Search results
1151-1160 of 3899 results
Attendance Allowance
23 April 2025 | Resource
... condition Attendance allowance residence and presence tests How much is attendance allowance? How to claim attendance ... tests for six months before you can be paid. This rule does not apply if you are nearing the end of your life . ...
Council school transport policies must not fail disabled young adults
06 August 2018 | News
... to drive her son to the college identified in his Education Health and Care (EHC) Plan, when he turned 19. The ... social care assessment once he became an adult, including mental capacity, transport and care needs during the ...
Disabled People To Be Hit By Cuts Of Almost £2 Billion More Than Widely Reported
02 April 2025 | News
... being pushed into poverty, including 50,000 children. However, the NEF says that the way these figures have been ... independence payment (PIP) assessment and cutting the health top-up in Universal Credit (UC) will see Disabled ... losing benefits and the threat of conditionality all fundamentally undermine the sort of genuine engagement with ...
AGM January 2015
26 January 2015 | News
Disability Rights UK 3rd Annual General Meeting: 26 January ... concerning indefinite awards of discretionary payments as well as suggestions for the treatment of DLA ... request on this issue . to ensure the DWP sanctions policy does not unfairly penalise disabled people . Over the next ...
Welfare Reform and Work Bill: Joint briefing on support for housing costs for 18-21 year olds
06 October 2015 | News
... groups will be exempt, but have not yet confirmed how this would work in practice This joint briefing ... olds the briefing states: c) Those with a disability or mental health problem receiving the equivalent of Employment ...
Government responds to committee report on sanctions
10 February 2019 | News
... capability for work or those who have an impairment or health condition, including mental health, and who present a valid Fit Note stating that ... from the sector to explore options further on how we engage claimants in provision and conditionality” ...
£299 cost of living payment to be issued between 6 and 22 February 2024
19 January 2024 | News
The DWP has said that the third cost of living payment of £299 for 2023/2024 will be sent automatically ... February and 22 February 2024. This is the third of three payments over the financial year, totalling up to £900. The ... need to contact DWP or do anything to receive the payment.However, if a someone becomes retrospectively entitled to a ...
Lords vote for Tax Credit cut delay and compensation for losers
26 October 2015 | News
... raises constitutional issues that need to be dealt with. However, it has happened and now we must address the ... policy, which is to halve the disability employment gap. It does not make sense. Do not forget, either, that that gap is currently running at over 30%. Higher costs in health and social care are the inevitable result of ...
DR UK oppose Illegal Migration Bill
16 May 2023 | News
... against women and girls, LGBTQI+, disability rights, health, housing, racial justice, criminal justice, arts, ... attacks the very core of human rights, which is the fundamental belief that we all have human rights regardless of ... to liberty, which are all threatened by this Bill. Not only does the Bill substantially threaten human rights, it aims ...
NHS Test and Trace system risks failure without adequate sick pay, says TUC
09 September 2020 | News
... system risks failure unless ministers boost Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) and ensure everyone is eligible for it. The ... new survey - carried out for the TUC by BritainThinks – shows that two-fifths (43%) of workers would be unable to pay ... benefits system unfit for purpose, says TUC available from disabilityrightsuk.org. NHS Test and Trace system risks ...