Employment and Support Allowance
(asked on )
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure disabled people in receipt of employment and support allowance do not face repeated work capability assessments when they move to a Universal Credit full-service area.
This question was answered on 2nd May 2018
A claimant should not be referred for a Work Capability Assessment just because he or she has moved from Employment Support Allowance (ESA) to Universal credit (UC).