Christopher and Carol receive Access to Work payments, which pay for the work-based assistance they both need owing to impairment. Over the past ten years, they have run an award-winning educational farm and need assistance with the ‘lifting and shifting’. They were told in a phone call from Access to Work that their assistance would stop because the business’ profits were down last year. If they lose their appeal, they will have to make their two support workers redundant, close the farm, and potentially slaughter most of the livestock, since they will not be able to look after the animals themselves.