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Number Of People Out Of Work Due To Ill Health Growing By 300,000 A Year
03 October 2024 | News
Over the past decade, the health of the UK’s working-age population has ... in the number of working-age Disabled people, which affects how they do their job, these workers are three times more ... in their jobs due to health conditions? What impact does this have on individuals, businesses and society as a ...
How Membership Organisations Benefit from Self Service Portals
04 April 2022 | News
... and sizes for many years we’ve learnt a huge amount about how a new CRM can dramatically increase efficiency. The ... is a surefire way to boost engagement and make them know how valued they are. Self service empowers your team One of ... increasingly more complex. Self service portals can offer much needed relief to this problem by eliminating very basic ...
Chancellor Must Not Proceed With WCA Cuts Says DR UK
30 October 2024 | News
... We will deliver those savings as part of our fundamental reforms to the health and disability benefits system ... and people aged over 50.” It is difficult to see how exactly the same WCA reform “savings” projected by ... commissioned by the DWP to establish what works and what does not, regarding how successful various employment ...
DR UK urges you to complete PIP replacement consultation launched by group with lived experience of the social security system
12 February 2025 | News
... System, with a detailed proposal for an Additional Costs Disability Payment. The Commission on Social Security are a ... in the social security system and what works, and what doesn’t”. After a project hiatus 2023-24, the Commission ... Paper aimed a making £3 billion of cuts to disability and health benefits expenditure. As the Commission says, the ...
WOW petition motion passed
26 February 2014 | News
... people with learning difficulties, provision of universal mental health treatments, closures of Remploy factories, the ... but questions remain as to what this means in reality. "However, there now arises the question of what the ... National Institute of Blind People in my constituency, who does such sterling work raising issues for the blind and ...
Ministers and councils urged to dump ‘disability tax’
11 November 2018 | News
... stress and the need to cut back on other living essentials show that it is. The group’s chair, Baroness Jane Campbell, ... further by the block that charging poses on integration of health and social care – the holy grail for efficiency in ... they had been assessed as needing once they learnt how much they would have to pay. The local authority responses ...
Disabled people’s experiences of the benefits system: Committee publishes withheld Government-commissioned research
09 February 2022 | News
... refused to make public. The report - The Uses of Health and Disability Benefits - was received by the DWP in ... of their essential day-to-day living costs would be met. However, some of this group reported that they were still ... believed better access to health services, particularly mental health services, would improve their quality of life ...
Social care cuts to continue despite £2 billion boost
27 June 2017 | News
... care needs of younger adults with disabilities or mental health problems are greater than those due to ... being applied particularly to services for older people. However, the financial effect is now less than it is for the ... are determined to protect adult social services budgets as much as possible, which is reflected in their planned ...
How bare bones benefits don’t add up
20 March 2022 | News
... DR UK’s Media and Communications Manager Anna Morell does the sums on bare bones disability benefits, in case anyone is listening. You can read her blog at the DR UK blogspot here . How bare bones benefits don’t add up ...
Labour will guarantee Disabled people moving into work a return to benefits without the need for reassessment
11 January 2023 | News
... considering trying to engage in possible employment too much of a risk. As a result he said Labour “will reform ... be arduous, lengthy and stressful. “Many people with ill health simply do not want to risk having to go through the ... assessment system is increasing poverty and worsening mental health’ Labour will guarantee Disabled people ...