Report looking at different options for reform or removal of WCA

Written by Ben Geiger -

After several near misses, the era of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) may be coming to a close. In March 2023, the Conservative Government proposed that the WCA would be scrapped, replaced by a new system that relies instead on the assessment for disability-related extra costs within Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

But exactly what comes next? And will it be better than the WCA? Or will we instead decide to replace the WCA with something similar? The concrete choices that the next Government face have not been made clear. In this briefing, I show both worst-case and best-case scenarios (and what a better WCA might look like), so that we can more clearly see how to make a reformed system a success.

https://inequalities.substack.com/p/after-the-wca-incapacity-benefit-reform