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Upper Tribunal rules DWP wrong to deny appeals over refused benefits
02 October 2017 | News
... Child Poverty Action Group and two claimants with serious mental health problems who were refused ESA and then failed ... impracticable for you to seek a revision within one month. However, the DWP has always maintained that if it refuses a ... that decision. In contrast, “an appeal to the FTT is much more user friendly and useful to a claimant because of ...
WCA damages health say 95 per cent
03 July 2014 | News
... 73% of the respondents had physical impairments and 70% had mental health problems. The questionnaire asked people who were sick or disabled to assess the assessors - to describe how they were treated in the assessment process and what ...
Support the Trekkers Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for Disability Rights UK!
07 September 2023 | News
... expedition. Read on to hear their thoughts and find out how to donate to their fundraiser! 1. First of all, we'd ... at the beginning of the year, focusing on our physical health and fitness through gym training and healthy eating habits. Jurate: Pretty much the same as Diana and Mantas. I am a keen CrossFitter. ...
DWP incapable of delivering a pathway from poverty for ill and disabled people
20 January 2019 | News
... from Mind. He has worked on social policy related to mental health for the last ten years, with a particular focus on ... and programmes yielding disappointing outcomes, because of how they will be formulated and how they will be ...
Disabled people far more likely to die by suicide than non-disabled people
07 March 2023 | News
Disabled people are much more likely to die by suicide than non-Disabled people ... for non-disabled women. Fazilet Hadi, Head of Policy at Disability Rights UK said: “The disproportionately high ... reducing incomes and rising costs. We face inadequate health and social care services, punitive benefit processes, ...
Government put Disabled people at risk in COVID vaccination process
20 January 2025 | News
... as of November 2023, or living restricted lives, with poor mental health” Mr Malick stated that the plight of many ... consult with DPO on the vaccine roll out. Had they done so, much of the jeopardy for disabled people in the UK would ...
History of The Disability Rights Handbook To Celebrate 50 Editions!
18 July 2024 | News
... difficult to get any information from the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS). Leaflets promoting ... in nature, including one on sex and disability. The focus, however, was on the state benefits available to Disabled ... is very different from that of Sally Robertson. There is so much more case-law now, but it is available at the touch of ...
Govt response to WCA fourth review
26 March 2014 | News
... the impact of earlier independent reviews; the way that mental health conditions are considered in the WCA; and the ... work on feasibility . DWP is currently investigating how information from the WCA might be shared with Work ... distress is appropriately recognised when the WCA process does not work as intended. 13.The ESA50 and all letters and ...
EHRC to investigate DWP’s safeguarding failures leading to benefit-related deaths
21 June 2024 | News
... for disabled people with learning disabilities or long-term mental health conditions during health assessment determinations. ... investigation of the DWP is welcome if long overdue. “However, it is very concerning that the EHRC will focus only ...
Evidence Based Review of WCA
11 December 2013 | News
... to improve the assessment of fluctuation in physical and mental health conditions, and the effects of cognitive ... assessment (AA) proposals. The research questions were: How did the two different assessments work when applied to ... have limited capability for work, the outcome of the AA was much more likely to correspond with this view than was the ...