Welfare Reform
Incapacity Benefit and disability related Income Support are being replaced by a new benefit called Employment and Support Allowance.
The MS Society wants to make sure that these changes do not make it harder for anyone with MS to get the benefits that they need.
Employment and Support Allowance
Read details of the changes to the benefits system, find out how they will affect people with MS, and find out about what the MS Society is doing to make sure the system works for people with MS.
Find out more about ESA and the MS Society's work.
Read the MS Society's response to the Government's welfare reform green paper in Autumn 2008 which proposed the changes to the benefits system.
Read a report on the experiences of people with MS and arthritis who use employment services. The report, commissioned by the MS Society and Arthritis Care, explores the particular employment issues faced by people with fluctuating conditions and hidden disabilities.
The MS Society also lobbies government on benefit issues as a member of the Disability Benefits Consortium. The Disability Benefits Consortium brings together a wide range of disability organisations, cancer charities, older people’s organisations, advice services, and carers’ organisations.
Find out more about the benefits to which people with MS are entitled.
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