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New £500 Test and Trace Support payment for people claiming qualifying benefits who are required to self-isolate
20 September 2020 | News
... for the £500 payment are contained in updated Pubic Health England guidance - Stay at home guidance for ... without adequate sick pay, says TUC Covid-19 pandemic shows our benefits system unfit for purpose, says TUC – available from disabilityrightsuk.org. New £500 Test and Trace Support ...
Data Protection Bill Proposes “Wholly Unnecessary” Surveillance Measures That Are A “Disproportionate Violation” Of Benefit Claimants Privacy
16 January 2024 | News
... and safeguards, making it more difficult for people to know how their data is being used, how decisions affecting them ... benefits for no good reason, resulting in the inability to pay heating bills, purchase medical supplies, or afford ... of members of the public, with disproportionate detrimental impact upon people in the welfare system and ...
DWP staff fail in two-fifths of cases to meet new standards aimed at preventing claimant deaths
24 June 2024 | News
... or take their own lives. DNS has previously reported how DWP staff had to be repeatedly reminded what to do when ... that it has safeguards in place to protect them, including mental health training for all frontline staff. Ken Butler DR ...
Benefit Sanctions More Likely For Black and Minority Ethnic Claimants
17 September 2024 | News
... to extreme hardship, including food bank use , poor mental and physical health and financial debt. Black and minority ethnic benefit ... and ethnic minority communities.” These disparities show clear evidence of structural racism, and this level of ...
MPs Call for DWP To Have Statutory Duty to Safeguard Claimants
20 May 2025 | News
... of a broader set of recommendations to drive the “fundamental” cultural change needed to repair “sorely ... everyone in the department. In addition, the potential health impacts of all new significant policies must be ... the DWP have a statutory duty of care towards claimants. However, this should be coupled with a public inquiry into ...
Damning new MP report calls for end to long-term incarceration of people with autism and learning disabilities
15 July 2021 | News
... have been made off the back of a new report by the Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee. The failure to ... “as if their condition is an illness instead of a fundamental part of their identity… The tragic result of this ... fatal misunderstanding is that they often do then develop mental or physical illnesses which are used to justify their ...
SSAC consult on alleged ESA loophole closure
07 December 2014 | News
... to make a successful repeat claim for benefit unless their health has deteriorated or changed. ESA will not be paid to ... off opportunities for exploitation by a determined few. However, we want to look more closely at whether these ... and how. For example, some of those affected may have mental health or fluctuating conditions with no intention of ...
DR UK responds to housing consultations
24 August 2022 | News
... the UK provide features that are accessible. And research shows that more than 400,000 wheelchair users in England live ... removing legal recourse for renters. Mikey Erhardt, at Disability Rights UK said, "We need to see new regulations ... measures are needed to protect tenants. We are paying too much to live in dangerous, inaccessible homes, and the ...
Disabled Peoples Organisations Forum reject new ‘tick box’ National Disability Strategy
29 July 2021 | News
... decision to go ahead with the launch of a National Disability Strategy.” DR UK is a member of the DPO Forum ... of a National Disability Strategy that is not a strategy, does not address key problems, does not reflect the issues and priorities of Disabled ...
Michael Gove suggests cutting child benefits if children miss school
06 March 2023 | News
... child may not be able to attend school. Outside of ill health and medical appointments, causes could also include ... "likely to be counter-productive". "It is very hard to see how consigning children to poverty and starvation will ... said: "Poorly informed and discriminatory punitive action does have a huge impact on parents of Disabled children. ...