The genuinely in need are the ones who tend to be kicked off benefit in my experience and the ones claiming sick,but working on the side get away with it. They know how to play the system and are very adept at it.
It is wrong that DWP staff or contracted companies with no medical qualifications make decisions regarding claimants health and it is therefore of little surprise that many claimants win appeals regarding their claims.

Grayling has it wrong though, Labour didn't cast people aside on to a benefit and leave them there, it was his own party who shifted a lot of long term unemployed onto invalidity benefit to massage the job figures. They created the monster that they now choose to destroy whilst they themselves milk their particular system for all it's worth. From the telegraph re Grayling's expenses....
"Within weeks of first being elected in 2001, he bought a flat in a six-storey block for £127,000. In 2002, he set up an unusual arrangement with the Parliamentary Fees Office, claiming £625 a month for mortgages on two separate properties, both the main home and the new flat in Pimlico. This is usually against the rules, but Mr Grayling negotiated an agreement because he was unable to obtain a 100% mortgage on the London flat that he had bought.

This arrangement ended in May 2006.

Over the summer of 2005, Mr Grayling undertook a complete refurbishment of the flat. Shortly after the general election in May, Mr Grayling claimed £4,250 for redecorating and £1,561 for a new bathroom.

The next month, he claimed £1,341 for new kitchen units and in July, he claimed a further £1,527 for plumbing and £1,950 for work that included rewiring the flat throughout. It is thought to have risen substantially in value since then.

During the 2005-06 financial year, Mr Grayling claimed close to the maximum allowance for MPs.

However, in the following financial year he continued to submit receipts for the work that had been carried out the previous year.

This effectively allowed him to spread the costs over two years – whereas he would have been unable to claim all the costs in the 2005-06 financial year. For example, in June 2006, Mr Grayling submitted an invoice for £3,534 for service and maintenance on his block of flats, which included a service charge of £1,148 and a “balance brought forward” of £1,956.

This was paid by the House of Commons authorities in the 2006-07 financial year, although the invoice refers to “Tax point: 22 Feb 2006” and refers to costs carried out in the 2005-06 financial year.

A handwritten note on the invoice informed the fees office to “Please note this has only just been issued, date notwithstanding.”

In July 2006, Mr Grayling submitted a claim for £2,250. The invoice from the decorator was dated July 2006, and referred to “remedial and refurbishment works July 2005”.

On the claim form, Mr Grayling stated: “Decorator has been very ill & didn’t invoice me until now.”

If the various late receipts had been submitted in the 2005-06 financial year, they would have exceeded Mr Grayling’s second home allowance for the 12-month period by over £4,700.

However, they were still paid by the Fees Office.

Mr Grayling has a sizeable property portfolio. The Pimlico flat, which is only a short walk from the Commons is believed to have risen in value despite the recession. A studio flat in the same block is currently on sale for £235,000.

On the Parliamentary register of interests, Mr Grayling declares that he rents out two further houses that he owns in London.

The family home he shares with wife Sue and their two children in Ashtead is inside the M25 and in the heart of Surrey’s commuter belt. The imposing house with its sweeping drive and grounds cost £680,000 in 2000.

Mr Grayling defended his claims last night and said that using one of his existing properties would not have saved the taxpayer money. “I needed two loans to buy my London flat in 2001,” he said.

“One was the standard maximum loan available for a second property and the second was to pay for the 20 per cent deposit. In addition to serving my constituents, I have spent several years serving in the shadow cabinet, currently as the shadow home secretary.

“A second home enables me to meet those commitments. I have always been entirely open to my constituents about this.”

Commenting on why claims for renovating the London property were submitted a year late, he said: “These claims were made at the point which I received the invoices. I made this clear to the fees office at the time.”

This country has bred two types of animal in this country in the past few decades - a working social animal, and the non-working non-sociable animal, due to variuos resons in their makeup. The later sometimes finds modern working difficult, and makes them ill with all sort of nurosii. You only reap what you sow, Britain.

Maybe. Or maybe it is because english is my second language, after modern brythonic, and maybe due to slight dyslexia. Or maybe word invention?

But I will try harder, and use online dictionaries more, teach.

the express has it right - get these workshy scroungers off the sick!!

Never mind ten years, how many of us scroungers have been on benefits for nearly thirty years ? !
Left behind by Liebour ? If only ! To be left alone would be preferable !