ABSTRACT
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report suggests the need to unbundle the disability status from disability benefit recipiency. As social assistance regimes do with poverty, disability policies not only provide different resource packages, but define and assess differently disabilities and the disabled in various contexts and for various purposes. Possibly because of a resistance to easily transpose the kinds of policies, one of the issues raised by the OECD policy conclusions in this context has not been addressed, namely that of the opportunity to maintain the household means test in the means-tested disability schemes in a mutual obligation approach. Both "disability" and "rehabilitation" were treated in a very generic way, as if skills did not matter for outcomes, both of disability and of rehabilitation. Careful longitudinal studies on disabled benefit recipients are necessary before drawing any conclusion concerning welfare dependency.
