sentences:  As well as this, an article in the Telegraph argued that the number of former Incapacity Benefit claimants found fit for work when assessed for ESA showed that Incapacity Benefit had been used to hide unemployment levels
  
  In 2008, the then health secretary, Alan Johnson complained about a "sick-note culture" that allowed people to drift onto Incapacity Benefit.In some cases, the claimant's recorded main disabling conditions were conditions that were not necessarily disabling, such as acne or a chronic cough.A medical certificate from a GP is the first step onto sickness benefits; although a government-run eligibility test was brought in alongside Incapacity Benefit in 1995, said that officials still accepted too many claims using information supplied by the claimants themselves and their GPs without asking for an All Work Test to be performed, partly because the pool of medical assessors was relatively small and partly because doctors' time was costly - which was why large numbers of nurses were brought in to perform the new test introduced in 2008.