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Councils use of Capita leads to 7 per cent cut in care packages
22 September 2016 | News
... to cut costs and help fill a hole in its budget. Read the Disability News Service report The “pilot project” has ... People Against Cuts. Sue Bott, deputy chief executive of Disability Rights UK, said: “It seems extraordinary that ...
Half of PIP and ESA appeals successful
15 September 2015 | News
The appeal success rate for both PIP and ESA shows that the decision making process for both clearly ... This Parliamentary reply by Mike Penning last Friday shows that the success rate of both PIP and ESA appeals has ... appellants in England relating to (a) personal independence payments, (b) employment and support allowance, (c) income ...
New fee remission scheme from October
09 September 2013 | News
... on lower incomes who would otherwise have difficultly paying a fee to use court or tribunal services. A fee ... is a full or partial waiver of the fees that become payable when an individual uses these services. The ...
Read our response to MPs PIP and ESA Assessments inquiry
09 November 2017 | News
... the effectiveness of assessments for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). ...
You can now appeal your PIP decision online
15 November 2018 | News
... here , click on start now and type in personal independence payment. You can also download appeal forms for other ...
MPs say write off all bedroom tax arrears
20 March 2014 | News
... the bedroom tax in Scotland via Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) is flawed and inadequate. In its Ninth ... write off all the bedroom tax arrears, and refund all the payments that have been made so far as “the only fair and ...
Sign up for our Into Apprenticeships, Traineeships, and Supported Internships seminar
03 January 2018 | News
Disability Rights UK is pleased to invite you to attend our ... from National Apprenticeship Service, Access to Work, Disability Confident, local government, business ... Funding reforms, the Apprenticeship Levy and additional payments for employers and providers Advantages of being an ...
PIP assessment recordings to be allowed
22 February 2021 | News
... to record their assessments for Personal Independence Payments (PIP). Responding in a letter to the Right to ... that claimants have to go through.” Read more at Disability News Service. PIP assessment recordings to be ...
Our response to the PIP second independent review call for evidence
20 September 2016 | News
... the second independent review of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment. View our response View the ...
PIP fails those with progressive conditions
07 June 2016 | News
... progressive conditions. Muscular Dystrophy UK, new Focus on Disability Benefits report highlights the problems people ... financial hardship as a result of delays in receiving a disability benefit around 40 percent of respondents had an assessment for a disability benefit at a centre that was not accessible for ...