Bennett targets invalids benefit

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Social Development and Employment Minister Paula Bennett wants to reduce the number of people claiming an invalids benefit.

However, the Government would not force anyone back to work, she said.

About 85,000 people were on the invalids benefit.

"This Government will support those that cannot work.

"I just want to be clear that this is not a blanket 85,000 people having to walk through the doors of Work and Income in the first month or something," Ms Bennett told Radio New Zealand.

The Government would "work more strategically" with the beneficiaries who were capable of working, she said.

- NZPA