Disability Living Allowance and work: Exploratory research and evidence review

Disabled people of working age have a lower rate of employment and suffer relatively high levels of poverty. In line with welfare reform policy, the Government wishes to increase the numbers of disabled people in work and, in 2006, set an ambitious target of reducing by one million the number of people on incapacity benefits by 2015. Because there is a large overlap between the population of incapacity benefits claimants and those in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wished to find out more about this group of customers about whom relatively little data exists.