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Time to think again: disability benefits and support after COVID-19

The benefits system for disabled people, and the support that accompanies it, are broken. This report shows that across a range of metrics, the system is failing disabled people and their families and communities.
Published: 24 February 2021
Author: Matthew Oakley
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Measuring the Disability Pay Gap in London

This report, commissioned by Peabody, provides new insights into the lives of individuals living in London - in particular, with respect to their living standards and financial situation.
Published: 05 September 2019
Author: Scott Corfe
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Supporting disabled people into work – A view from London

This Social Market Foundation (SMF) report provides new evidence on the labour market outcomes of Londoners with a work limiting condition or disability.
Published: 01 May 2018
Author: Matthew Oakley
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Striving for better: Welfare and a labour market that work for disabled people

This is the second in a series of reports by the Social Market Foundation that consider the Government’s ambition of halving the disability employment gap.
Published: 20 October 2016
Author: Matthew Oakley
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Disability, Skills and Work: Raising our ambitions

This paper finds that improving the employment rate of disabled people to the UK average would boost the UK economy by £13 billion, equivalent to six months economic growth.
Published: 01 June 2007
Author: Social Market Foundation
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The Incapacity Trap: Report of the SMF Commission on Incapacity Benefit Reform

This report argues that reform should focus on providing the right conditions for these people to re-enter employment, rather than prolonging their stay on a benefit which helps neither them nor society.
Published: 30 June 2005
Author: Moussa Haddad
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