Scheme gets incapacity claimants off the streets and back into work

A pilot project in Glasgow aims to get residents off incapacity benefit by searching the streets for people who could be at work and encouraging them to look for jobs.

The scheme forms part of the government's attempts to cut the total number of benefits claimants by up to one million over the next decade, as proposed by work and pensions minister John Hutton in the welfare Green Paper last month.