Daily Archives: 10/05/2012

Tens of thousands lose their ESA as welfare reforms begin to bite

Tens of thousands of disabled people have lost all of their out-of-work disability benefits this week, thanks to new rules brought in by the government through its controversial Welfare Reform Act.
The act introduced a new one-year time limit on claiming the contributory form of employment and support allowance (ESA) for those disabled people expected to [...]