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"Building Bridges to Work – helping the long term unemployed back to work" DWP - CHANGES to WCA/ESA/JSA
"Work for your Benefit" - pilot programmes to start in 5 areas from October 2010
''Most people on sick benefits could work''
APPDG Special DWP Review of Employment Support for Disabled People, DCS Briefing & DWP Presentation on ESA, Pathways etc..
A guide to completeing the ESA50 for Support Workers
Abolition of applicable amounts for children in income support and income-based jobseeker's allowance - rightsnet.org.uk
All overpayments of employment and support allowance, jobseeker's allowance and universal credit to be recoverable
Allowing claimants to sign on at their local Post Office - rightsnet.org.uk
Amendment of linking rules in employment and support allowance - rightsnet.org.uk
Amendments to social security legislation Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regs 2011 (SI.No. 2425/2011)
An Independent Review of the Work Capability Assessment for Northern Ireland
Atos doctors could be struck off - Observer/Guardian.
(3 comments)
Atos Healthcare Evidence Based Protocols for the Disability Analyst - a freedom of information request
(1 comment)
ATOS Origin - Customer Charter & What a Claimant can expect? How to complain?
Atos Origin awarded £300 million three year contract extension by DWP - rightsnet.org.uk
Attending a Medical Examination & Recording it - Judgement
BBC Inside Out London covers the new "fit note" and the issues for GP's
(2 comments)
Benefits assessment firm causing 'fear and loathing' among claimants, says MP - Work & Pensions Com. critical ATOS report due
(6 comments)
Benefits should be simplified - various news agencies
Billions in benefits go unclaimed - BBC
(3 comments)
CAB evidence on the ESA work capability assessment
(3 comments)
Call for independent assessment of medical assessment interviews by Atos
Cancer patients at risk of losing benefits, charity says - BBC
CE 917 2010 ESA - WCA activity 3:Bending or Kneeling - bending or kneeling descriptors 3 (b) and (c ) require use of ......
CE/191/2010 — Difference of opinion between examining doctor and claimant's GP / adequacy of reasons for tribunal's decision
CE/343/2011 — Risk to health in being found capable of work / application of Charlton - rightsnet.org.uk
CE/406/2010 - Lack of Motivation, Claimants abilty to cope with social situations. Descriptors 15,16,19,20 & 21 - Upper Tribunal
Changes to contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance
(2 comments)
Changes to Contributions criteria for Jobseekers and Employment and Support Allowances - Statutory Instrument 2010 No. 2377c.116
(1 comment)
Changes to JSA, ESA, DLA & AA to allow for electronic processing & storage of information for claimants.
Changes to sickness benefit will be "challenging" and "difficult" for some people in Wales, the employment minister has warned.
Charities recommend major changes to WCA for claimants with fluctuating conditions
Chief executive of Mind resigns from Harrington Scrutiny Panel - "Why the WCA isn't working" - mind.org.uk
CIB/1219/2010 — Risk to health from being found capable of work / effect of jobseeking on claimant who was unlikely to find work
Commission requests UK to end discrimination of EU nationals residing in UK regarding their rights to specific social benefits
Consultation: The Income Support and Employment and Support Allowance
CONTINUING ENTITLEMENT TO IS: PERSONS INCAPABLE OF WORK DMG 30/09
CPAG - ESA (Transitional Provisions)(Existing Awards) regulations (2010) - SSAC consultation response.
(1 comment)
Cuts strand disabled people without employment support
DEAC - Disability Employment Advisory Committee (DWP)
Decision making and appeals in the benefits system - Work & Pensions publish 2nd report session 2009-10 9th Feb 2010
(3 comments)
DMG 03/12 ESA: Activity 7 (understanding communication) - revised guidance
DMG 22/12 Memo - ESA: Admission to Hospital - TREATED AS HAVING LCW: HOSPITAL IN–PATIENT
DWP Consultation - The Work Capability Assessment - A Call for Evidence closes 10th September 2010
(24 comments)
DWP health and work - HCP Guidance - ESA113 Interactive (GP Medical report), Fitness for work, Health & Work Handbook
(1 comment)
DWP issue guidance to Decision Makers - "April 2011 Miscellaneous Amendments" to welfare legislation
DWP issue guidance to Decision Makers on 'limited capability for work' & 'limited capability for work related activity'
DWP issue guidance to Decision Makers on Jobseekers Allowance & work experience
DWP may allow recording of ESA Medical Assessments (Climb down?) - copy of email from benefitsandwork
DWP Memo DMG 16/10 ESA AND INCAPACITY FOR WORK APPEAL
(3 comments)
DWP Memo DMG 25/11 - ESA : Payment of WRAC - guidance following Upper Tribunal case CE/52/2011
DWP RR605 Joint Pilots baseline research '"Hard to help" individuals may never be employable'
DWP sets out details of Jobcentre Plus Offer
Early Day Motions oppose ESA and DLA cuts
Early Estimates for Working Age Inactive Benefit Client Groups
Easy ESA guide from Disability Alliance
Easy ESA Guide from the Disability Alliance
Employment & Support Allowance (ESA) and HIV/AIDS, DLA, training etc .. - Answers to Freedom of Information Request.
(2 comments)
Employment & Support Allowance - DWP Website.
Employment & Support Allowance - time limit on payment of contributory ESA 1 year for those in the Work Related Activity Group
(151 comments)
Employment & Support Allowance : HIV Infection - Questions to the minister incl. Training of ATOS/DWP DM's, Numbers
Employment and Support Allowance: Findings from a follow-up survey with customers - Research Report 745 DWP
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
(5 comments)
Employment and support allowance - the medical tests
(1 comment)
Employment and Support Allowance Case Law Summaries - Disability Alliance
(2 comments)
Employment and Support Allowance data for November 2009
Employment and support allowance overview - Disability Alliance
(2 comments)
Employment and Support Allowance Statutory Instruments.
Employment and Support Allowance: findings from a face-to-face survey of customers - Report 707 DWP
Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment Statitics
(4 comments)
Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment Statitics
EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE: WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT: Official Statistics April 2010
Employment Support Allowance (ESA) Medical Examinations - FOI request
(4 comments)
ESA & IB appeals double in last year according to Tribunals Service stats. Of those appeals, 42% decided in favour of claimant
ESA & Work Capability Assessment (WCA) how many since introduction of ESA.
ESA - Definition of work related activity.
ESA - Employment and support allowance 2011
ESA - Work Capability Assessment (WCA) - PERSONALISED SUMMARY STATEMENT - DWP Memo DMG 17/11
(2 comments)
ESA accounts for more than half of all benefit appeals awaiting Tribunal - to 14th June 2010
ESA Appeals Guide available from benefitsandwork.co.uk
ESA Appeals in England - a freedom of information request to the Tribunal Service
ESA AWARDED FOLLOWING ESA APPEAL - Memo DMG 07/10 internal DWP
(2 comments)
ESA No of Appeals and breakdown of successful and unsuccessful
(1 comment)
ESA Rates
ESA – WORK-RELATED ACTIVITY - Requirement to undertake WRA - DWP Memo DMG 15/11
Even HARSHER new ESA medical approved - Benefits & Work - 13th April 2010
(17 comments)
Exemption from jobseeking requirements for victims of domestic violence - rightsnet.org.uk
Fair Welfare campaign by CAB
Government advisers deliver fierce attack on work test
Government sends ‘threatening’ Access to Work letters
GPC seeks talks with DWP over Atos ‘fitness to work’ scheme concerns
Grayling: Latest figures show the vast majority of people being found fit for work - DWP
(2 comments)
Harrington WCA review - Year 2 recommendations - timeline - Point 19 Fluctuating Conditions - June 2011
HIV, Employment & Support Allowance (ESA) & Employment - the issues?
(2 comments)
How to record your Work Capability Assessment (WCA) - Response from DWP on what you need to do.
(13 comments)
IB, ESA & Mental Health how many assessed as 'limited' since 1997.
IFW, IB, SDA AND ESA: SS (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) (NO 3) REGULATIONS 2010 - Memo DMG 33/10
Increase in permitted earnings, ESA & IB from £93 to £95 from October 2010
INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF THE WCA – INTERIM REPORT - Professor Harrington - "I am pleased and gratified to see the progress"
Information on ESA medicals on people with fluctuating conditions - a freedom of information request to the DWP
IS, JSA, ESA - Self Employed Earners - Periods without work DWP Memo DMG 40/10
JSA AND EMPLOYMENT, SKILLS & ENTERPRISE SCHEME - Details on Conditionality & Sanctions - DWP Memo DMG 16/11
JSA AND MANDATORY WORK ACTIVITY SCHEME - DWP guidence Memo DMG 11/11
Jobcentre to write to claimaints from 19th September about change to contribution based ESA
Jobcentres 'tricking' people out of benefits to cut costs, says whistleblower
(3 comments)
Jobseeker's Allowance (Mandatory Work Activity Scheme) Regulations 2011 - Lords debate
Judged fit to work? You could lose your benefits if you appeal - New Statesman
(1 comment)
Latest DWP Statistics on ESA claims to August 2009 and WCA to February 2010
(2 comments)
Leaked DWP letter - IB migration to ESA will be a nightmare & our fears realised this may also AFFECT DLA
(4 comments)
Lone Parent Obligations: work, childcare and the JSA regime
(2 comments)
Lone parents to be offered better pay incentives to work
Lords question - what are the qualifications of staff undertaking the WCA for mental health conditions?
Making the Work Capabiity Assessment (WCA) work better for cancer patients - consultation closes 9th March 2012
Mandatory work activity and employment, skills and enterprise scheme - rightsnet.org.uk
Medical evidence: Use of evidence from claim to one benefit (DLA Mobility) in claim to different benefit (ESA PCA Incapacity)
Memo DMG 26/11 REQUEST FOR STRIKE-OUT WHERE THE DECISION MAKER CONSIDERS THERE IS NO REASONABLE PROSPECT OF SUCCESS
Memo DMG 33/11 APPLYING TO THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL FOR ACCEPTANCE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPEAL BY TELEPHONE
Mental Health and the Employment & Support Allowance - DWP
(3 comments)
Mental, intellectual and cognitive champions are due to be launched by Atos Healthcare during the first quarter of 2011
Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee - Twenty-Third Report Drawing special attention to: Draft Code of Recommended Practice
Migration to Employment and Support Allowance
(3 comments)
Ministers admit to sickness benefits backlog
(1 comment)
Most sickness benefits claimants are fit for work, new figures reveal
(1 comment)
MP's Guide to Disability, Lord Freud & Welfare Reform, Anne Begg MP all at the APPG Disability Financial Independence Event
(2 comments)
NAT (National AIDS Trust) are doing some research about the impact that HIV-related symptoms have on daily life, including work.
NAT - part of Professor Harrington working group - publish survey findings "Fluctuating symptoms of HIV"
NAT press release - Work Capability Assessment fails those living with HIV
(1 comment)
National rollout of issuing Decision Maker’s Reasoning where "No Limited Capability for Work following WCA" from 23 Jan 2012
New benefit system dogged by 'endless appeals' - Channel 4 news
New Deal becomes "Flexible New Deal" from 5th October 2009
New disability test 'is a complete mess', says expert
New esa work capability regulations published
New ESA50 03/11 form
(1 comment)
New legislative changes to activity/descriptors for WCA of ECA effictive from 28th March 2011 SI. 2011 No. 228
(3 comments)
New Statutory Instrument 2009 no. 1490
New test raises bar for sickness benefits - Financial Times
New ‘fit note’ unveiled - government gets rid of ‘sick note’ culture - DWP Consultation
(1 comment)
No turning back on fit-to-work test - guardian.co.uk - Prof Harrington "shocked by level of tribunal appeals"
No. of IB Claimants to be migrated to ESA over next three years - written answer
Number of work-focused interviews for IB and ESA claimants over next 2 years ?
Please let the HIV/AIDS sector know your experience of migration from Incapacity Benefit to Employment Support Allowance
(5 comments)
Professor Harrington Year 2 WCA review Government response
(4 comments)
PUBLIC CONSULTATION: The Jobseeker's Allowance (Mandatory Work Activity) Regulations 2011 - DWP/SSEC Closes 20th Dec 2010
Publication of DWP research report 634 Job Search Study: literature review and analysis of the Labour Force Survey
Publication of DWP research report 719: Employment and Support Allowance: customer and staff experiences of the face-to-face Wor
Request for Regulations of Backdated Jobseeker's Allowance Guidelines
(3 comments)
Revised ESA work capability assessment test
Right first time? - An indicative study of the accuracy of ESA work capability assessment reports - CAB
(1 comment)
RR 766 Qualitative Research into enhanced Jobseeker’s Allowance provision for the 50+ - DWP Research Report
Scots benefit claimants to test stringent work pilot - Work Capability Assessment (WCA) & ESA
(1 comment)
Scrap Work Capability Assessments, say GPs (issued by BMA Scotland Thursday 22 Mar 2012)
Sharing of Social Security information DWP, Training Providers,Careers Advisory Services & Employers - SI 2010 No. 508.
Simon Gillespie, chief executive of the MS Society Appointed to WCA independent review scruitiny group
Some changes to means tested & ESA benefits - Statutory Instrument 2009 No. 2655
Substantial risk to health if claimant found capable of work
Supreme Court Ruling - DWP cannot take legal action to recover benefit overpayments where the error was made by them
(1 comment)
The Employment and Support Allowance (Work-Related Activity) Regulations 2011 Statutory Instrument 2011 no. 1349 - 1st June 2011
The influence of outcome-based contracting on Provider-led Pathways to Work - DWP Report no. 638 - "Parking of some claimants"
The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions for Failure to Attend) Regulations 2010 SI.no. 509 - effective 6th April 2010
The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work Experience) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 SI No. 2011 279- Work Experience & sanctions
The role of incapacity benefit reassessment in helping claimants into employment: Government Response W&P Select Committee
(3 comments)
The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2010 SI. 2010 No 840 including medicals
The Welfare Reform Act 2007 (Commencement No. 12) SI 2010 no. 1905(C. 100) facilitates move to ESA from IB
(1 comment)
Time limit of 42 days for the DWP and HMRC to respond to appeals should be introduced without delay
Training & Development Revised WCA Handbook ESA (LCW/LCWRA) Amendment Regulations 2011
Training and diagnostic experience required by Atos Medical Doctors carrying out Work Capability Assessments.
(1 comment)
Travel to employment - New SSI 2012 No. 1135 Jobseekers Allowance regulations 2012
Trial incapacity benefits reassessment: customer and staff views and experiences - Research report 741 DWP
Unsuccessful Employment and Support Allowance Claims - DWP Research Report 762
WCA changes should take effect immediately or reassessment of incapacity benefits claimants should be postponed - CESI
WCA Improving Customer Experience, Role of Benefit Integrity Centre's & reviewing 1million claims a year - DWP Touchbase ezine
Welfare for the 21st Century & State of the nation report: poverty, worklessness and welfare dependency in the UK - DWP 270510
(9 comments)
Welfare Reform Milestones
Well fair reform?: Tackling disability poverty in a changing welfare state - conference report - Disability Alliance
(2 comments)
Why is it SO important to submit complete and thorough medical reports from your Doctors for ESA.
Work & Pensions Select Committee announce inquiry into the migration from Incapacity Benefits to ESA - closes 14th April 2011
Work Capability Assessment (WCA) : Illnesses - Question from Caroline Lucas MP to DWP - Progressive / terminal illness and ESA50
Work Capability Assessment (WCA) Internal Review published "WCA is accurately identifying individuals’ capability for work"
Work Capability Assessment (WCA) – Year 2, Harrington Review, call for evidence - closes 16th September 2011
(7 comments)
Work focused health related assessment suspended for two years
(3 comments)
Work for people who are sick or disabled
(1 comment)
Your guide to employment and support allowance - easy read version - Disability Alliance
128 per cent increase in ESA appeals for first quarter of 2010/2011
13 October 2009 – New figures show thousands stopped from getting trapped on sickness benefit (ESA/IB) - DWP Press Release
(2 comments)
19 January 2010 – Welfare reform – fewer people left behind in this recession - DWP Press Release
2010 UKUT 50 AAC, CE 2373 2009, ESA, mental, cognitive & intellectual function assessment WCA Descriptor 18&19 Tribunal Case Law
2011 UKT 159 ACC CE/2444/2010 - Tribunal's power to alter statement of reasons
2011 UKUT 224 AAC CE 2541 2010 Tribunal Practice - Hearing a DLA and ESA appeal at the same time.
2011 UKUT 449 AAC CE 1217 2011 - Whether tribunal right to assess claimant as though he normally used a crutch
2011 UKUT 492 AAC CE 1826 2011 ESA WCA activity 5: Whether claimants ability to be assessed by reference to each hand used alone
2011 UKUT 61 AAC CE 1992 2010 ESA & WCA - Claimant ability perform activities repeatedly- absence of 'Sometimes" descriptors
2011 UKUT 75 AAC CE1839 2010 - ESA WCA Activity 1: Walking - claimant's inability to walk without severe discomfort was relevant
24 April 2012 –Latest ESA assessment figures show majority fit to work
459% rise in sanctions against JSA claimaints in Scotland over 2 year period - Citizens Advice Bureau report
56% per cent increase in ESA/incapacity benefits appeals for second quarter of 2010/2011
57% of people who have been through Work Capability Assessment (WCA) found fit for work between March & May 2011
(5 comments)
62 per cent of completed work capability assessments find claimant ‘fit for work’ - rightsnet.org.uk
63% "fit for work", 27% fit for work with support, 10% in Support Group - latest DWP ESA WCA figures
80 per cent of claimants to make changes and claims for jobseeker’s allowance online by 2013
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