Social Firms UK

This leaflet explains benefit linking rules for those receiving Employment & Support Allowance. To be emailed a copy of it, contact info@socialfirmsuk.co.uk

It is possible to be self-employed while you are in receipt of incapacity benefits under certain conditions. In this leaflet, written in August 2007, Judy Scott explains how.

This information sheet outlines the Government's 'Access To Work' scheme and how it can provide support to organisations employing disabled people. Case studies are included.

This is a discussion paper for reforming Welfare To Work at both Scottish and UK level. It looks at the Benefits System and produced recommendations for improvement. The topic is similar to a report produced in October 2004 by Social Enterprise Partnership about the situation in England, called "Addressing disincentives to work associated with the welfare benefits system in the UK and abroad". Leona McDermid, author of Bridging The Gap therefore wrote another document to analyse the two approaches taken in these two reports.

In October 2005 Leona McDermid wrote a paper called "Bridging The Gap" (available through the Social Firms UK Resource Centre as a freely downloadable PDF). This discussed reforming Welfare To Work in the UK, looked at the Benefits System and produced recommendations for improvement. The topic was similar to a report produced in October 2004 by Social Enterprise Partnership about the situation in England, called "Addressing disincentives to work associated with the welfare benefits system in the UK and abroad" (also available in PDF format through the Social Firms UK Resource Centre). "Different routes, same destination" is Leona's analysis of the two approaches taken in these two reports.