Daily Archives: 17/11/2011

Government ‘acting like dodgy insurance firm’ over ESA time limit

A disabled peer has accused her own government of behaving like a dishonest insurance company over its treatment of hundreds of thousands of people currently claiming out-of-work disability benefits.
Baroness [Celia] Thomas, a Liberal Democrat, spoke out as she and other peers failed to persuade the coalition to rethink plans to impose a 12-month time limit [...]