SEVERELY chronic, sick and disabled were supposed to be exempt under statute from New Labour's Benefits Integrity Project (BIP), but were visited by foot-in-door squads of harassers sent by DSS benefits agencies with proposed benefits stoppages.

Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden sent me replies to his questioning of Social Security Secretary Alistair Darling in which Mr Darling claimed 'safeguards' for those supposed to be exempt.

However, Mr Darling admitted in written answers that the DSS has no statistics and no register of severely chronic, sick and disabled entitled to the exemption being wrongly included in the ongoing and revised BIP.

R McDougall,

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