Two million \"wrongly get benefit\":
Fewer than a third of the 2.7 million or so people claiming incapacity benefit are legitimate claimants, a government welfare adviser has said.
David Freud, an investment banker hired by Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell, said up to 185,000 claimants work illegally while on the benefit.
He told the Daily Telegraph it was \"ludicrous\" that medical checks were carried out by a claimant's own GP.
The system was \"a recipe for getting people on to IB\", he said.
Mr Freud, whose report on welfare last year was highly influential on the reforms set out by Mr Purnell on Monday, has recommended that private firms be paid \"bounties\" to get claimants off incapacity benefit and into jobs.
Full Story At BBC-News24:
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