Downing Street has confirmed it is in talks with Labour MPs about possible changes to the government's welfare policies.

Data from all the DWP work capability assessment decisions made between January 2022 and February 2025 shows mental and behavioural disorders (such as anxiety, depression, ADHD and alcohol ...

The reforms will eventually abolish the contentious Work Capability Assessment (WCA), which determines whether someone is too ill to work. For now, the WCA still decides who qualifies for ...

Around 300,000 extra will be claiming UC by 2029-30 than in 2026-27, albeit many at lower rates. The papers also indicate the timeline for replacing the Work Capability Assessment might be slipping.

Scrapping the Work Capability Assessment to end the process that drives people into dependency, delivering on the UK Government’s manifesto commitment to reform or replace it.

On the flip side, the government is also planning to abolish the work capability assessment (WCA). This wouldn’t take effect until near the end of the decade, but under these plans, “out of work” ...

LABOUR in power is sticking tenaciously to its claim that cutting £7 billion from disability benefits won’t increase the levels of poverty in this country. In fact, ministers claim that their killer ...

Should you be scheduled for a PIP assessment or Work Capability Assessment (WCA), it will be facilitated by a specific company: ...

The papers also indicate the timeline for replacing the Work Capability Assessment might be slipping. Ms Kendall said in March that the checks would be scrapped in 2028 as part of the reforms.

A separate assessment, which was released alongside the spring statement, estimates that 250,000 extra people - including 50,000 children - could be in relative poverty by the end of the decade.

Labour has pledged to scrap Conservative plans to tighten the work capability assessment – reforms described by disabled activists as “cynical” and “horrendously dangerous” – if it wins power at the ...