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Can it work?
- Author:
- STANLEY Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.7.03, 2003, p.38.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The authors argue that the government's Jobcentre Plus initiative is inadequate to meet the change of enabling disabled people to enter the jobs market. The author draws on her work for the Institute for Public Policy Research and looks at some of the additional efforts that need to be made.
Fit for purpose: the reform of incapacity benefit
- Authors:
- STANLEY Kate, MAXWELL Dominic
- Publisher:
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report maintains that incapacity benefit has become a barrier to work. Claimants must demonstrate that they are incapable of work and therefore risk losing their benefit if they look for a job. Yet at the same time they are required to attend work focussed interviews. The report also finds the benefit is failing to ensure a decent standard of living for people with a health problem or disability who cannot work, with the average payment totalling just over £4,200 a year. The report recommends a new active welfare reform strategy in which incapacity benefit is replaced by: a flat rate ‘Earnings Replacement Allowance’ - de-coupling disability from incapacity as well as removing the incentive to move off Jobseeker’s Allowance and the incentive to stay on incapacity benefit longer to qualify for extra cash; mandatory action agreements - negotiated between well-trained Personal Advisers and claimants; and an enhanced Disability Living Allowance – to ensure that the extra costs of living with a health problem or disability can be met.