Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Incapacity Benefit (IB) was a United Kingdom welfare benefit introduced in 1995 by the Conservative government led by John Major. The benefit was paid to people below the State Pension age who had made National Insurance contributions and who were having difficulty finding work because of an illness or a disability.The number of Incapacity Benefit recipients rose sharply from 1995 to 2004. This led to questions about the stringency of the process used to test eligibility, worries about people being \"trapped\" on benefits, and concerns over the cost to the Exchequer.Incapacity Benefit was phased out following the passage of the Welfare Reform Act in 2007, which replaced it with Employment and Support Allowance for new claims the following year.In 2011, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition began to reassess long-term recipients still on Incapacity Benefit, in the belief that many were able to work."@en }
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- Incapacity_Benefit abstract "Incapacity Benefit (IB) was a United Kingdom welfare benefit introduced in 1995 by the Conservative government led by John Major. The benefit was paid to people below the State Pension age who had made National Insurance contributions and who were having difficulty finding work because of an illness or a disability.The number of Incapacity Benefit recipients rose sharply from 1995 to 2004. This led to questions about the stringency of the process used to test eligibility, worries about people being \"trapped\" on benefits, and concerns over the cost to the Exchequer.Incapacity Benefit was phased out following the passage of the Welfare Reform Act in 2007, which replaced it with Employment and Support Allowance for new claims the following year.In 2011, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition began to reassess long-term recipients still on Incapacity Benefit, in the belief that many were able to work.".