Work, income and benefits

These pages include resources relating to the transition experiences of young visually impaired people as they move through education, seek employment and make plans to live independently.

Other reports look at the income needed for people with different degrees of sight loss to have a minimum acceptable standard of living.

Experiences of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for People with Sensory Loss

These documents commissioned by TPT, RNIB and Sense show that the transition to PIP from DLA for people with sight loss was overwhelming negative despite positive financial outcomes.

Low Income and Visual Impairment: Do Benefits and Wages Meet Minimum Income Standards?

Thomas Pocklington Trust in collaboration with the University of Loughborough have provided this study to work out the extent to which visually impaired people need benefits and minimum wages as part or all of the income to meet a minimum income standard (MIS).

Sight Loss and Minimum Income Standards – the Additional Costs of Severity and Age

This research from Thomas Pocklington Trust sets out to identify the additional budget needed, with the exclusion of housing costs, in order for a severely sight impaired person of pension age living alone to reach a minimum acceptable standard of living.

Additional Costs of Living for People who are Sight Impaired or Severely Sight Impaired

This research report commissioned by Thomas Pocklington Trust highlights key areas of cost difference between sighted and vision impaired people as well as the cost dependent on stage of life and severity of sight loss.

Transition: Empowering Visually Impaired Young People as they Move to Adulthood

As part of the their Longitudinal Transitions Study, Thomas Pocklington Trust has prepared these links as part of the third phase of the longitudinal study carried out by the Vision Impairment Centre for Teaching and Research (VICTAR) at Birmingham University.