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Pushed to the Edge: Poverty, food banks and mental health
08 March 2022 | News
... the impact of poverty and food bank use on people's mental health. The report, Pushed to the Edge, is based on in-depth ... led them to turn to a food bank were complex and personal. However, he also stresses it was clear that the underlying ...
DR UK’s Template Submission To The PIP Green Paper Consultation
10 July 2024 | News
... extensive and personal independence payment (PIP) reform. However, it was clear that the proposals were predicated on ... the PIP consultation. We would hope and ask that it does so. However, given that this is uncertain, DR UK ... The Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability Green Paper is available from ...
Councils overcharging tens of thousands of disabled people who are severely mentally impaired
03 October 2017 | News
... entitled to a 25% council tax discount due to their poor mental health could be missing out, with a massive variation in ... impaired (SMI) discount correctly told the 'applicant' how to make a claim, vs just 5% of the councils with the ...
Government’s poverty lie: Universal Credit Bill changes will still push 100,000 into poverty
14 July 2025 | News
... will result in 50,000 people being in poverty by 2029/30. However, an analysis by the social security information ... particularly by making the criteria for substantial risk much harder to meet for claimants with mental health conditions. “But its changes to the WCA were ...
Systemic Racism worsened COVID health outcomes for Disabled People of Colour
13 July 2023 | News
... Commission on COVID-19, Ableism and Racism published today shows the major failings that occurred in how the government ... during the pandemic. The commission scrutinised governmental policies and pandemic responses that evidence ... and minority ethnic communities. This exposed just how much race and disability impact a person’s life chances. ...
“Under strain” – the real causes of the rise in working-age disability and incapacity benefits spending
26 June 2024 | News
... to work or incur additional costs. This is a task as much for the NHS, wider public services, and employers – ... from the past, and seek to design a benefits system that does not create more problems than it solves. In recent ... benefits have been hit, some of that pressure has shown up as rising claims for health-related benefits which ...
DWP told to pay £50,000 to Deaf job-seeker after repeated failure to provide BSL interpreter
28 May 2024 | News
... The tribunal refers three times in its judgement to how Mr. Rimmer’s experience of repeated failures by the ... discrimination, the tribunal concluded, it damaged his “mental wellbeing, whether by frustration or upset or ... and I hope things will change more widely. “I hope it doesn’t just change at Leeds but that the DWP look more ...
UN Rapporteurs Question UK Government Over Benefits Deaths and Austerity
19 March 2024 | News
... are facing. They consistently expressed that evidence shows violations of the UNCRDP, including a regression of ... take responsibility on their failure to deliver this, that doesn’t mean that it’s not unacceptable. The world is ... disabled people will only make things worse. There is still much work to do to hold the government to account and expose ...
DBC demands bedroom tax exemptions for disabled people
26 November 2013 | News
... changes to Housing Benefit. The latest official statistics show that more than half a million social housing tenants are ... social sector property they occupy. The Government has made much of the help of extra discretionary housing payments ... to reduce housing benefit spending, ‘real data’ does not match key assumptions underlying the DWP’s model. ...
Personal health budgets in mental health briefing
13 April 2015 | News
... and Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) briefing on personal health budgets in mental health This briefing paper highlights innovative examples of where personal budgets are used in mental health. It identifies people with mental health ...