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Disability Rights Handbook 2026-27
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01 Jun 2026
SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?
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SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?
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SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?
Chapter 10: Statutory sick pay
ABOUT STATUTORY SICK PAY
1. What is statutory sick pay?
2. Do you qualify?
3. Qualifying days
4. Period of entitlement
Box D.1: Who cannot get SSP?
5. Period of incapacity for work
6. How much do you get?
7. Does anything affect what you get?
8. How do you get SSP?
9. Supporting medical evidence
10. Challenging a decision
11. Enforcing a decision
12. What happens when SSP ends?
13. What if your job ends?
Chapter 11: Employment and support allowance
GENERAL CONDITIONS
1. What is employment and support allowance?
2. Assessment phase
3. Work capability assessment
4. Work-related activity group
5. Support group
6. Do you qualify?
7. ESA rates
8. How do you claim?
9. Date of claim
10. Payments
11. Linking rule
12. Disqualification
13. Time limits
14. Does anything affect what you get?
CONTRIBUTION CONDITIONS
15. National insurance contributions
16. Contribution credits
Box D.2: Contribution credits
17. Contribution conditions
18. First condition: paid contributions
19. Second condition: paid or credited contributions
Chapter 12: The work capability assessment
GENERAL POINTS
1. What is the work capability assessment?
2. Limited capability for work assessment
Box D.3: Limited capability for work assessment – physical functions
Box D.4: Limited capability for work assessment – mental, cognitive and intellectual functions
3. Treated as having a limited capability for work
4. Treated as not having a limited capability for work
5. Limited capability for work-related activity assessment
Box D.5: Limited capability for work-related activity assessment
6. Treated as having a limited capability for work-related activity
7. Treated as not having a limited capability for work-related activity
HOW THE ASSESSMENT IS APPLIED
8. How is the WCA applied?
9. The capability for work questionnaire
10. Completing the questionnaire – eating and drinking
11. Completing the questionnaire – physical health capabilities
12. Completing the questionnaire – mental, cognitive and intellectual capabilities
13. Returning the questionnaire
14. The assessment
15. Exceptional circumstances
CHALLENGING DECISIONS
16. Challenging the decision: mandatory reconsiderations
17. Challenging the decision: appeals
Box D.6: Appeal tactics – limited capability for work assessment
18. Appeals on the limited capability for work assessment
19. Appeals on the limited capability for work-related activity assessment
20. If your condition deteriorates
RE-ASSESSMENTS
21. Re-assessments
Chapter 13: Jobseeker’s allowance
ABOUT JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE
1. What is jobseeker’s allowance?
2. Do you qualify
3. Working full time or part time
4. Limited capability for work
5 . National insurance contribution conditions
6. How much do you get?
7. Does anything affect what you get?
8. How do you claim?
9. How long does JSA last?
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Chris Lewis. "SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?." In
Disability Rights Handbook 2026-27.
, 2026. Accessed September 29, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-271634CITANCHOR.
Chris Lewis. "SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?." In
Disability Rights Handbook 2026-27.
, 2026. Accessed September 29, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-271634CITANCHOR.
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Disability Rights Handbook 2026-27
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