Transcript Employment and Support Allowance

Proposed changes to
WCA
Treated as having LCW
Expanded to include:
 Likely to have chemo in next 6 months (also
gives treated as having LCWRA)
 Meeting support group descriptors for eating
and drinking/chewing and swallowing
 In residential rehab for treatment of drug or
alcohol additions
Main changes - physical
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Walking now 'mobilise' – criteria for ability to repeat
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Standing or sitting - at workstation
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Bending and kneeling gone
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Manual dexterity – keypad button, suitable mouse or
keyboard
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Speech – making self understood
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Hearing – being understood
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Vision – able to navigate safely
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Continence – require change of clothing
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Consciousness – has to be within last month
Main changes - mental
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Learning – whether you can learn or not
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Awareness of hazard – requiring supervision
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Memory and concentration, execution of tasks,
sustaining personal action – 2 sequential tasks
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Getting about – includes unfamiliar place
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Social situations – becomes social engagement
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Appropriateness of behaviour – whether
unreasonable in workplace
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Dealing with other people - withdrawn
Main changes - LCWRA
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Walking becomes mobilising – increased to 50m
and repetition brought in
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Manual dexterity – keypad or pages of book
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Continence – at least once a week requiring
change of clothes
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Communication – making self understood or
understanding simple message
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Maintaining personal hygiene and personal action
combined
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New descriptors – awareness of hazard, coping
with change, coping with social engagement,
appropriateness of behaviour