Your location: Seminar: Employment and Support Allowance
Course is available in: London
This seminar provides a comprehensive introduction to the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), which is being introduced in Autumn 2008 as a major part of the government's 'Welfare to Work' reforms.
This is an integrated contributory and means tested allowance and will replace Incapacity Benefit and Income Support paid on the grounds of incapacity and sickness.
ESA has a fundamentally different approach to incapacity and a new test of capability for work which radically changes the amount of benefit sick and disabled claimants can get and how they qualify for it.
Seminar contains
- The eligibility criteria
- The assessment phase
- How the allowance is worked out
- The new personal capability assessment
- The work-related conditions claimants must satisfy and who is exempt
- How existing incapacity-related benefits claimants will be affected
- Reviews and appeals
Who should attend?
This seminar is essential for anyone working with sick or disabled people in an advisory or support role.
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All of our courses can also be run in-house, at your office or a venue of your choice. For details please call Amanda on 0844 515 1161 or email inhousetraining@shelter.org.uk