They include early retirees, full-time students and those on disability benefit who are not included in official unemployment statistics.
Disability benefit tests can continue on the sixth floor of a Luton office despite concerns about accessibility, the government has ruled.
But much of the gap represents permanent departures from the labour force because of early retirement or workers going on disability benefit.
The only item that looms larger than disability benefit in the social-security budget is spending on the elderly, which accounts for 42% of the total.
There is also, among other benefits, a disability benefit that pays immediately upon injury, rather than waiting six months, plus other restrictions, as under Social Security.
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In the 1990s, the rise in unemployment was masked by many people taking early retirement and going on disability benefit - something which has not happened so far.
Yet despite a 40% increase in average real incomes since 1979, British taxpayers spend more than four times as much on disability benefit for more than twice as many disabled people as they did then.
Baroness Grey-Thompson, a crossbencher, expressed her fear that disability benefit reforms could result in some people being "considered not disabled enough to be supported but considered to be too disabled by society to play a full part in it".
Over the years, pols have garnered union votes by agreeing to expand early retirement plans from cops and firemen to teachers and pencil-pushers, offer lavish cost of living adjustments and allow public employees to game lax disability benefit rules.
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Thus, whatever would be gained via income tax would likely end up costing the government more through the provision of the other benefits that would come into play when the disability benefit, minus income taxes, becomes insufficient to support the individual.
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Dependants of welfare cheats will be protected and those on disability and sickness benefit are exempted.
It is plain to see that permanently stagnant labor markets are making Social Security disability the new unemployment benefit.
The changes will impact on thousands in NI and affect disability living allowance, housing benefit and employment support.
The changes will impact on thousands in Northern Ireland and affect disability living allowance, housing benefit and employment support.
The changes will impact on thousands of people in Northern Ireland, affecting those in receipt of payments such as disability living allowance, housing benefit and employment support.
In fact, because older adults with heart disease often are less able to exercise and have a higher disability rate, they may benefit the most from a cardiac rehabilitation program.
Doctors were told that in addition to buying regular disability insurance, their practices could pump--pretax--up to 100% of their excess earnings into a supplemental disability plan offered by the Doctors Benefit Insurance Co.
The new benefit will replace the existing disability living allowance in April.
The only benefit provided by the employer is temporary disability coverage, which is required by state law.
The new bill will include changes to payments such as housing benefit, Jobseeker's allowance and disability living allowance (DLA).
Other disability benefits, with even laxer entry conditions than incapacity benefit, remain largely unchanged.
Depending on the level of disability, educational programs should be made to be inclusive so that children benefit from interaction with their peers and class material.
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But this pension system is ripe for common-sense reforms, including changing eligibility ages and benefit structures for those with greater means, ridding the Social Security disability program of pervasive fraud, and removing disincentives for those who would rather work in their later years.
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Although some individual companies offer a paid maternity leave benefit, many parents end up using a combination of short-term disability, sick leave, vacation, personal days and unpaid family leave.
The false payments related to disability living allowance, carer's allowance, tax credits and housing and council tax benefit.
Mr Darling wants most recipients of disability benefits to attend an interview to examine work options, as a condition of receiving benefit.
The charity Disability Wales said the charges come at a time when disabled people could afford it least as they faced benefit cuts and welfare reform.
But although the Tories succeeded in introducing a slightly tougher system for incapacity benefit, paid to people deemed incapable of work, they were too cowed by the powerful disability lobby to set about root-and-branch reforms.
Mr. Thompson will be eligible to participate in the benefit programs generally available to senior executives of the Company, including health insurance, life and disability insurance, the Employee Stock Purchase Plan, 401(k) plan, and a Flexible Spending Plan.
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