Unum is challenging six UK bloggers to live on Employment Support Allowance (ESA) for one week to highlight the importance of workers protecting their income.
From today the bloggers will be surviving on the average payment for people on ESA of £95 and writing about the challenges of living on this amount. ESA is the benefit for UK workers on long-term sick leave and replaced Incapacity Benefit and Income Support in 2008. As COVER has previously reported, acceptance rates for the benefit are at just 18% overall, with 12% being expected to perform certain work-related activities and only 6% found severely disabled enough to be placed in the support group. The Work Capability Assessment which is used to assess claimants' mental and physica...
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