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For work ,it appears that under the new guidelines the actual number might go up by as many as 400,000. Rachel will have to get her calculater out again as well as dealing with Trumps tariffs.
Sure she will come up with an answer as she worked in a bank.

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From the Mail headline:

Labour's welfare overhaul aimed at getting more long-term sick back into work will see an EXTRA 400,000 signed off unfit.

Then in the article:

An extra 400,000 people could end up being signed off as unfit to work under controversial welfare overhaul.

There are claims the numbers are estimates / estimated.

later:

- the main reason for the rise was because the overhaul reverses planned changes to the work capability assessment proposed by the Tories

and...

While the Government initially committed to pressing ahead with the plan, ministers reversed it – at a cost of £1.6 billion a year – after the High Court found the changes would be unlawful because the previous (Tory) government failed to admit that they were motivated by cost-cutting.

The story is not quite as presented.

I am in absolute agreement that something has to be done about the welfare system but I have yet to see a working example of what that might be.