Routes onto incapacity benefits: findings from qualitative research

TY - GEN

T1 - Routes onto incapacity benefits: findings from qualitative research

AU - Sainsbury, R

AU - Davidson, J

PY - 2006

Y1 - 2006

N2 - This report presents findings from a qualitative research project to investigate the routes by which people become recipients of incapacity benefits. The study was aimed at increasing understanding of how people become Incapacity Benefit (IB) recipients so that further policy development can take place around more 'preventive' job retention and rehabilitation measures. The research was based on:- literature review,- in-depth face-to-face interviews with 60 new claimants of incapacity benefits,- follow up telephone interviews with 54 of the original sample six to seven months later.

AB - This report presents findings from a qualitative research project to investigate the routes by which people become recipients of incapacity benefits. The study was aimed at increasing understanding of how people become Incapacity Benefit (IB) recipients so that further policy development can take place around more 'preventive' job retention and rehabilitation measures. The research was based on:- literature review,- in-depth face-to-face interviews with 60 new claimants of incapacity benefits,- follow up telephone interviews with 54 of the original sample six to seven months later.

KW - ill/disabled adults

KW - employment/benefits

M3 - Other contribution

T3 - Department for Work and Pensions Research Summary

PB - Corporate Document Services

CY - Leeds

ER -