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Older workers and incapacity benefit reform
— report of an Inquiry by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Ageing and Older People | | Corporate Author | All Party Parliamentary Group on Ageing and Older People; Age Concern England - ACE |
| Publisher | Electronic format - Age Concern England, [2006] |
| Pages | 6 pp |
| Source | Download pdf from website: http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/4AF1BF26F5... |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Disablement benefit ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | The All Party Parliamentary Group on Ageing and Older People (APPG) based this report on meetings with the Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform Jim Murphy MP, and older workers, advisers and project leaders from two Age Concern projects, Workwise (in St Helens) and New Start 50+ (in Camden). This report considers the role of older workers, focusing on those returning to work following a period of time claiming incapacity benefit (IB). It comments on the discriminatory labour practices experienced by older workers, and suggests that the Government should promote the role of older workers within the labour market. It asks for further research on the multiple disadvantages experienced by older women, older carers and older people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities. The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) should move to a model based on regular access to learning throughout working lives: discriminatory age bars to skills training should be removed. In the light of the planned rise in state pension age (SPA), the Government needs to focus on employment support for older workers on whom the UK economy may come to rely. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081001201 E |
| Classmark | GC: JHK: TM2 * |
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