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Tory peer calls for UC uplift to be maintained
23 June 2021 | News
... David Freud told The Observer that it had taken a global health crisis for the welfare system to be provided with ... Fazilet Hadi said: “David Freud’s support is welcome. However, to say that ‘people not normally in the system’ ... not those who have to live on benefits permanently due to disability is somewhat galling. It is evident that benefits ...
Sanctions ineffective as a way of getting people into jobs or to work more hours, finds suppressed DWP report
12 April 2023 | News
... benefit sanctions and promised to make the findings public. However, it subsequently buried the report and refused ... benefit sanctions “ poses significant harm to the health, finances, and well-being of claimants ”. “The ... the recent publication of the Government’s Health and disability White Paper. “This proposes to the benefits ...
DR UK gives evidence to MPs on citizenship and civic engagement
31 October 2017 | News
... Addey and Stanhope School (at 11:30 am) Mr Philip Connolly, Disability Rights UK Ms Fazilet Hadi, Royal National ... for Ageing Better Possible questions on Age and Disability How would you describe the current state of civic engagement ... citizenship and why it matters than younger generations? Does being disabled change your conception of citizenship? ...
New DR UK updated benefit sanctions factsheet free to download
20 July 2020 | News
... a benefit sanction is the different levels of sanctions how long sanctions may last avoiding or reducing the risk of ... finding coercive ways to get people off benefits when their health or other critical factors clearly make this ... make a reality of the Government’s pledge to reduce the disability employment gap. Until then, it’s vital that ...
Discrimination: Thomas Cook ordered to pay £7,500
06 October 2014 | News
... a disabled woman win £7,500 from Thomas Cook for unlawful disability discrimination Janice Campbell was one of 1600 ... View judgement . Discrimination: Thomas Cook ordered to pay £7,500 ...
New DRILL research programme
11 February 2015 | News
... communities and backgrounds, living with a wide range of mental and physical health conditions and impairments’. Disability Wales Rhian ... in place the required resources in each of the nations. How can people get involved? The project will be launched in ...
Government accepts most of the PIP review recommendations in full
07 January 2018 | News
... and that they should not assume the Department will contact health care professionals. The Department ensures that ... to include the initial review stage and also explore how to include Case Manager activity in an end-to-end audit ... Professionals to upload documentary evidence securely. Disability Rights UK recommendations to the review Our ...
Get Out Get Active goes live
30 September 2016 | News
... very ambitious initiative designed to increase physical and mental wellbeing by supporting physically inactive people around the UK to improve their health. “We want to make getting active appealing, ... major investment. The programme has the potential to change how we encourage, enable and engage more people through ...
DWP should recruit a large scale panel of disabled people with experience of social security which it can consult and draw from to work on detailed projects, says SSAC
19 January 2021 | News
... a new wide-ranging and detailed report that focuses on how the DWP involves disabled people when developing, ... to use such technology, for example because the software does not work for them, or because of lack of skills, or ... progress. In addition, a non-executive member of the Departmental Board should be given responsibility for championing ...
Little evidence to back up Universal Credit introduction - biggest welfare reform in 50 years
07 March 2018 | News
... responsible to take it on faith that UC will deliver the much improved employment outcomes they claim for the vast ... Minister in charge, I would have either rejected or ignored much of it entirely as totally incomprehensible. They were ... for more detailed information you can order a copy of the Disability Rights Handbook from our shop Little evidence to ...