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1. What is a Universal Credit (UC) work-focused interview?
(UC FAQ)
If you are placed in the LCW group after the work capability assessment, you will be required to attend periodic work-focused interviews with your work coach to continue receiving your full benefit. At ...
2. Work-focused interview
(ESA glossary)
What is a work-focused interview? A work-focused interview is supposed to help move you into paid employment by looking at what you can already do and what further support you might need to help you ...
3. Who goes into the Limited Capability for Work (LCW) Group and how?
(UC FAQ)
Limited capability for work (LCW) group Claimants who are placed in the limited capability for work (LCW) group are those who the DWP consider are not currently capable of work, but who may be capable ...
4. What are Universal Credit work-related requirements?
(UC FAQ)
There are four different work-related requirements that could be applied to you if you claim UC. If you are assessed as having Limited Capability for Work and Work-Related Activity (LCWRA), then you ...
5. Work-related activity group
(ESA glossary)
What is the employment and support allowance work-related activity group? The ESA work-related activity group is for claimants who the DWP consider are incapable of work at the moment but who will be ...
6. Court claim after ‘fitness for work harassment’ during blood transfusion (members only)
(News)
A disabled woman who claims she lost the use of her last kidney because of harassment from her local jobcentre during an emergency blood transfusion is taking legal action against the Department for Work ...
7. Fury as Tory welfare police order kidney dialysis patient back to work.
(News)
... cuts, Paul Mickleburgh, 53, has been deemed fit to work. The dad of three, who was diagnosed with renal failure when he was 19, was forced to give up his job as a technician 20 years ago after his ...
8. Smarten up and try out working, ESA claimants can be ordered
(News)
27 February 2011 ESA claimants in the work-related activity group can be ordered to improve their appearance and undertake work experience or face having their benefits cut. Provisions in last week’s ...
9. Employment and Support Allowance guide for support workers
(News)
30 January 2008 Benefits and Work has published the first Introduction to Employment and Support Allowance, currently available only to organisational members. Much of the detail of ESA has yet to appear ...
10. Citizens Advice pulls out of compulsory interviews partnership
(News)
13 March 2007 Citizens Advice, the national umbrella body for Citizens Advice Bureaux, has pulled out of a controversial partnership deal with the Shaw Trust to help administer the DWP's Pathways to Work ...
11. Discriminatory Christians only group to carry out compulsory claimant interviews
(News)
16 October 2006 An evangelical group which openly refuses to employ non-Christians looks set to carry out compulsory work-focused interviews on disabled claimants. Pecan, which has won through to the ...
12. Discriminatory Christians only group to carry out compulsory claimant interviews
(News)
16 October 2006 An evangelical group which openly refuses to employ non-Christians looks set to carry out compulsory work-focused interviews on disabled claimants. Pecan, which has won through to the ...
13. Compulsory work, training and medical treatment for ill and disabled claimants moves closer
(News)
12 October 2004 There are strong indications that compulsory work, training and medical intervention for incapacity benefits claimants is coming sooner rather than later. This follows the resignation ...
14. Compulsory work for incapacity benefit claimants by 2006?
(News)
10 November 2003 A new incapacity for work pilot scheme brings much closer the government's goal of forcing sick and disabled claimants to work or train in order to get benefits. The pilot began in October ...
15. Take up thy bed and work: minister aims to cut incapacity benefit claims by three quarters
(News)
24 November 2002 The new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Andrew Smith, considers that three quarters of all new incapacity benefit (IB) claimants have 'manageable conditions' and should return ...
16. DWP illegally breaching claimant confidentiality in seven out of ten jobcentres
(News)
The DWP may be illegally breaching sick and disabled claimants’ confidentiality by failing to provide a private room for work-focused interviews in seventy percent of its Jobcentre Plus offices. The ...
17. WCA consultation, points to consider
(News)
The DWP consultation on making the work capability assessment for universal credit and ESA much harsher ends on 30 October. Benefits and Work has so far avoided giving any guidance on how to respond ...
18. Feedback
(About)
... and work colleagues and will continue to do so in the future. We’re very grateful. Please keep up the great work.” PIP Tribunal won “So after the DWP scored me 2 points for daily living the tribunal ...
19. What is the Universal Credit claimant commitment?
(UC FAQ)
To qualify for UC, you will have to meet certain work-related conditions and requirements. These are recorded in a claimant commitment, and you must continue to meet these requirements to avoid sanctions ...
20. Sanctions: employment and support allowance (ESA)
(ESA glossary)
What is an ESA sanction? A sanction is when your employment and support allowance (ESA) is reduced because you didn’t abide by the rules about work-related activity or work-focused interviews. There ...
21. Assessment phase of employment and support allowance (ESA)
(ESA glossary)
... whether you are capable of work or whether you should be placed in either the work-related activity group or the support group in the main phase of ESA. In some circumstances, you may also remain in the ...
22. Support group
(ESA glossary)
Placed in the Support Group for 3 years without a medical "the support and advice being offered by yourselves at Benefits & Work has proved to be an absolute LIFELINE..." Support Group without medical ...
23. What is ESA?
(ESA glossary)
ESA stands for Employment and Support Allowance.  It is a benefit paid to people who are unable to work because of ill-health or disability.  ESA was introduced in 2008, when it replaced a previous benefit ...
24. UC sanctions rocket 15-fold in four months
(News)
Universal Credit (UC) sanctions rates have rocketed following the resumption of face-to-face meetings, rising 15-fold in just four months. 98% of all sanctions are in connection with work-focused interviews. ...
25. Labour’s new shadow suggests Motability is a model for the future (members only)
(News)
... for ensuring that investment projects benefit disabled people. Asked if she wanted to see less of a role for the big Work Programme and Work Choice providers like Seetec, A4E and Ingeus in helping disabled ...
26. Benefits pilot is steering a ‘dangerous’ course (members only)
(News)
...  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said that people on out-of-work disability benefits would be “required” to have regular meetings with doctors, occupational health nurses and therapists to ...
27. 13 November Newsletter
(News)
... advice workers and for support workers who  need a good awareness of the possible effects on their clients of the transfer from disability living allowance (DLA) to PIP. More details here.   Dear ...
28. New ESA sanctions looming
(News)
From 3 December 2012 new sanctions for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants in the Work-Related Activity Group (WRAG) who either fail to take part in work-focused interviews or fail to undertake ...
29. 4 September Newsletter
(News)
... down after getting the news yesterday.” nyorks1961 on being placed in the ESA Support Group after a medical assessment If you’re not already a Benefits and Work member why not use the cut price ...
30. Huge new sanctions threat for ESA claimants
(News)
... for a potentially indefinite period. At present, claimants in the work-related activity group of ESA can lose their work-related activity component of £​28.15 a week if they fail to follow orders ...
31. 13 October newsletter
(News)
Hopeless, petrified and then . . .  DLA appeal true story;  plus more forced onto work scheme We thought, for once, instead of just  a good news post, you might like to have the full story. What ...
32. Attending WFIs if appealing to be in the support group
(News)
Last month a discussion took place in the Benefits and Work forum about whether claimants in the work-related activity group (WRAG) who were appealing to be placed in the support group could be obliged ...
33. Support Group Appeals: Your Experiences
(News)
In our last newsletter we asked for your accounts of appealing a decision to place you in the employment and support allowance (ESA) work-related activity group (WRAG) when you considered you should be ...
34. 15 September newsletter
(News)
... if I hadn't subscribed to this site! Once again THANK YOU, the work you are doing is FANTASTIC!” In fact, over the summer we’ve had quite a few forum posts and emails from people who have made the ...
35. This will change my life
(News)
... site it is so valuable. Amy Injured on duty “I wish to thank everyone at Benefits and Work. I used to get DLA for 3 years but when it came up for renewal I lost everything. I am genuinely injured ...
36. Second medicals for ESA to be abolished
(News)
... results’. The ‘second medicals’ or work-focused health-related assessments (WFHRAs) are designed to find out what work ESA claimants placed in the work-related activity group may still be capable ...
37. Major new ESA resource to download
(News)
14 May 2010 Benefits and Work has published a major new employment and support allowance (ESA) resource to add to the detailed step-by-step guides already available on the site. The 100+ page ...
38. Is the tide finally turning against ESA?
(News)
... cancer – including some who are terminally ill - to attend medicals and work-focused interviews, even though many of them should be exempt from the entire process. The report blames a combination ...
39. Are claimants at risk from ESA assessment rip-off?
(News)
... late. ESA claimants are supposed to undergo a work-focused health-related assessment (WFHRA) just minutes after they have had their medical test to decide whether they qualify for ESA.   This ...
40. Claimants who try lose benefits
(News)
30 October 2009 A private sector provider alleges that claimants risk losing their employment and support allowance (ESA) as a result of diligently taking part in the Pathways to Work programme.  They ...
41. Your chances of getting ESA – the secret’s out
(News)
... the DWP claimed would be eligible when ESA was introduced. 11% were awarded ESA with a work-related activity component, i.e. placed in the work-related activity group and obliged to attend work-focused ...
42. How to claim ESA on physical health grounds
(News)
24 April 2009 Benefits and Work has now published the only step-by-step guide to limited capability for work on physical health grounds available anywhere on or offline. The 65 page members only publication ...
43. Almost no-one getting into higher paying ESA support group
(News)
... 10% of claimants would be placed in the support group. Support group members are paid at a higher rate than work capability group members and do not have to attend compulsory work-focused interviews.  ...
44. Do not claim ESA without it
(News)
3 March 2009 Our uniquely comprehensive guide to limited capability for work on mental heath and learning difficulties grounds is now available online. We strongly advise you to download a copy before ...
45. Government breaks its own disabled access laws
(News)
... it works with are breaching the Disability Discrimination Act. We revealed the struggles of one of our disabled members called to attend a series of Work-Focused Interviews in a building with serious ...
46. Confidential ESA assessment guide published
(News)
27 October 2008 Benefits and Work has exclusively obtained and published a copy of the previously unseen 68 page Work-Focused Health-Related Assessment (WFHRA) Handbook to be used by Atos Healthcare professionals. ...
47. New Employment and Support Allowance guide
(News)
27 October 2008 Benefits and Work has published a 43 page members guide to Understanding Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) to coincide with the introduction of the new benefit today. It is the first ...
48. Another new ESA training day
(News)
... knowledge is required and the training is suitable both for advice workers and for support workers who do not give benefits advice but do need a good awareness of the possible effects of ESA on their clients. ...
49. New ESA training day
(News)
... 2008. No previous benefits knowledge is required and the training is suitable both for advice workers and for support workers who do not give benefits advice but do need a good awareness of the possible ...
50. Incapacity claimants
(News)
... new much harsher Work Capability Assessment (WCA) is introduced, the government already has plans to make it even harder to pass. According to the green paper, the DWP intends to review the WCA once ...