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<p>We are committed to ensuring our welfare system encourages and supports people
into work, while providing a vital safety net for those who need it most.</p><p> </p><p>To
reflect new flexibilities in the labour market and to ensure more people are supported
to move closer to work, from 2025, we will remove the Mobilising activity used to
assess Limited Capability for Work- and Work-Related Activity (LCWRA) in the Work
Capability Assessment (WCA). To ensure that those with the most significant mobilising
limitations are still protected we will retain the LCWRA Risk regulations for physical
health. This means that where work preparation would lead to a deterioration in a
claimant’s physical health they would still meet the eligibility criteria for LCWRA.</p><p>
</p><p>The changes to the WCA will come into effect from 2025 so impacts will be seen
from 2025/26 onwards. The OBR judge that the cumulative rises in employment year-on-year
from the removal of the LCWRA Mobilising descriptor are estimated to be 500 in 2025-26,
1,800 by 2026-27 and 5,900 by 2028-29. Adding to this, the expansion of the Universal
Support scheme increases funding for placements of disabled people in existing vacancies
and for a 'place and train' programme to support them. We expect this to increase
employment by around 15,000 by 2028-29.</p><p> </p><p>Additional support will be offered
to those moving from the LCWRA group into the Limited Capability for Work (LCW) group.
This includes Employment Advice in NHS talking therapies, which combines psychological
treatment and employment support for people with mental health conditions, and the
Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care (IPSPC) programme, a supported employment
model aimed at people with physical or common mental health disabilities to enable
them to access paid jobs in the open labour market.</p>
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