Closure of Work and Health Programme comes hard on heels of Rishi Sunak’s bid to end the UK’s supposed ‘sicknote’ cultureA major scheme to help disabled people into work has been quietly scrapped – just as the prime minister announced a crackdown on disability benefits.The £100m Work and Health Programme, operating in England and Wales, will end in the autumn, providers have been told, at the same time that Rishi Sunak wants to cut benefits for 420,000 sick and disabled people in an attempt to force them into work – a move that charities say would instead leave people destitute. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/21/help-disabled-people-england-wales-jobs-axed-benefits-crackdown
Author : James Tapper
Publish date : 2024-04-21 13:00:55
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