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Access to Work Is Failing the People It Was Built to Serve — and It Has a Direct Human Cost
In June 2026, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published a damning report on the DWP’s administration of the Access to Work scheme. The findings are stark: a backlog of 66,000 cases, average processing times of 106 working days against a 25-day target, and an application process so inaccessible that some