Moving from Incapacity Benefits to Employment and Support Allowance

Incapacity Benefit (IB), Income Support (claimed because of a disability) and Severe Disability Allowance are being replaced with a new benefit called Employments and Support Allowance (ESA). Everyone claiming these old benefits will be reassessed over the next 3 years. This is about 1.5 million people. From May 2011, the Government aims to be reassessing around 11,000 people per week. The only people excluded from this process will be people who are due to reach state pension age by March 2014.

Factsheets

Moving from incapacity benefits to Employment and Support Allowance

in PDF format (pdf, 45kb)
This factsheet explains the transfer of everyone who receives incapacity benefits (Incapacity Benefit, Income Support and Severe Disability Allowance) to Employment and Support Allowance and explains the Work Capability Assessment.
in accessible format (txt, 11kb)
in Word format (doc, 15764kb)

Work Capability Assessment descriptors

in PDF format (pdf, 64kb)
This document lists the criteria used to assess a claimant’s capability for work and work-related activity. These criteria should be read alongside Sense’s factsheet ‘Moving from incapacity benefits to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) via the Work Capability Assessment (WCA)’.
in accessible format (txt, 16kb)
in Word format (doc, 586kb)

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