Welfare Reform Bill

From the customer’s point of view, they will have an assessment that will look at entitlement for ESA and at their limited capability for work-related activity; one assessment will look at those two strands. Then there will be a separate work-focused health-related assessment. It is the important new element introduced in the Bill and will look at the capabilities of a person and at the barriers that need to be overcome: the positive side, not the limited capabilities side.