Benefit claimants to be cut, according to new figures

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New figures suggest there will be dramatic reductions in the number of people in Wales able to claim the replacement to Incapacity Benefit, which is in the process of being phased out.

Wales has one of the highest proportions of people claiming sickness benefit in the UK, at more than 180,000.

All of those people are undergoing tests, and early estimates suggest that as many as four in 10 could be judged capable to work.

BBC Wales Today's Jamie Owen spoke to business correspondent Nick Servini.