The Mentally Ill And The Benefits Fraud

EDM number 138 in 1996-97, proposed by Lawrence Cunliffe on 05/11/1996.

That this House deplores and deprecates the targeting of thousands of recipients of social security benefit with mental health problems by the Benefits Fraud Office without even checking or researching the reasons why they were awarded benefit and whether those reasons are still valid; and calls upon the Secretary of State for Social Security to instruct his Department to cease such callous treatment towards these unfortunate people, thus ensuring the stress and anxiety imposed upon them of wondering whether they will be classed as frauds will be alleviated.

This motion has been signed by a total of 43 MPs.