Therapeutic Work -
Its benefit to the patient
& the community

Therapeutic Work to be replaced by Permitted Work:
the Government's proposed changes for April 2002
Tax year
(April-April)
    
Maximum hours per week
- on average
- under TEL
1998-1999
National Minimum Wage (NMW) Act passed in July 1998 Low Pay comission (LPC) given a statutory role.

‘Adult’ rate (the main rate) introduced and updated (irregularly)

Minimum wage rate £ per hour (with effect from...)
‘Youth’ rate NMW for those aged l8 and above but less than 22

Those under l8 are not covered by the NMW

(with effect from...)

Therapeutic work (TW) and Therapeutic Earnings Limits (TEL)

Therapeutic Earnings Limit

(£ per week)
Earnings after the deduction of allowable expenses

£48.00 per week
Less than
16 hours
1999-2000
£3.60 per hour from
1 April 1999
£3.00 per hour
£58 per week
(Less than
16 hours)
2000-2001
£3.70 per hour from October 2000
£3.20 per hour from June 2000 £58.50 per week
(Less than
16 hours)
2001-2002
£4.10 per hour from October 2001

£4.20 per hour from October 2002
£60.50 per week

New ‘permitted work’ rules for benefits were announced by the Government in March 2001

New rules introduced w.e.f.
8 April 2002.
Permitted work replaces
therapeutic work.
(Less than
16 hours)
Millennium Awards MIND
6th August 2004