London -- British Conservative Party leader David Cameron is proposing changes that would force 500,000 disability recipients to return to work, The Times of London said.
The switch would immediately save about $40 per week per recipient as it shifts a portion of those collecting disability benefits to job seeker status. Cameron said unemployment was "one of the most serious things we face as a country," The Times reported Monday.
"If we don't deal with it, it is not just bad for those people who are unemployed now, there is a danger that short-term unemployment becomes long-term unemployment and builds up massive problems for our families and for our country in the future," Cameron said.
