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The long-term sick could be forced to find jobs or have their benefits slashed in sweeping welfare reforms designed to get more people back into work, according to reports. Work and pensions ...
Ms Kendall has said she wants to tackle “spiralling inactivity” in the labour market, with 2.7 million people out of work due to long-term sickness between October and December last year.
The policy objectives for the new test were: to accentuate the positive by "looking at what you can do, not what you can't do"; to take into account new disability legislation, changes in the workplace and developments in occupational health; to make the test more stringent; to assess most new claims in person rather than on paper; and, once ...
The two main disability benefits are the Sickness Benefit, and the Invalid's Benefit. A doctor's referral and medical certificate (or equivalent) is needed to claim the benefits. The Invalid's Benefit is for someone who has a severe disability, and/or long term sickness, which is paid slightly more than the Sickness Benefit.
After 52 weeks, claimants would be paid the long term rate, [8] however, claimants who had a terminal illness or got the highest rate care component of Disability Living Allowance were able to be paid the long term rate after 28 weeks of claiming Incapacity Benefit. [7] The short term rate was split into two other categories: lower rate and ...
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No money is paid for the first week. After that, the basic allowance is paid to the claimant until their Work Capability Assessment (WCA) at - in theory - week 13, after which a successful claimant might receive an enhanced level of payment (depending on the level of disability and whether they enter the work-related activity group or the support group after their assessment).