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IIAC advises industrial injuries changes
16 June 2014 | News
... by the claimant’s working conditions. Currently the rule does not apply to all industrial diseases and some diseases ...
Grant system delays causing home improvements backlog
07 April 2022 | News
... for approval and completion in England and Wales (this does not include the time taken to secure an official needs ... and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) showed a postcode lottery of days to months for completing ...
Independent review of Northern Ireland PIP assessment process
28 June 2018 | News
... Walter Rader to undertake an independent review on how the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment is working in Northern Ireland. To ... main recommendations of the report are on pages 8 to 10. Disability Rights UK welfare rights adviser Ken Butler says: ...
Housing benefit
23 April 2025 | Resource
... landlord) The ‘bedroom tax’ Local housing allowance How much is housing benefit? Your applicable amount Personal ... Disabled students and housing benefit Discretionary housing payments Moving into work The habitual residence test Where ...
EHRC has failed families over benefit deaths say bereaved relatives
02 May 2022 | News
... on the DWP but was “nowhere near enough”. She said it showed the continuing issues around trusting both the DWP and ... 28 separate problems with the personal independence payment system that helped cause the death of Philippa Day ... them and other families over benefit deaths available from disabilitynewsservice.com. See also our related news story ...
ODI evaluation on Right to Control released
27 August 2013 | News
... funding streams failed to deliver any benefit, an Office of Disability Issues (ODI) evaluation has found. Right to ... and Work Choice - and exercise choice and control over how the combined budget was spent. It is being tested in ... are support mechanisms to help customers manage direct payments or the option to delegate this responsibility to a ...
Taxes and Benefits: The Parties Plans
28 April 2015 | News
... an increase in the point at which higher rate tax becomes payable A desire to impose a ‘mansion tax’ Large cuts in ... the Conservatives, Labour Party and Liberal Democrats in how they propose to do this. But they share a lack of ...
Legally Disabled? DRILL research project in Wales
14 June 2018 | News
... is that disabled people are both ambitious and talented, however, they need to be ‘seen’ and ‘expected’. It ... exist to gaining employment and career progression and how these may influence the choices people make within the ... long, programme across the four nations of the UK, run by Disability Wales, Disability Action Northern Ireland, ...
BuDS Getting Ready for Brexit guide
18 February 2019 | News
DR UK member, Buckinghamshire Disability Service (BuDS), has produced information on ... to see from Brexit BuDS is not a political charity and does not support Leaving the EU or Remaining in the EU. They ... whether we leave with an agreement or not. As a responsible disability charity, BuDS thinks it’s sensible for all ...
Wheelchair-user forced to climb stairs for driving test
05 October 2020 | News
... Head of Policy Fazilet Hadi said: “Clearly the DVSA does not make reasonable adjustments for disabled people who ... disabled people. There is no excuse, 25 years on from the Disability Discrimination Act, for staff acting on behalf of ...