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Early Budget to get people off welfare and into work - Failed big time in Merthyr Tydfil where 1 in 5 are on long term sick.
Archive 2008-07-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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When you read things like that you can understand why whole sink estates all vote Labour as they know that the benefits will keep on rolling in, it also explains why some towns like the vermin infested MerthyrTydfil have one in five of the population on long term sick.
Archive 2008-06-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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They are usually children and the new pensioners, and those genuinely long term sick.
Our new First Minister Glyn Davies 2007
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The Louisiana teenager, who first reported the congressman, is still in the shadows this morning, but his family is speaking out about the young man and the e-mails he described as sick.
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Mine manged to argue my case that id been trying for five years to sort out, all to do with changes of circumstances and income, basically an assessment of almost £1000 a month not being altered when off long term sick.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Labour too has proposed such a policy, but only for the permanently disabled and long-term sick.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Mine manged to argue my case that id been trying for five years to sort out, all to do with changes of circumstances and income, basically an assessment of almost £1000 a month not being altered when off long term sick.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Mine manged to argue my case that id been trying for five years to sort out, all to do with changes of circumstances and income, basically an assessment of almost £1000 a month not being altered when off long term sick.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Rochdale council claimed that the authority did not keep separate figures for the number of staff who were long-term sick.
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Rochdale council claimed that the authority did not keep separate figures for the number of staff who were long-term sick.
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