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<p>Anyone, including disabled people, can apply for financial and practical help through
the Government’s Start Up Loans scheme.</p><br /><p>Access to Work, which helps people
with a disability or health condition to stay in work or start work, now features
a new specialist self-employment team to support entrepreneurs and the self-employed.</p><br
/><p>Unemployed potential entrepreneurs, including those with disabilities or health
conditions, can talk to their Jobcentre Plus Work Coach, or where appropriate, Disability
Employment Adviser (DEA), regarding national programmes like Work Choice, Work Programme
and the new Specialist Employability Support. These programmes offer tailored services
which can include practical support and advice for becoming self-employed.</p><br
/><p>Work coaches can also refer claimants, including disabled clients, to the New
Enterprise Allowance (NEA). Over 73,000 new businesses have started up through the
scheme and 20% of NEA business starts have been made by disabled people. Disabled
jobseekers who are accepted onto the NEA scheme may also be entitled to receive an
Access to Work grant.</p><br />
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