So in 1995 the Tories replaced InvalidityBenefit with Incapacity Benefit, which required claimants to satisfy an objective medical test.
ECONOMIST: Welfare reform
2.
InvalidityBenefit, supposedly for invalids, had been paid to thousands of early retirees on the nod of friendly local doctors.
ECONOMIST: Welfare reform
3.
Incapacity benefit, paid to people too ill to work, was brought in to replace the widely abused invaliditybenefit, whose recipients turned out to have included shot-putters and mountaineers.