Work capability assessment
Resources and information for advisers on the work capability assessment.
Online handbooks
Information on the work capability assessment in our online handbooks:
Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook (for subscribers):
Disability Rights Handbook (for subscribers):
Articles
The most recent articles from our Welfare Rights Bulletin on the work capability assessment:
- ‘Cross-examined’? How the tribunal asks questions (April 2024)
- The WCA and the future (June 2023)
- ‘Substantial risk’ and the WCA (December 2021)
- What’s a ‘good reason’? (February 2020)
Tools and templates
Our tools include tools to help you draft a mandatory reconsideration request to challenge a decision on limited capability for work and/or limited capability for work related activity:
- Employment and support allowance work capability assessment: mandatory reconsideration letter (free to access until 28 June 2024)
- Universal credit work capability assessment: mandatory reconsideration (free to access until 28 June 2024)
Our judicial review (JR) pre-action protocol template letters for advisers:
- Judicial review pre-action protocol letters: Universal credit - work capability assessments
- Judicial review pre-action protocol letters: Employment and support allowance
For copies of the JR template letters, advice about whether JR is the appropriate route, and for help with adapting the templates, contact our Judicial Review Project ([email protected]).
Briefings
Our briefing on the government’s response to the Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry on health assessments:
Our briefing on the government’s proposals to end the work capability assessment:
- The future of the work capability assessment (March 2023)