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The UK government has announced changes to universal credit, personal independence payment and contributory benefits. Carri Swann examines the plans, set out in DWP’s March 2025 Pathways to Work Green Paper and amended in the later Spring Statement, and explains how soon they come into effect.

Martin Williams considers cases where the DWP ‘closes’ a claim made by a new claimant of universal credit (UC) on the basis that they have failed to establish their identity.

Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26, SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?, Chapter 12: The work capability assessment, 1. What is the work capability assessment?

Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26, SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?, Chapter 12: The work capability assessment, 2. Limited capability for work assessment

Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26, SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?, Chapter 12: The work capability assessment, 3. Treated as having a limited capability for work

Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26, SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?, Chapter 12: The work capability assessment, 4. Treated as not having a limited capability for work

Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26, SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?, Chapter 12: The work capability assessment, 5. Limited capability for work-related activity assessment

Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26, SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?, Chapter 12: The work capability assessment, 6. Treated as having a limited capability for work-related activity

Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26, SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?, Chapter 12: The work capability assessment, 7. Treated as not having a limited capability for work-related activity

Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26, SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?, Chapter 12: The work capability assessment, 8. How is the WCA applied?

Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26, SECTION D: NOT IN WORK?, Chapter 12: The work capability assessment, 9. The capability for work questionnaire