Welfare Rights Bulletin (204 June 2008)

• The work capability assessment
  Simon Osborne describes the new test for Employment and Support Allowance of whether someone is too ill to work. This article updates the information on pages 147 and following of CPAG's Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook.

• Inspecting the inspectors
  In the latest of an occasional series of articles on the decisions of social fund inspectors (see Bulletins 196, 197 and 200), David Simmons considers some recent cases about capital, repeat applications and budgeting loans.

Also in this issue:

• News in brief
  
• Employment and support allowance – the details
  In the first of a series of articles, Simon Osborne describes the regulations that set out the main detailed rules for employment and support allowance (ESA). Articles dealing with rules on ESA and youth, students, linking rules, decisions and appeals and calculating ESA will appear in future Bulletins.
  
  This article and the above one on the Work Capability Assessment update the main ESA chapter (chapter 7) of CPAG’s Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook.
  
• Exporting AA, CA and DLA care – fitting a square peg in a round hole?
  Pamela Fitzpatrick explores some of the problems thrown up by the ECJ judgement on the exporting of certain benefits.
• Q&A Child benefit when child is living in another part of the EU
• Handbook update
• Legal section
• Court cases round-up
• Commissioners' decisions
• Training

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