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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
End of life charity Marie Curie report shows 300 people die in poverty every day in the UK
12 November 2024 | News
... leading end of life charity have released a report which shows that the proportion of people dying in poverty has ... and campaigns officer at DR UK and one of the leads at the Disability Poverty Campaign Group said: “Yet another ... warm home discount, reversing the cuts to the winter fuel payments, and guaranteeing working age people - with less ...
EHRC demands mandatory disability data reporting by large employers
29 August 2018 | News
... that just 3% of organisations measure their ethnicity or disability pay gaps. Read report As a result, disabled people’s ... staff recruitment, retention and promotion by ethnicity and disability – this should be a legal requirement by April ...
Call for evidence on the Claimant Commitment
19 March 2019 | News
... This research aims to build a better understanding of how effective the Claimant Commitment is in terms of ... of what actions are needed in returns for benefit payments, help build trust in the welfare system. The focus ... For example, people with caring responsibilities or a disability Call for evidence on the Claimant Commitment ...
Debt worse under UC than other benefits
05 February 2019 | News
... Citizens Advice helps with Universal Credit struggle to pay for housing as they wait for payment Among the people the charity helps with debt and ... living costs (such as food, housing and transport) to pay creditors, or are spending more than they take in. More ...
Stephen Crabb reaffirms no PIP cuts
28 June 2016 | News
... of State at DWP addresses All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability AGM. Over seventy observers, MPs and peers heard ... commitment that the planned saving in personal independence payment would not be sought from cuts in welfare payments ... paper to be published later this year that would set out how the Government intends to achieve its ambition of ...