Just one quarter of people in employment prior to successfully claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) had returned to work 18 months later, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has found.
The results showed half (49%) the people claiming had a condition which commenced in the last two years (2008//09) and that an early recovery and people's overall health beliefs were a key factor in completing a return to work, it added. However, it revealed work-based support was valuable to employees as those who had received occupational health (OH) help prior to claiming had been able to work longer. The statistics illustrated how unlikely it is for people to fully return to work once they have begun claiming state benefits, and were even lower for those not previously in employme...
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