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Panorama - Britain on the sick


The government claims that work is good for your health and it's aiming to get a million people off benefit and into work by 2015.But what will it take to get the long-term incapacity benefit claimants off the sofa and into a job? Panorama investigates why 2.6 million people are 'on the sick' and how the government plans to shift a third of them into jobs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7402474.stm

Transcript - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7402474.stm