It's not 7,000, but 700,000 seriously ill people who'll lose their sickness benefit

I was delighted to see Ed Miliband raise so passionately the issue of 7,000 cancer patients who will lose all employment and support allowance after one year (Miliband puts Cameron under pressure over coalition plan to cut cancer patients' benefits, 16 June). As you report, "Complex changes to eligibility for employment support allowance [previously incapacity benefit] for some groups could result in as many as 7,000 cancer patients losing up to £94 a week in sickness benefit."

This is an issue that many sickness and disability campaigners such as myself have been urgently trying to raise awareness of for months. As the article pointed out, however, David Cameron "did not seem to be aware of the detailed measure in the bill, even though it has been raised for months in parliament and the media".

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