Now he finds himself facing the daunting task of pushing through changes to incapacity benefit.
Not everyone being assessed on Incapacity Benefit will have a face-to-face meeting with a healthcare professional.
It is not clear how many people have been helped off Incapacity Benefit and into work.
In 1998 the total on incapacity benefit was "1.7m and rising", Blair writes in his memoirs.
Incapacity Benefit reassessment is one of the biggest changes to the welfare system in a generation.
The incapacity benefit will be replaced by an employment-and-support allowance, which will take two forms.
Other disability benefits, with even laxer entry conditions than incapacity benefit, remain largely unchanged.
He found that nearly two-thirds of incapacity benefit claimants had no skills or qualifications at all.
But there are many others who receive benefits for incapacity, despite being capable of work.
Departmental sources admit that it is proving hard to move people off incapacity benefit.
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What we've got to do is change the attitude of employers rather than those on incapacity benefit.
People receiving unemployment or incapacity benefit can have their state pension credited as though they are working.
The girl's incapacity comes not just from the multiple mentions of her being dead in the video.
Ms Hepburn, a former teacher with MS, was reclassified "fit for work" after five years on incapacity benefit.
It also helps to ameliorate the social stigma and incapacity to function independently that illiterate people often face.
And incapacity benefit, which is meant to replace lost income, will be confined to those recently in work.
He estimated that 30% of those seeking to move from Incapacity Benefit to Employment Support Allowance would be rejected.
She said there is a reason that Northern Ireland has the highest number in the UK on Incapacity Benefit.
The ECJ says "the point at which the temporary incapacity arose is irrelevant".
Late in the 1980s an American junk-bond borrower could shout its incapacity to service its debts from the rooftops.
The department said that of the 941 claimants who have moved from Incapacity Benefit to JSA, 67 secured jobs.
Of the total who were reassessed, 12, 500 were found fit to work and they will lose their Incapacity Benefit.
The report also highlights the worryingly high level of people on incapacity benefits.
So in 1995 the Tories replaced Invalidity Benefit with Incapacity Benefit, which required claimants to satisfy an objective medical test.
Growing up with extreme mental incapacity and no speech is not the same as being part of a vibrant Chicano-American community.
Not even the rebellious peers were prepared to wreck the whole welfare bill for the sake of more generous Incapacity Benefit.
He activated the five-member incapacity committee provided for in the partnership agreement.
And having exhausted their political capital on reforms of Incapacity Benefit, the Tories were in no position to tackle other disability benefits.
Ms May said the proposals were not radical enough and said the Tories were committed to reassessing all existing incapacity benefits claimants.
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