Incapacity Benefit To Be Replaced By Employment Support Allowance (ESA)

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  Jobless to work 'clearing litter'  - BBC News, 21 July 08

Incapacity Benefit claimants will all move to the new Employment Support Allowance by 2013, which ministers hope will be regarded, for all but the most disabled people, as a temporary benefit…

You can find out more about the new Employment Support Allowance here…

And the JobCenterPlus explains the Employment Support Allowance here…

What are your thoughts on the change? Leave a comment below and share your views…

 

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22nd July 2008

Barry Davies @ 10:12 am

It seems that as ever the government haven't considered that not everyone on incapacity benefit is a scrounger who could work. I am not unemployed, I am retired early because I can no longer work, as such I can't sign on, but do get IB. What safeguards are there for people such as myself.

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