Access to Work Programme

(asked on 21st March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of access to work users who will be affected by the new cap of £57,000 per year.


Answered by
Sarah Newton Portrait
Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 27th March 2018

The Written Ministerial Statement of 20 March on Access to Work announced that the award limit, currently £42,100 per year, will rise from 1st April 2018 to £57,200 per annum. The Equality Analysis published in May 2015 identified an estimate of 200 customers with awards exceeding the level of the cap and it is estimated that many of these transitionally protected customers will benefit from the increase. In addition, some existing customers with awards at or just below the current cap may benefit when they renew their claim if their needs have increased. An Equality Analysis of the changes will be published as a formal addendum to the Equality Analysis published in May 2015.

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