Only 5% of ESA claimants return to work

It also revealed that those people who had assistance with appeals were more likely to have their decisions overturned. The results suggested that the government's high profile work programme my face a tough time in getting people back into work. And disability campaigners warned that the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) report ESA: findings from a follow-up survey of customers indicated future cuts to the benefit would hit claimants hard. The DWP follow-up survey contacted 1,842 people between July and September who made an ESA claim between April and June 2009 and had init...