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Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
23 April 2025 | Resource
... Revised and updated: 22nd April 2025 Contents Does your child qualify for DLA? DLA Disability test: the ... periods condition DLA residence and presence tests How much is DLA? How to claim DLA Keeping a diary Making use ...
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 ...
PIP Reform Green Paper’s Clear Agenda Is Reducing Financial Support To Disabled People Says DR UK
30 April 2024 | News
... not just the social security system but also health services, social care, education, housing and ... improved support of other kinds, such as physical or mental health treatment. PIP assessment reform The Green ... used in functional assessments may not always fully reflect how a disability or health condition impacts on daily ...
‘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 ...
£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 ...
Severe mental health problems lead to poor physical health and early death
27 September 2018 | News
Public Health England report: Severe mental illness (SMI) and ... inequalities: briefing A new Public Health England report shows people with severe mental illness (SMI) suffer worse ...
DWP should immediately stop benefit sanctions imposed on disabled people or those with a health condition say MPs
06 November 2018 | News
... their benefit. The MPs say that: “Until Government can show unequivocally that sanctions actually help to move these ... on people with a disability or health condition. It does not work. Worse, it is harmful and counterproductive. ... not restricted to, those with expertise in homelessness and mental health. sanctions must be a last resort and claimants ...
Increase Benefits And Scrap WCA Proposals - DR UK Writes To Chancellor Ahead Of His Autumn Statement
17 November 2023 | News
... to remove the WCA’ s “substantial risk to physical or mental health” provision is deeply concerning and ... commissioned by the DWP to establish what works and what does not, regarding how successful various employment support schemes are in ...
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 test new conditionality policy focussing on a what a Disabled claimant “can do, not what they can’t”
31 October 2021 | News
... of their health condition. But she then adds that: “However, she The Tailoring Up approach does not remove the option to apply mandatory ... people waiting for a work capability assessment; and by how much has the number of people subject to mandatory ...