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UK On Track For Lowest Ever Benefit Levels By 2030
10 October 2023 | News
... to the state through issues such as worsening physical and mental health. Evidence also shows how low benefits make it harder for people to find ... work, including childcare costs, make entering employment much harder. The IPPR analysis highlights that a ...
Tens of thousands of claimants with mental health problems at “real risk” of losing their benefits due to “managed migration” to universal credit
26 September 2022 | News
... More than 850,000 of these claimants are known to have a mental health problem. Many thousands more are struggling with ... provide advance notifications of the five-week wait for payment and information about the option of an advance ...
Our response to the Ministry of Justice Consultation on panel composition in tribunals
28 November 2016 | News
... Mind has also done a response , highlighting problems with mental health tribunals Disability Rights UK ( DR UK ) is a ... of success. DWP statistics for April 2015 to April 2016 show that as well as PIP appeals remaining continuously high ... someone on the panel who isn’t a doctor or a lawyer does make things easier for many claimants and they are more ...
State of Care for people with autism, learning difficulties and poor mental health 'worrying' says DRUK
14 October 2019 | News
Care provision for people with poor mental health, autism and learning disabilities is failing ... Bott says: "This is another worrying report from the CQC showing how services for disabled people, especially learning ...
‘Waking watch’ charges hit Disabled residents
17 August 2021 | News
... costs paid by leaseholders. In some buildings this is as much as £11,000 a month , so many blocks are lobbying for ... person lives in every block of flats around the country. Does this mean that waking watch is needed in every general ... flats to have personal emergency evacuation plans (PEEPs). However, we do not believe that imposing waking watch is the ...
Disability Rights UK submission to the Taylor Review
16 May 2017 | News
... – that is people living with any long-term physical or mental health condition or impairment, about 12 million ... the stated areas of interest of the Taylor Review, firstly how we can harness modern business practices to resolve the ... styles to support the differences between employees much more broadly. The cultures that disabled people want ...
Strategic partner updates November 2015 part 2
19 November 2015 | News
... commissioning. For any comments and/or ideas about how to strengthen ‘disabled people leading change’, ... impact on professionals and on what they are doing? How does this happen? Maybe your DPULO is already involved with ... post-diagnosis; comprehensive psychosocial approaches to mental health; preventing premature deaths; improving health ...
£20 week Universal Credit cut likely to lead to poorer mental health and wellbeing for thousands of families
12 September 2021 | News
The Health Foundation has warned that a planned £20 per week ... at the beginning of October, is likely to lead to poorer mental health and wellbeing for thousands of families. And ... areas of the country. Polling by the Health Foundation shows that there remains strong public support for making the ...
Legal help: where to go and how to pay
27 May 2015 | News
... to seek legal help and advice Legal help: where to go and how to pay Legal advice and help in employment matters Mediation ... other alternatives to court Legal help: where to go and how to pay ...
DWP launches call for evidence for fit note reform to combat supposed “sick note culture”
20 May 2024 | News
... of the fit note process to support those with long term health conditions to access timely work and health support: ... will assess your fitness for work by considering how your health condition affects what you can do at work ... in recent rhetoric which conjures up the image of a ‘mental health culture’ that has ‘gone too far’. ...