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Northern Ireland Ombudsman commences investigation into handling of Personal Independence Payment
24 June 2019 | News
... investigation into handling of Personal Independence Payments available @ https://nipso.org.uk Northern ... investigation into handling of Personal Independence Payment ...
A short guide on brokerage and the role of brokers in relation to social care
15 April 2025 | Resource
Contents Introduction What does a broker do? Broker Checklist Broker assistance when ... do? Brokers support people of various disabilities and health conditions and long term illnesses. The broker goes ... your cultural needs. Your broker will work with you to plan how to achieve your goal of suitable independent support. ...
Our funding HE factsheet for disabled students has been updated
06 January 2019 | News
... may need funding to cover tuition fees, living costs and disability-related costs. This factsheet tells you about the ... available to lessen the cost and you don’t need to pay for the course up front. Read more in our factsheet on ... hours: 11am-1pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Email: students@disabilityrightsuk.org Guides F40 - Into Higher Education - ...
New aviation passenger charter to improve flying experience for disabled travellers
06 December 2018 | News
... among disabled passengers of their rights to assistance and how to obtain it improving storage standards for wheelchairs and waiving limits for compensation payments working with industry to achieve the long-term goal ...
Disability benefit awards extended by six months if due for reassessment in next three months
22 April 2020 | News
... today said that the DWP is automatically extending disability benefit awards by six months if they are due for ... to get adequate medical evidence so we are relying very much on the claimant’s case as they explain it.” The ... session is available from parliamentlive.tv. Disability benefit awards extended by six months if due for ...
Ensuring access to justice for vulnerable people will be at the heart of the Government's Court and Tribunal digital reform programme
02 October 2019 | News
... Dr Natalie Byrom, sets out 29 detailed recommendations for how Her Majesty’s Court and Tribunal Service’s ... characteristics – for example, in relation to age, mental or physical disability, gender, and other factors associated with ...
Government has broken equality laws during pandemic, Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary tells EHRC
20 October 2020 | News
... Executive of the EHRC, she says that evidence of poorer health and economic outcomes has been ignored when laws have ... breaching the Equality Act. She said: “Equal opportunity does not mean treating everybody the same and seeing who ... had associated EIAs. It highlights ONS statistics which show that 59% of people in England and Wales who died of the ...
Full migration of UC by March 2023 a viable plan
10 July 2018 | News
... target by March 2023? Neil Couling: I am deliberately not showing too much of my hand on this at the moment, because I want to ... here—as Members of Parliament, you will know this—is how claimants react in contact with the plan. The one thing ...
High Court rejects application for second Jodey Whiting inquest
21 September 2021 | News
... open the letter and so missed the WCA. Jodey had severe mental health problems. She had also been ill with pneumonia and ... Kennedy, Head of Campaigns and Public Affairs, at Rethink Mental Illness said of the High Court’s rejection of a ...
Thousands of young Disabled people missing out on extra cost benefits
20 August 2024 | News
... has found that the number of under-16s in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) in England and Wales has ... disability benefit awards has had fiscal consequences, however, children’s disability benefits remain a ... four-fifths of initial Child DLA-to- Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reassessments led to a PIP award. Although ...