disincentives to work

FREE GUIDE to help people with disabilities & health problems through the benefits maze and into work

Finding a job at the moment is hard enough and if you’re disabled or have a mental health problem it’s even more difficult. Making the leap from relying on benefits to getting a full time job is often simply unrealistic. But part-time work can help to build up skills, confidence and a work record to show to future employers. It also raises the self esteem that comes with earning a wage.

Addressing disincentives to work associated with the welfare benefits system in the UK and abroad

Author: 
Patience Seebohm and Judy Scott from the Sainsbury Centre For Mental Health. Commissioned and published by The Social Enterprise Partnership.
2004
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Researchers have found that large numbers of people who could and should be working are refusing to take the risk of coming off benefits. This report aims to help solve the problem by suggesting ways of creating the conditions for people on benefits to feel safer about working. It highlights some of the most damaging and contradictory features of the system and suggests ways forward. (91 pages).