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DLA factsheet updated
09 June 2013 | News
Our Disability Living Allowance factsheet has been updated to ... will instead have to claim the new Personal Independence Payment (PIP). Our Disability Rights Handbook fully explains how to claim PIP, how to appeal against a PIP refusal and ...
End of lockdown: one size fits all approach fails shielders
22 June 2020 | News
... including many disabled people and people with chronic health conditions, remove almost all of the key protective ... practical and financial support, including Statutory Sick Pay for those shielding because of the virus, and food and ... is removing the financial protection of Statutory Sick Pay for those who cannot work from home because of the ...
DR UK responds to House of Lords Universal Credit inquiry
05 March 2020 | News
... as follows: to simplify the benefits system; to make work pay; and to combat worklessness and poverty. In our submission, DR UK responds to the question - How well has Universal Credit met these three original ...
IDS on benefit deaths, PIP, food banks and tax credits
27 October 2015 | News
... and capacity; and high levels of fraud and error in benefit payments the Department’s preparedness for implementing ... and Support Allowance Welfare-to-Work and tackling the disability employment gap; and the rollout of Universal ... the WCA has improved, he says. Standard mortality figures show that people die anyway … it is very hard to determine ...
Anger over NHS Trust disabled parking fees
10 August 2015 | News
... parking provision. Sue Bott, Deputy Chief Executive at Disability Rights UK, said: "I'm not really in favour of anyone having to pay to park at hospitals... but imposing a charge on ...
First independent review of PIP
09 April 2014 | News
... the first Independent Review of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Assessment. The Minister for Disabled People ... out an Independent Review of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment within the first two years of operations. The review will examine how the assessment process is operating in its early stages. ...
European Committee finds our sickness and unemployment benefit levels inadequate
24 January 2018 | News
... Rights (ECSR) has published its annual conclusions on health, social security and social protection for 2017. ... articles of the Charter relating to the thematic group “Health, social security and social protection”: the ... on the grounds that: the level of the Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) is inadequate the minimum levels of the Employment ...
Former ILF user takes Council to court over care package cuts
16 June 2016 | News
... is in breach of the Care Act in not making sufficient payments to meet Luke’s care needs. The High Court has ... court hearing meaning that the Council needs to continue paying for the full cost of his current care package until ... day, leaving Luke by himself for 6 hours during the day. However, an independent occupational therapist was critical ...
Fuel poverty and disabled people
09 February 2015 | News
... meeting energy costs alongside other additional costs of disability; and the other from York University’s ... people and provide adequate support The assumption that disability related benefits can be used to meet all ... Urgent attention should be given to the suitability of pre=payment meters in terms of usability and the risks of ...
Nearly half of all those living in poverty live in a household where someone is disabled
28 July 2019 | News
... society including disabled people and people with long-term health conditions. Yet, since 2008, changes to welfare ... poverty and isolation as a result. DR UK is a member of the Disability Benefit’s Consortium (DBC). The recent DBC ... lost around £1,200 per year due to welfare reform. However, the report is also important as it makes a series ...