How does receipt of benefit payments affect disabled people and people with long-term health conditions? What impact does it have on independence, financial security, employment, wellbeing?
Background
This encompasses priorities around:
- supporting groups that are under-represented in the labour market, including disabled people, who were disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
- initiatives to support people from these groups to start, stay, and succeed in work
transforming support for disabled people and people with health conditions to promote independent living and improve the customer experience
- influencing positive employer behaviours and promote good Occupational Health practice to help people maintain attachment to the labour market
Next steps
Send correspondence and further questions to evidence.strategyteam@dwp.gov.uk.
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Related UKRI funded projects
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An ADRC-NI project linking Social Security Benefits and Census data to understand the health and social needs of disability benefits claimants
Northern Ireland (NI) is one of the most disadvantaged parts of the UK, with high levels of disability and joblessness, but it is the most dependent on state benefits. In 2014 one-in-ten of the working-age population was...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to generate health and social-related information on disability claimants and non-claimants to understand the impact of benefit payments on independence, financial security, employment, and wellbeing.
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The causal effect of tighter disability benefit eligibility on health outcomes amongst older English people
In 2013, the UK began a major reform to disability benefits affecting more than 1 in 20 people in the country. This reform replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) with Personal Independence Payments (PIP). Like DLA, P...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of York
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically examines the impact of disability benefit reform on health outcomes and mental health, providing quantitative evidence to inform policy decisions.
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Disability and care needs in the older population: disability benefits, social care and well-being
The project aims to deliver new evidence to sharpen policy judgements on promising directions of reform of publicly-funded support for older people with care needs. In the UK, such support consists of two main elements. ...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to deliver new evidence on the impacts of disability benefits and social care on the wellbeing of older people with care needs, which is partially relevant to understanding the impact of benefit payments on disabled people and people with long-term health conditions.