However, the chief minister said he would "absolutely refute" the allegation claimants were being "messed around".
Why penalise claimants who have no alternative but to live in accommodation with a spare bedroom?
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The hearing was adjourned until Tuesday, when the claimants are expected to begin giving evidence.
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He encouraged potential claimants to "test" the program and see how they will be treated.
The good news for claimants is that existing payments will continue during the renewals process.
Under the government's "size criteria", claimants will be assessed for the number of bedrooms they need.
But Mr Lyall concedes that more cuts are likely, meaning reductions for genuine claimants.
In other countries, claimants have to show injury before they can qualify for compensation.
Those exempt from charges in England include children under 16, income-related benefit claimants and pregnant women.
But then, with different claimants, ownership cases now often end up in the courts.
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They view wealth as a static quantity, a fixed pie to be divided among claimants.
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These principles now lie behind a long-overdue effort in Britain to reduce the number of claimants.
The goal of cutting the number of IB claimants by 1m by 2015 remains the same.
However, some claimants have high expectations of what they might earn should they return to work.
He found that nearly two-thirds of incapacity benefit claimants had no skills or qualifications at all.
It also suggested nearly 90% of claimants know little or nothing about housing benefit cuts.
And the Swedes have let most stay, granting 90% of claimants formal refugee status in 2006.
So now the benefit is being capped, which will drive claimants out of more expensive areas.
The prospect of attending was enough to persuade some claimants to get a job.
Claimants made neither verbal nor written complaints to management concerning trading in these accounts.
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Getting rid of such false claimants may also be counted among the New Deal's successes.
Claimants withdrew their claims against Respondent LPL because that firm had been named in error.
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Not surprisingly some claimants are tempted to take the law into their own hands.
The Karmapas' seat-in-exile, at Rumtek near Gangtok, has seen fisticuffs between supporters of the rival claimants.
Claimants can receive between one and six months' compensation without waiving their right to sue, Feinberg said.
Last week a group of 21 claimants launched a multimillion-pound lawsuit, also over its 2008 cash call.
There are 70 lawyers and 1, 500 claimants who are represented in 55 associations, and dozens of witnesses.
The number of youth claimants, those aged under 25 years of age, fell by 771 during October.
This affected new claimants, with existing claimants' entitlements changing later in the year or in subsequent years.
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