DWP's Access to Work Scheme: Limited Reach Despite Potential Financial Aid
The UK's Access to Work scheme offers money to help disabled people work, but few seem to know about it or use it. Find out why.
#AccessToWork, #DisabilitySupport, #UKJobs, #DWP, #WorkplaceHelp
https://newsletter.tf/access-work-scheme-disabled-workers-uk/
The government's Access to Work scheme can give money to help disabled people keep their jobs. However, reports show that not many people are using this help. Experts think more people need to know about it.
#AccessToWork, #DisabilitySupport, #UKJobs, #DWP, #WorkplaceHelp
https://newsletter.tf/access-work-scheme-disabled-workers-uk/
Useful context from @NatalyaD:
"If blind and you need £5k of special equipment to enable you to work. Tough, wait... Oh looky, employer doesn't (reasonably) want to wait MONTHS and if they fork out the £5k the government won't pay it back. ...
"A blind friend only kept their new job because they had old (not optimal) blind tech they could use during the wait."
@[email protected] As a disabled person who has struggled with EPIC disablism in job recruitment this stuff just makes me very angry and sad. I've taken 4 employment discrim cases and there is very little legal protection, it's all reactive and very limited. Employers are trusted to be honest when they say "business reasons" to cover blatant discrim and lies. Cutting motability, Access to Work, PIP and more will not help sick and disabled people who want to work to work. It'll make it WORSE.
Entrepreneur Fears Business Will Collapse Due to Cuts in Disability Support
Josh Wintersgill, an entrepreneur who has been running a successful business for six years selling products designed to assist wheelchair users with travel, is facing a bleak future. His business relies on support from the UK government’s Access to Work scheme, which helps disabled employees and bus... [More info]
Access to Work: cuts to support putting employment out of reach – Channel 4 News
So disabled benefits that help disabled people to work (PIP) is getting cut to force disabled into work AND support in work to enable them to work is being cut. Make it make sense.
channel4.com/news/access-to-wo…
Access to Work: cuts to support putting employment out of reach – Channel 4 News
So disabled benefits that help disabled people to work (PIP) is getting cut to force disabled into work AND support in work to enable them to work is being cut. Make it make sense.
https://www.channel4.com/news/access-to-work-cuts-to-support-putting-employment-out-of-reach
‘The Extermination of Disabled People at Work’ (my words) or phase two, which is supposed to come in to force from September/October 2025 and includes the removal of all job aide enabling and replacement support – both technological and human – meaning Access Workers will no longer exist!
Let me repeat that. There will be no more vital, friendly and inclusive Access Workers.’
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