It's been a year since the launch of the new welfare reform system in the UK, which was designed to get more people off State support and back into the workplace. But has this change been for the better?
Well you could argue the rule changes mean that it's made it harder for people who need to claim incapacity support to actually claim the benefit. Let's look at the facts. From its launch in October 2008 and February 2009 193,8001 claims for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) were made. Of these claims only 11% were deemed eligible for ESA support. The reality is the Government's Welfare Reform changes have made it more complicated for people to claim this valuable ‘crutch' of support, it seems to me to be a case of survival of the un-fittest when it comes to getting government su...
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