DoH have now (23.1.06) published a very thorough guide to SU involvement and the benefits, tax and emplyment law implications. http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/12/68/65/04126865.pdf
Very thorough, rather scary - all payments to SU's to be notified to Revenue and JCP, welfare rights workers may need retraining, changed job descriptions (para.18). All very right and proper but this level of bureaucracy, particularly registering with the Revenue, will one suspects, kill a lot of SU involvement policies stone dead.
No mention of possible effects on DLA however.
Richard Atkinson Wirral Welfare Rights Unit
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