£300m benefits paid without interviews

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This is supposed to be the government that's tough on disability benefit claimants. They were meant to be putting a stop to the outrage of people claiming disability benefits for minor ailments like indigestion or raking in a fortune in payments while continuing their salsa dancing classes on the side.

However, figures from the Department of Work and Pensions reveal just how slow progress has been in this area. Only a tiny minority of claimants are having interviews to check the impact of their disability, and a significant minority are being paid purely on the basis of claims they have made in the application form. So what's going on?