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Responding to the appointment of Iain Duncan Smith MP as the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Mike Hobday, Head of Campaigns, Policy and Public Affairs, said:
'We welcome the opportunity of working with the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to ensure that the benefits system supports people living with cancer. With insights gained in his Centre for Social Justice work, Iain Duncan Smith MP brings to his new post knowledge and understanding of the distressing impact poverty can have on people’s lives. We urge him to make sure that cancer survivors can focus on living with cancer rather than worrying about money. 'The current welfare to work system, in particular the process around Employment and Support Allowance, is currently failing people living with cancer. It provides insufficient support to help people return to work and is too great a burden for terminally ill cancer patients, forced to attend back to work interviews. 'We look forward to working with the new government as it replaces the current schemes with its new programme of back to work support.'
'The current welfare to work system, in particular the process around Employment and Support Allowance, is currently failing people living with cancer. It provides insufficient support to help people return to work and is too great a burden for terminally ill cancer patients, forced to attend back to work interviews.
'We look forward to working with the new government as it replaces the current schemes with its new programme of back to work support.'
Helen Champion, Macmillan Cancer Support Press Office
Tel: 020 7840 4689
Email: HChampion@macmillan.org.uk|