employment support allowance

More than half of SME employers fear the cost impact of the government's health and welfare reforms, according to Jelf Group.

Disability charities are horrified at government plans to cut employment and support allowance (ESA) during appeals.

The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) has produced a ‘myth buster' factsheet issuing a stark warning for potential future claimants about the realities of the impending welfare reforms.

Just one quarter of people in employment prior to successfully claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) had returned to work 18 months later, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has found.

Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants are the most dissatisfied with their service from the Job Centre, according to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

More than 11,000 benefit sanctions were imposed on Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants between June last year and the end of May.

LV= paid 93% of its income protection (IP) and critical illness (CI) claims in the year to the end of June.

Fifty charities have hit out at the government for using ‘dangerously misleading' benefit claims statistics that are contributing to hatred towards disabled people.

Benefit claimants face reduced payments if they fail to perform certain work-related activities, according to new regulations which come into force today.

MPs have condemned some of the coalition's most controversial plans for welfare reform and called for them to be scrapped in two early day motions (EDMs).