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Leading disability organisations call for halt to ESA cuts
28 February 2017 | News
Leading disability organisations stage 11th hour call for Government ... Almost 7 in 10 (69%) say cuts to ESA will cause their health to suffer More than a quarter (28%) say they ... communities. travel. We need the Government to recognise how damaging these cuts will be and stop them before their ...
Flawed Universal Credit benefit is pushing people into poverty, says Human Rights Watch
28 September 2020 | News
... the cause of human rights for all. Its report details how a poorly designed algorithm is causing people to go ... The watchdog calls for a comprehensive redesign of how the government calculates Universal Credit is urgently ... how frequently people are paid. If people receive multiple pay checks in one month – common among people in irregular ...
Disabled claimants set to lose Warm Home Discounts
20 March 2022 | News
... to a change in who the Government deems entitled to claim. Disability Living Allowance (DLA), Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and Attendance Allowance (AA) will no longer ... Daily Mirror . But it will exclude around 210,000 people on disability benefits from applying for the vital payment. New ...
Feedback wanted for a consultation on changes to London door-to-door transport services
21 December 2016 | News
... budgets are a viable option. There is no single model of how a personal budget would work. TfL and its Partners would ... Committee, as well as some questions from myself about how people use door-to-door transport. If you would like to ... and at what personal expense to yourself? What benefit does door-to-door transport have on your life? The Transport ...
PIP review terms of reference published
20 May 2014 | News
The first independent review of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment process. On 10 April 2014, the ... experience of taking part in the assessments perceptions of healthcare professionals and other staff involved in ... rate PIP as a result of needs arising from their condition/disability; and effectiveness of the PIP assessment in ...
Employment contracts
15 April 2025 | Resource
... towards the cost of your support, or if you are a personal health budget (PHB) recipient and receiving funding from the NHS, you will be able to choose how the total sum of money is spent and take as much control over your care in a way that best suits you. ...
Nearly Half of Families With A Disabled Child Living in Poverty
30 January 2024 | News
... provide a more accurate way of calculating deprivation – shows that nearly half of all individuals in families with at ... is that they account for what is known as “inescapable disability-related costs” (IDC), which HBAI ignores. ... driver of food bank use – Essentials Guarantee needed Health of Millions at risk as Universal Credit Falls So Far ...
Smith Commission: Scottish devolved powers
26 November 2014 | News
... Scotland will have powers to: change the frequency of UC payments vary the existing plans for single household ... Parliament: Attendance Allowance Carer’s Allowance Disability Living Allowance (DLA) Personal Independence ... that the Scottish Parliament provides. New arrangements for how Motability will operate in Scotland for DLA/PIP ...
Getting It Right For Disabled Apprentices report launched
06 February 2022 | News
... of the scheme. The report was written by Rabia Lemahieu, Disability and Skills Manager at Disability Rights UK. She said: “Apprenticeships are a ... being proactive about conversations about impairments and health conditions; and better processes for getting help ...
Improved support needed for disabled university students
13 July 2020 | News
... to scrap the £200 charge disabled students need to pay towards their specialist equipment. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability (for which DR UK co-provides the secretariat ... and the financial contribution of £200 they have to pay towards it. From this September it is likely that most ...