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Nearly a million people who applied for sickness benefit have been found fit for work, according to figures from the Department for Work and Pensions.
The DWP claims 980,400 people - 32% of new applicants for Employment and Support Allowance - were judged capable of work between 2008 and March 2013.
More than a million others withdrew their claims after interviews, it adds.
But disability campaigners said the work tests were "ridiculously harsh and extremely unfair".
A spokesman for Disability Rights UK said many of those passed fit will not, in fact, be capable of entering the workplace in any meaningful sense due to physical or mental health problems.
"They are finding people fit for work when they aren't and they are not even giving them the support they need to get a job. It is a disgrace," he told BBC News.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25886638
The DWP claims 980,400 people - 32% of new applicants for Employment and Support Allowance - were judged capable of work between 2008 and March 2013.
More than a million others withdrew their claims after interviews, it adds.
But disability campaigners said the work tests were "ridiculously harsh and extremely unfair".
A spokesman for Disability Rights UK said many of those passed fit will not, in fact, be capable of entering the workplace in any meaningful sense due to physical or mental health problems.
"They are finding people fit for work when they aren't and they are not even giving them the support they need to get a job. It is a disgrace," he told BBC News.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25886638
