Incapacity Benefit (IB) will be abolished this year with all claimants facing reassessment as part of the Government's continued crackdown on the benefits system.
Plans to force the long-term unemployed to accept a guaranteed job or work placement if they are unable to find a position of their own have also been revealed. Announced in its Building Bridges to Work command paper, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) says these measures will help deliver over £1.5bn in budget savings from welfare reform over the next four years. From October all IB claimants will be reassessed with a new Work Capability Assessment which looks at what they can do and what help they need, rather than on whether they could do their previous job. It expects th...
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