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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is the out-of-work welfare benefit paid in the United Kingdom to people who are having difficulty finding work because of their long-term illness or disability. ESA was introduced in October 2008 for fresh claims to replace three older benefits: Incapacity Benefit; Income Support paid because of an illness or disability; and Severe Disablement Allowance. From October 2008, these three older benefits were no longer available to new claimants, although people already on them were unaffected at first.Between 2011 and 2014, most of the people who had been on Incapacity Benefit or Income Support since before October 2008 lost their entitlement to their \"legacy\" benefit: established recipients were assessed for a second time using a different test with more stringent criteria to see whether they qualified for ESA instead (the expectation within Westminster was that as many as one million of these recipients - 40% of the entire caseload - would either not be disabled enough to qualify for the new benefit, or would otherwise be judged capable of preparing for a return to work within two years). Of the Coalition Government's controversial package of welfare reforms, this was the policy that had the best prospect of generating substantial savings for the public purse - but also had the greatest potential negative impact on disabled people if it were badly handled.Everyone who claims ESA must be assessed and successful claimants will be liable for reassessment at the discretion of the Department for Work and Pensions. The test most people will undergo is called the Work Capability Assessment. The latest data on the success rate of new ESA claims show that after their assessment, 62% of people now receive the highest level of benefit; another 13% are also found to be unfit for work but are deemed to be able to take part in 'work-related activity'; while only 25% are found to be fit for work and therefore ineligible for ESA. Outcomes after reassessments are now even better from a claimant's point of view.Despite the major changes made to welfare in the last decade, the total number of people on out-of-work sickness benefits has remained much the same: about 2.5 million, and not one penny has been saved since 2010 from the £13billion sickness benefit budget."@en }

• Employment_and_Support_Allowance abstract "Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is the out-of-work welfare benefit paid in the United Kingdom to people who are having difficulty finding work because of their long-term illness or disability. ESA was introduced in October 2008 for fresh claims to replace three older benefits: Incapacity Benefit; Income Support paid because of an illness or disability; and Severe Disablement Allowance. From October 2008, these three older benefits were no longer available to new claimants, although people already on them were unaffected at first.Between 2011 and 2014, most of the people who had been on Incapacity Benefit or Income Support since before October 2008 lost their entitlement to their \"legacy\" benefit: established recipients were assessed for a second time using a different test with more stringent criteria to see whether they qualified for ESA instead (the expectation within Westminster was that as many as one million of these recipients - 40% of the entire caseload - would either not be disabled enough to qualify for the new benefit, or would otherwise be judged capable of preparing for a return to work within two years). Of the Coalition Government's controversial package of welfare reforms, this was the policy that had the best prospect of generating substantial savings for the public purse - but also had the greatest potential negative impact on disabled people if it were badly handled.Everyone who claims ESA must be assessed and successful claimants will be liable for reassessment at the discretion of the Department for Work and Pensions. The test most people will undergo is called the Work Capability Assessment. The latest data on the success rate of new ESA claims show that after their assessment, 62% of people now receive the highest level of benefit; another 13% are also found to be unfit for work but are deemed to be able to take part in 'work-related activity'; while only 25% are found to be fit for work and therefore ineligible for ESA. Outcomes after reassessments are now even better from a claimant's point of view.Despite the major changes made to welfare in the last decade, the total number of people on out-of-work sickness benefits has remained much the same: about 2.5 million, and not one penny has been saved since 2010 from the £13billion sickness benefit budget.".