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Routes onto Incapacity Benefit
— findings from a survey of recent claimants: research summary | | Author(s) | Peter A Kemp, Jacqueline Davidson |
| Corporate Author | Department for Work and Pensions - DWP; Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford; Social Policy Research Unit - SPRU, University of York |
| Publisher | Department for Work and Pensions, London, 2007 |
| Pages | 4 pp (Department for Work and Pensions research summary) |
| Source | Paul Noakes, Central Social Research Services, 4th Floor, The Adelphi, 1-11 Robert Adam Street, London WC2N 8HT. E-mail: Paul.Noakes@dwp.gsi.gov.uk Download report: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rrs-index.asp |
| Keywords | Disablement benefit ; Claims [services] ; Quantitative studies. |
| Annotation | The processes by which people come to claim incapacity related benefits are not well understood. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) commissioned the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford and the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of York to carry out this quantitative study, to provide detailed information on the characteristics and circumstances of new claimants of Incapacity Benefit (IB). The study also sought to provide statistical information about routes onto IB that had previously been identified in a linked qualitative study conducted for the DWP. Face-to-face, structured interviews were conducted with a representative sample of 1843 recent IB claimants. 'Recent claimants' were defined as people who had made a new claim for IB in the previous 3 months; interviews were carried out around 6 months after people had made their claim for IB. This summary outlines findings regarding claimant characteristics (and employment, health and disability), the role of employers, claiming IB, and work expectations and barriers once on IB. The full report (Research report 469) is published by Corporate Document Services, and available from the same sources as this summary. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080407002 E |
| Classmark | JHK: QLT: 3DQ * |
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