Originally posted on Benefit tales:
If you become sick or disabled and lose your job you need to know that you will be supported.
However, our advisers are helping more and more people who are having problems with the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). We think this needs fixing and want to make sure that ESA is fit for work.
(Article and data from the Citizen’s Advice Bureau, 3rd Feb 2014)ESA is the benefit designed to help people who have limited ability to work. We have found that the ESA process too often fails to determine who is fit for work and who isn’t. This means that the right people are not getting the support they are entitled to.
As our chart shows, despite attempts by successive Governments to put this right we are still seeing evidence that the system is not fit for work.We want…
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