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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 ...
DR UK’s Template Submission To The PIP Green Paper Consultation
09 July 2024 | News
... extensive and personal independence payment (PIP) reform. However, it was clear that the proposals were predicated on ... the PIP consultation. We would hope and ask that it does so. However, given that this is uncertain, DR UK ... The Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability Green Paper is available from gov.uk. ...
Minister confirms testing of an new severe disability group for health and disability benefit receipt
12 September 2023 | News
... new initiatives to make it easier to apply for and receive health and disability benefits.” This includes he said, ... “employment and health discussions”, with a “focus on how we can help people overcome barriers to work”. a ... net criteria of “substantial risk” to physical or mental health if found not to have a LCWRA. Inevitably this ...
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 ...
Strategic partner updates for October 2013
25 November 2013 | News
... on Disability Rights UK’s events and workplan, and on how this will support local user-led membership ... will be extended to all NHS services in England, including mental health services, community nursing, and outpatient ... Rights UK with its workplan as a strategic partner and how does this help our members and networks? If a thing or two ...
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 ...
Strategic partner updates for July 2013
25 July 2013 | News
... patients and their families and friends should have a much greater role in social care and the NHS. If you would ... the new system offers to individual disabled people and how they can have our voices heard. A forthcoming report by ... the Francis Inquiry Report) and parity of esteem for mental and physical health. More generally speaking, t he ...
Government action needed to end the institutionalisation of Disabled people
21 June 2024 | News
... people with a learning disability living as inpatients in mental health ATUs have been missed. The latest target was ... in 2015 by March 2024 at the latest. Published figures show that the reduction made is only around 30%, with 2,045 ... of £237,000 a year. In 2019, VODG research indicated that much of the market for this type of provision was controlled ...
Many thousands of women owed compensation following DWP failure to communicate changes to State Pension age
25 March 2024 | News
A comprehensive investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSBO) has found that thousands of ... between 2024 and 2026, to 67 by 2036, and to 68 by 2046). However, the Pensions Act 2011 accelerated this timetable ... out the eligibility criteria for the new State Pension. How much new State Pension someone can claim is based on their ...