House of Commons - The role of incapacity benefit reassessment in helping claimants into employment

Work and Pensions Committee - Sixth Report
The role of incapacity benefit reassessment in helping claimants into employment

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 13 July 2011.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

Reassessment of incapacity benefit claimants

Outcomes of the reassessment

The inquiry

Our report

2 The Government's policy objectives for the IB reassessment

Government aims

Claimant perceptions

Improving communication of the Government's objectives

3 The Work Capability Assessment—claimants' experience and Atos Healthcare

Design of the process

Claimants' experiences of the process

The DWP contract with Atos Healthcare

4 The Work Capability Assessment—Reviews

The reviews of the WCA process

The future of the WCA

5 Decision-Making and Appeals

Decision-making

Reconsideration of decisions

Appeals

Recalling claimants for WCA after appeals

6 Reassessment outcomes

Outcomes

The impact of the decision to time-limit contribution-based ESA

Claims withdrawn before completing the assessment process

Tracking of claimants

7 Employment support for ESA claimants

Support under the Work Programme

Back-to-work support for customers moving onto ESA

Back-to-work support for customers found fit for work

8 Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and written evidence