CPAG Briefing: The future of the work capability assessment
Carri Swann considers the implications of the proposals in the DWP’s new Health and Disability White Paper to end the work capability assessment and replace current rules on limited capability for work and work related activity.
Welfare rights advisers spend a lot of time helping people through work capability assessments (WCAs). We complete UC50 and ESA50 forms, help people to gather supporting evidence and to prepare for assessment appointments, then help them to challenge decisions through mandatory reconsideration and appeal. For many of us, this is a large part of our working day.
The new Health and Disability White Paper from the DWP does not introduce new rules on the WCA. It proposes them – and proposes that they happen no earlier than 2026/27. But what it proposed is major.
https://askcpag.org.uk/content/208897/the_future_of_the_work_capability_assessment
