Access to Work Programme
(asked on 20th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 20 March 2018 on Access to Work Scheme, HCWS563, what estimate her Department has made of the number of additional disabled people who will potentially receive assistance as a result of increasing the Access to Work grant.
The Written Ministerial Statement of 20 March on Access to Work announced that the Access to Work award limit, currently £42,100 per year, will rise from 1st April 2018 to £57,200 per annum. This will make available an increased level of potential support to those using Access to Work. We intend to publish an update to the Equality Analysis published in May 2015 as a formal addendum.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/future-of-access-to-work