The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced in the Pathways to Work Green Paper that it would be “abolishing the Work Capability Assessment (WCA)” and that following this, eligibility to the ...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has delivered a shock to hundreds of thousands of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants, declaring that they will need to attend face-to-face ...

Tens of thousands of benefit claimants are being assessed by the DWP every month after being signed off work. The Department for Work and Pensions is carrying out work capability assessments on an ...

The UK Government has unveiled plans to change how new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants are handled in an effort to alleviate the backlog of Work Capability Assessments (WCA). The ...

Labour has vowed to make “better use” of existing resources as the party pledged to end repeat work capability assessments for those who are disabled or ill. Shadow work and pensions secretary ...

The disturbing realities of the work capability assessment are at odds with government rhetoric about helping people back to work, argues Mathew Little – who has been through the process. “Politics as ...