In fact he designed a different part of the employment support allowance.

Following a 54-minute assessment, Woollard says she was turned down for employment support allowance.

We were expecting that 25% of the referrals coming through overall to be people on employment and support allowance.

Incapacity benefit has been replaced with employment and support allowance.

After applying for employment and support allowance she was still called in for a compulsory back to work interview.

What happens when you lose employment and support allowance, as many will, come April (if the bill goes through)?

In order to have any financial support during this trying time, we had to claim employment support allowance.

Peers rejected means testing of the employment support allowance for some cancer patients after 12 months, extending it to two years.

- £2bn by time-limiting the contributory element of employment support allowance to one year.

Even if the disabled person received employment support allowance at the highest rate for people completely unable to work, it would all go towards rent.