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Universal Credit Day one. What we say.
28 April 2013 | News
Universal Credit starts today Disability Rights UK welcome a simplified benefits system ... Despite the intention of Universal Credit to make work pay, the changes could make it harder for disabled people to ... people could lose out under Universal Credit For more about how Universal Credit is worked out see Factsheet F55 - ...
Government halves funding for Social Care workforce
04 April 2023 | News
... widely criticised. On the 4th of April, the Department of Health and Social Care announced a new "package of measures" ... speakers when the government fails to address the fundamentals, such as funding decent levels of social care and improving pay and conditions for the workforce. It is unlikely that ...
Consultation on the national minimum and living wage rates
13 April 2016 | News
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) has been asked to recommend to the ... employers, the labour market and the economy - including how firms are adjusting and impacts on pay, terms and ... workers’ employment prospects including evidence on how widely the new 21-24 Year Old Rate is used, and whether ...
Postpone tax credit cuts says Work and Pensions Committee
10 November 2015 | News
... part of plans to save £12 billion from the welfare bill. However the Committee says that even when combined with the ... income families or undermine the objective of making work pay.” Read Disability Rights UK’s concerns about the proposed Tax ...
Budget 2013
19 March 2013 | News
... element where the lone parent or both earners in a couple pay income tax. The details of how to provide this support will be determined as part of ... to ensure tax reliefs currently available for claimants of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) will be available for ...
Govt rejects Equal Lives plea for investigation into Norfolk Council Care Act breaches
20 April 2016 | News
... adult social care department. Read more in Community Care Disability group Equal Lives wrote to health secretary Jeremy Hunt in March urging him to order ... regardless of need. a decision to remove ‘wellbeing’ payments for personal budget holders in 2014 had had a ...
Travel pass protest victory for disabled passengers
18 May 2014 | News
... back by turning up and trying to board trains without paying at peak times. As a result of a series of protests ...
DWP spent £120 million pounds defending challenges to ESA and PIP decisions in just two years
31 August 2020 | News
... number of claims for both benefits –increased by 13% - showing that rise in costs is far greater than the increase ... since their introduction – often on the grounds that the health care professionals used no nothing about their ... as soon as possible and brought in house. But more fundamentally, we need widespread reform of the benefits system ...
Over a third of PIP claimants feel unable to explain things they want to at their assessment
02 January 2018 | News
Over a third of personal independence payment (PIP) claimants (39%) feel unable to explain things ... might need to have a face-to-face assessment consultation. However, areas where communication was felt to be less clear included why they might need the assessment, how long they could expect to wait for a face-to-face ...
Have the DWP’s Covid 19 support measures been effective?: new SSAC report
22 November 2020 | News
... in the number of claims for Universal Credit, which showed the system to be performing remarkably well under ... and the Minimum Income Floor (MIF) expediting payment providing a £20 per week uplift in the Standard ... of conditionality for claimants. It highlights how important it will be for conditionality to be flexible ...