Disability benefit change needed, says Iain Duncan Smith

Planned changes to disability benefits will go ahead, the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has said, insisting that reform is needed.

It has emerged half a million people are to lose the Disability Living Allowance over the next four years.

But Mr Duncan Smith told the Daily Telegraph the number of people claiming it had risen by 30% in recent years, with many people "allowed to fester".

Labour said he was approaching reform with "contempt and carelessness".

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