July 9, 2013
People on sickness benefits will be required to attend regular meetings with health-care professionals to address barriers to work, as a condition of receiving their benefit, under a two-year pilot announced yesterday (8 July). Read More
July 27, 2011
The TUC has criticised the Government's recently launched Work Programme, saying it is a money-making exercise that hinders rather than helps disabled people. Read More
May 9, 2011
Mental illness has overtaken musculoskeletal disorders as the most common reason for claiming Incapacity Benefit (IB), the results of an 11-year study have found. Read More
April 5, 2011
As the national rollout of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) programme begins this week, a disability charity has urged the Government to hit the brakes until the test is working fairly and effectively. Read More
October 29, 2010
Following concerns expressed earlier this month about the speed and validity of the Government's reassessments of those on incapacity benefit the DWP has announced that the "vast majority" of people are being found fit for work. Read More
October 11, 2010
Long-term incapacity-benefit claimants in Burnley and Aberdeen will be the first across the UK to be reassessed on their ability to work, as a major tranche of the Government's welfare-reform programme gets under way today (11 October). Read More