Dear Lazyweb - Lib Dem benefits policy

[wildeabandon]

Can anyone point me at a the Lib Dem policy on benefits, particularly incapacity benefit? The Tory plans to make the testing more stringent have nixed any plans I might have had to vote for them at the next election, and Labour seem to be going the same way (as well as there being the whole civil liberties problem). This makes the Lib Dems the most likely choice, but after searching through their website I've found a bunch of soundbites, and a paper about helping young people find work, but nothing else more solid, and I'd like to have a bit more of a basis for my decisions.

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[i-am-toast.livejournal.com]

Specifics of how benefit allowance are accorded is a narrow issue when you take into balance how the parties plan to fund National Services as a whole. For example, I would consider NHS propositions to be more important than benefit allocation policy, because it is a) a much more widely used resource, b) has a more important role to play if you value life across the board (I am not being flippant here; there are good arguments to be had about the balance between life maintanence and quality) but most importantly for this discussion, c) at a higher tier it can affect exactly the kind of situations that result in benefit allowance being necessary.

On balance, benefit allowance is a narrow issue to base your vote upon, purely because you need to have a good view of the knock-on effects of other policies.