The scheme which gives extra benefits to people who are ill in Jersey for a long period of time is to be reviewed. It comes after some cancer patients were classified as being 50% fit and told they would only be entitled to get half their benefits.
The president of the Health Committee, Senator Stuart Syvret says it is a shameful situation.
Senator Paul Routier, the politician in charge of benefits, said the scheme would be reviewed.
Senator Syvret said: "Things have got to a very sad state indeed in a community as wealthy as Jersey has to regards people suffering from cancer as being 50% fit to work.
"This really isn't a satisfactory state of affairs."
Senator Routier said the scheme and its impact on cancer patients would be reviewed.
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