reduced earnings allowance

However, the 1986 Social Security Act froze the reduced earnings allowance (previously called the special hardship allowance) on retirement and offset it against earnings-related pension, thereby reducing the compensation for the impact of disablement on those over retirement age.

They have repeatedly cut benefits for the disabled by abolishing industrial injury benefit, by abolishing disablement benefit for seven out of eight disabled people and by abolishing the reduced earnings allowance for disabled people who cannot earn a full wage.