28 November 1983
Invalidity Benefit regulations introduced requiring a doctor’s certificate.
What: New regulations allow for a claimant to receive invalidity benefit and ‘abstain from work’ if certified by a doctor ‘for precautionary or convalescent reasons’ caused by ‘disease or disablement’.
Why significant: Shows GPs’ key role in the invalidity benefit process.
Citations
The Social Security (Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity Benefit) Regulations 1983