The government intends to implement new workplace measures, as part of its Welfare Reform proposals, aimed at getting older people back into work and reducing the risk of stress-related illnesses.
According to the much-publicised Welfare Reform Green Paper unveiled yesterday by the Department for Work and Pensions, (DWP) this is just one of several changes designed to reduce the number of incapacity benefit claimants by one million people and shake up the way people are assessed as benefits to focus on their “capability for work rather than just their entitlement to benefits”. Details of the 112-page report - entitled A new deal for welfare – empowering people to work - reveal the government is seeking to get “an employment rate equivalent of 80% of the working-age population” unde...
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