It is hard to class them as being in anyway genuinely needy and not just greedy.

Mr. Madigan told the Senate Agriculture Committee on Oct. 30 that the Soviet Union should restrict access to low-price state stores to the genuinely needy.

"Most people in Middletown are sympathetic to the problems of the homeless and the genuinely needy," Mr. Garafolo said.

If you bothered to look into it further you would know that plenty of genuinely needy people have been certified fit to work and that no medical fact or observation is involved in ATOS' tickbox assessment.

The genuinely needy are being helped by the welfare rights team, which plans eight new staff.

By cutting welfare dependency, taxpayers' hard-earned money will be focused on the genuinely needy, particularly the old, sick and disabled.

Of course the old, genuinely sick and genuinely needy need support.

Unwilling to turn away the genuinely needy, Mr. Bakely keeps a list of government and charitable organizations and makes referrals whenever he is approached.

Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified, or even defined, let alone assisted, the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere.

The structural resources will be concentrated on the genuinely needy regions, especially by giving clear priority to Objective 1 regions and by continuing the Cohesion Fund.