Grover, Christopher and Piggott, Linda (2010) From incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance: social sorting, sickness and impairment and social security. Policy Studies, 31 (2). pp. 265-282. ISSN 1470-1006
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This article focuses upon the introduction of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) as a replacement for the main income replacement benefit, Incapacity Benefit (IB), for sick and/or disabled people in Britain. The article argues that the process of claiming ESA, a process that is dependent upon medicalised perceptions of capability to work and which is aimed at managing the perceived economic and social costs of sick and impaired people, is a means of sorting sick and/or disabled people into subgroups of claimants. The article goes on to discuss the implications of this observation with regard to explanations of the disadvantages that sick and/or disabled people face and their implications for the income of such people. The article concludes that because the shift from IB to ESA is premised upon a number of mistaken assumptions, it represents a retrograde development for people who are sick and/or who have impairments.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Policy Studies |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Applied Social Science |
| ID Code: | 55039 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 13 Jun 2012 12:03 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Mar 2013 17:32 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/55039 |
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