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People on Department for Work and Pensions benefits who are anxious or depressed face a big change. Therapists will tell anxious and depressed benefits claimants that work is good for their mental health in a fresh attempt to end sick note culture.

The Telegraph reports GPs are being told to prescribe having a job as a form of treatment. Labour Party Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the change reflected a shift in attitude to treating employment as being “just as vital” to health as diet and exercise.

One Labour MP insisted: “Cuts to welfare are quite simply not acceptable given the wholly unjust way inequality is structured in Britain, with so many people living in poverty.”

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