What is Pathways to Work?

Pathways to Work provides extra support if you have a health condition or a disability to help you move in to work or to be able to work in the future.

If you are making a new or repeat claim for any of the following:

• Incapacity Benefit;
• Income Support on the grounds of Incapacity;
• Income support whilst appealing against a decision that Incapacity Benefit is not payable; or
• Severe Disablement Allowance,

you will automatically be part of Pathways to Work.

Anyone not automatically included can volunteer for the service and the help it provides.

The range of help we can offer you may include:

• Extra money to help you when you start work; New programmes of help for you to understand and better manage your condition or disability; Information about work that you might be able to do without losing your benefit, permitted work, and;
• New and existing financial help, New Deal for Disabled People; training and employment programmes.

Jobcentre Plus delivers Pathways to Work in 18 areas. These areas are listed below and anyone wishing to access the service in these areas can read more in the Choices leaflet

 Choices leaflet (138.52kb)

Areas where Pathways to Work is delivered solely by Jobcentre Plus:

• Ayrshire, Dumfries, Galloway & Inverclyde
• Cumbria and Lancashire
• Cheshire, Halton and Warrington (partial district coverage)
• Derbyshire
• Dorset & Somerset
• Essex
• Glasgow
• Greater Manchester Central
• Highland, Islands, Clyde Coast & Grampian
• Lanarkshire and East Dumbartonshire
• Merseyside
• Northumbria
• South Tyne & Wear Valley
• South Wales Valleys
• South West Wales
• South Yorkshire
• Staffordshire
• Tees Valley

The remaining 31 areas in England, Scotland and Wales have the Pathways to Work service delivered mainly by the private and voluntary sector. For more information please read the leaflet 'Pathways to Work'

 Pathways to Work (38.37kb)

 Pathways to Work - Large Print (39.41kb)

Areas where Pathways to Work is delivered by Jobcentre Plus in partnership with private and voluntary organisations:

• Birmingham and Solihull
• Black Country
• Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
• Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire
• Cambridge and Suffolk
• Cardiff & Vale/South East Wales
• Central London
• Cheshire, Halton and Warrington (partial district coverage)
• City and East London
• Cornwall and Devon
• Coventry and Warwickshire
• Edinburgh, Lothian and Borders
• Forth Valley, Fife, Tayside
• Gloucestershire Wiltshire and Swindon
• Greater Manchester East and West
• Hampshire and Isle of Wight
• Kent
• Lambeth, Southwark and Wandsworth
• Leicester/Northants
• Lincolnshire and Rutland
• Marches
• Norfolk
• North and Mid Wales
• North and North East London
• North/East Yorkshire and The Humber
• Nottinghamshire
• South London
• Surrey and Sussex
• West of England
• West London
• West Yorkshire