links for 2011-01-23

• Making the most of the CEO's last 100 days
  (tags: management work mckinseyqtly)
• Disabled & want to work? Think carefully!
  More on the "linking rules" issue.
  (tags: disability benefits dwp cuts)
• Incapacity benefit linking rules end this month
  "Linking rules which allow incapacity benefit (IB) claimants to return to their previous rate of benefits if they try work and have to stop again on health grounds are to be scrapped from 31 January. From that date onwards any former IB claimant who stops work will no longer be able to take advantage of the 104 week linking rules and will, instead, have to make a fresh claim for employment and support allowance. They will be eligible only for the assessment rate for the first 13 weeks of their claim, a lower amount than they would have been entitled to if they had been covered by the linking rules, as they were promised they would be at the time they started work."
  (tags: benefits dwp disability equality employment)

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