{"id":84917,"date":"2017-09-29T14:25:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=11664ebddc731e917294c23b3b68b7f8"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:25:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:25:47","slug":"news-story-benefit-reassessments-stopped-for-those-most-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84917","title":{"rendered":"News story: Benefit reassessments stopped for those most in need"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Coming into effect from today (29 September 2017), claimants in the Employment and Support Allowance (<abbr title=\"Employment and Support Allowance\">ESA<\/abbr>) support group and Universal Credit (<abbr title=\"Universal Credit\">UC<\/abbr>) recipients with limited capability for work and work-related activity will no longer need to be reassessed if they:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have a severe, lifelong disability, illness or health condition<\/li>\n<li>are unlikely to ever be able to move into work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/employment-and-support-allowance-and-universal-credit-changes-to-the-work-capability-assessment\">Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit: changes to the Work Capability Assessment <\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People suffering from the most severe health conditions or disabilities will no longer be routinely reassessed to continue receiving ESA and UC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}