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This paper draws on qualitative research with Incapacity Benefit (IB) stakeholders in the North East of England, UK. Stakeholders’ experiences of working with long-term sickness benefits recipients reveal multiple barriers that both sick and disabled people, and themselves as practitioners, clearly face. Reflections on what ongoing welfare reform could mean for future practice for both stakeholders and recipients will be explored. The findings suggests that whilst stakeholders recognise the complex barriers faced by those receiving sickness benefits, a wider moral dialogue between ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ is being created and sustained as a result of negative stereotyping of sickness benefits recipients.
Author(s): Garthwaite K, Bambra C, Warren J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Disability & Society
Year: 2013
Volume: 28
Issue: 8
Pages: 1104-1117
Print publication date: 01/01/2013
Online publication date: 13/02/2013
Date deposited: 05/02/2017
ISSN (print): 0968-7599
ISSN (electronic): 1360-0508
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2012.758032
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2012.758032
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