Routes onto Incapacity Benefit: Findings from a survey of recent claimants

TY - BOOK

T1 - Routes onto Incapacity Benefit: Findings from a survey of recent claimants

AU - Kemp, P. A

AU - Davidson, J

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - The processes by which people come to claim Incapacity Benefit (IB) are not well understood. This report aims to address this knowledge gap by presenting findings from a survey of a representative sample of recent claimants of IB in Great Britain. The report provides detailed information on the characteristics and circumstances of new claimants of IB, and provides statistical information about the routes onto IB that were identified in a previous qualitative study (DWP Research Report No. 350).

AB - The processes by which people come to claim Incapacity Benefit (IB) are not well understood. This report aims to address this knowledge gap by presenting findings from a survey of a representative sample of recent claimants of IB in Great Britain. The report provides detailed information on the characteristics and circumstances of new claimants of IB, and provides statistical information about the routes onto IB that were identified in a previous qualitative study (DWP Research Report No. 350).

KW - employment/benefits

KW - ill/disabled adults

M3 - Commissioned report

SN - 978 1 84712 313 8

VL - vol. 469

T3 - Department for Work and Pensions Research Report

BT - Routes onto Incapacity Benefit: Findings from a survey of recent claimants

PB - Corporate Document Services

CY - Leeds

ER -