Retrenching Incapacity Benefit: Employment Support Allowance and Paid Work

Piggott, Linda; Grover, Chris

doi:10.1017/s1474746408004697

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“…In particular, welfare-to-work rhetoric has increasingly focused upon addressing people claiming IB as a primary concern or 'problem', embedded within an implication that somehow many of those receiving IB are able to be somewhere else, whether that place is another form of benefit such as Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), or into the labour market. Indeed, the receipt of IB has become framed by popular concerns that many sick and disabled people are either fraudulently claiming IB or abusing its careless administration (Garthwaite 2011;Piggott and Grover 2009). Whilst many responses to the changing welfare landscape have been presented, what is less often discussed is the reality of long-term sickness benefits receipt.…”

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‘The unwilling and the unwell’? Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of working with long term sickness benefits recipients

Garthwaite

Bambra

Warren

2013

Disability & Society

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractThis paper draws on qualitative research with Incapacity Benefit (IB) stakeholders in the North East of England, UK. Stakeholders' experiences of working with long-term sickness benefits recipients reveal multiple barriers that both sick and disabled people, and themselves as practitioners, clearly face. Reflections on what ongoing welfare reform could mean for future practice for both stakeholders and recipients will be explored. The findings suggests that whilst stakeholders recognise the complex barriers faced by those receiving sickness benefits, a wider moral dialogue between 'deserving' and 'undeserving' is being created and sustained as a result of negative stereotyping of sickness benefits recipients.

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‘The unwilling and the unwell’? Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of working with long term sickness benefits recipients

Garthwaite

Bambra

Warren

2013

Disability & Society

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“…Those analyses that emphasise the nature of challenges that nation states face as an explanation for developments in policy are essentially liberal in character and define the state and its agencies as essentially benign and working towards (albeit undefined or hazily defined) concepts of the social 'good'. However, as has been pointed out in the case of Australia (for example, Galvin 2004;Humpage 2007;Soladatic and Pini 2012) and the UK (Roulstone 2000;Piggott and Grover 2009;Grover and Piggott 2010;Patrick 2011aPatrick , 2011b what is often described in positive termsÁas, for example, 'enabling' and 'inclusionary' for disabled people in our caseÁis often wrapped in authoritarian discourses, and has detrimental impacts upon the material well-being of disabled people and is felt as exclusionary (see, for example, Campbell et al 2011 (Spartacus Report);Briant, Watson, and Philo 2011;Soldatic and Meekosha forthcoming;Morris 2006). In other words, there is little that is benign about such developments.…”

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“…Callinicos 2001), that benefit policy for both able-bodied and disabled people should be informed by a 'work first' approach that, initially at least, aimed to divert money saved from benefit payments to disabled people to welfare interventions, notably education and health, that are organised on a more universalistic basis in the UK and that are more politically more popular (c.f. Kemp 2000;Piggott and Grover 2009). Resistance from disabled people and MPs made the government's initial position untenable (Kemp 2000), but nevertheless, a stricter test of disabled people's capacity to labour (the Personal Capability Assessment) and compulsory 'work first' interviews were introduced in the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (see McKeever 2000).…”

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Neoliberal restructuring, disabled people and social (in)security in Australia and Britain

Grover

Soldatić

2013

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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This paper examines recent social security policies in Australia and the UK for workless disabled people. The paper outlines developments in both countries over the past two decades and points to the fact that while there may be differences in the detail, the trends in such policies in the two countries are similar. This involves moves towards stricter eligibility criteria, greater expectation of workless disabled people to make efforts to (re)enter paid employment and, through such processes, a redrawing of the 'disability category' that denotes the 'truly' disabled from those who are deemed capable of doing at least some paid work. The paper goes on to consider explanations of such change, arguing that liberal explanations in the social administration tradition are problematic and that they, therefore, need to be placed within the neoliberal project, in particular its concern with putting people to work. The paper concludes that this has essentially involved a redrawing of the disability category to ensure a smaller number of people of working age in both countries can legitimately claim an existence outside of paid work. The paper also argues that more comparative research is required to understand the impacts of such trends on disabled people and provide insights for those resisting the influence of neoliberalism on welfare regimes.

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“…It is likely that this group is seen to be part of the burden on welfare expenditure that needs to be reduced, i.e. via the 2008 move from Incapacity Benefit and Income Support allowances to the Employment Support Allowance (Piggott and Grover, 2009). The initial picture suggests, however, that health is more problematic for older individuals.…”

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Older and younger workers: the equalling effects of health

Beck

Quinn²

2012

Education + Training

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Older and younger workers, the equalling effects of health Abstract Purpose:The paper considers the statistical evidence on the effects that ill health has on labour market participation and opportunities for younger and older workers in the East Midlands. Design/methodology/approach:A statistical analysis of LFS data was undertaken to demonstrate that health issues affect older and younger workers alike. This has an equalling effect on labour market opportunities, which should reduce any potential for intergenerational conflict within the workforce. Findings:Although health problems that limit activities and affect the amount and kind of work an individual can undertake increase with age, there are high levels of ill health of these kinds within all age groups, including the youngest workers. Research limitations/implications:The regional statistical analysis can only provide indications, and further research is required to differentiate which groups of younger and older workers suffer from which types of illnesses as this has direct implications for their employment. Practical implications:A more direct consideration of health in employment, education and training policy is required to enable the development of healthy and long-term working lives that benefit individuals and the economy. Social implications:The consideration of the effects of health issues on the labour market should lead to a reconsideration of the rhetoric, and the reality of intergenerational conflict. There might be less reason for such competition than is generally perceived. Originality/value:The paper considers intergenerational conflict in a labour market context and suggests that health issues have an equalising effect for the relative positions of older and younger workers.

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Retrenching Incapacity Benefit: Employment Support Allowance and Paid Work

Cited by 30 publications

References 20 publications

‘The unwilling and the unwell’? Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of working with long term sickness benefits recipients

‘The unwilling and the unwell’? Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of working with long term sickness benefits recipients

Neoliberal restructuring, disabled people and social (in)security in Australia and Britain

Older and younger workers: the equalling effects of health

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