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Speaker 1: This story about sick or disabled teenagers getting the doll

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Speaker 1: just doesn't make any sense to me. Government wants to

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Speaker 1: cut the doll for teenagers whose parents earn sixty five

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Speaker 1: thousand plus a year. Okay, their justification. If poor old

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Speaker 1: mum and dad have to cover their living cost, then

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Speaker 1: the teenagers might go out and actually find a job motivation. Okay, fine,

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Speaker 1: that's about four eighteen to nineteen year olds they reckon.

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Speaker 2: But here's what gets complicated.

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Speaker 1: It turns out that around half that number are getting

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Speaker 1: the doll not because they can't find work, but because

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Speaker 1: they can't work like physically. Have a look at the

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Speaker 1: whim's website. It lays out the criteria for you. You

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Speaker 1: basically have to prove the reason with a doctor's certificate. Basically,

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Speaker 1: you can't work full time because you have a disability,

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Speaker 1: an injury, or a health condition which prevents it. They

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Speaker 1: mention things like chronic stuff like hemophiliacs asthma sufferers.

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Speaker 2: Here's the rub.

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Speaker 1: If little Johnny can't work and we accept that because

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Speaker 1: a doctor has said so, and the point of cutting

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Speaker 1: Johnny's benefit is to encourage him to work, then we

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Speaker 1: have an obvious problem. You can't encourage somebody to work

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Speaker 1: who can't work, can you? This makes no sense. Either

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Speaker 1: the government is not believing the health conditions are real

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Speaker 1: or not that serious, or they're saying that parents on

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Speaker 1: sixty five thousand dollars a year should be financially responsible

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Speaker 1: for their kids until they're twenty, even if those kids

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Speaker 1: can't work for good reason, which I think is a

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Speaker 1: bit unfair. Johnny's parents didn't choose I'm sure to have

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Speaker 1: a disabled child or a kid injured in a car

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Speaker 1: crash at home in the prime of their lives.

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Speaker 2: Ministers, I think need to either.

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Speaker 1: Explain this announcement better or pull a swift U.

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