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DR UK works with BBC Newsnight to challenge carers benefit debt
16 May 2024 | News
... receipt of carers allowance have had demands to pay back as much as £20,000 in overpayments after unknowingly breaching ... sick family members. The current rate is £81.90 per week, however if your earnings are one penny over £151 per week, ... with many carers falling further into debt, suffering ill health , losing their savings and inheritances , and in ...
Cornwall to end its maximum weekly care charge?
20 August 2013 | News
... and including disability related benefits when assessing how much individuals can afford to pay. The proposed disability ... to speak to local groups Cornwall Council's Adult Care, Health and Wellbeing consultation document is available to ...
DR UK CEO Kamran Malick's Global Summit Speech
23 July 2018 | News
... their own rights. We know from experience that such change does not come from spontaneous innovation by governments. ... many disabled people (25 years to implement some changes). However it recognised for the first time that we as disabled ... race, gender or sexuality. As Sophie has indicated there is much still to do. Where should our focus be? Finding ...
CQC to conduct 12 local system reviews of health and social care
04 July 2017 | News
CQC has been asked by the Secretaries of State for Health and for Communities and Local Government to undertake ... The Care Quality Commission (CQC) will look specifically at how people move between health and social care, including ... on people over 65 years old. The review will not include mental health services or specialist commissioning but, ...
Government announce Minimum Income Guarantee rise
14 February 2023 | News
... contribution to their social care costs. To assess how much should be paid towards any care, local authorities ... in MIG is welcome, Disability groups are asking for a fundamental r eview of MIG, to ensure that the level leaves ...
How personal are personal budgets in 2017?
19 September 2017 | News
... survey echoes many of the same issues people with direct payments report to Disability Rights UK on our helpline . Lack of social care funding and ignorance about how personalisation should work is resulting in choice and ...
PIP independent review published
16 December 2014 | News
... it mildly given that today’s published PIP statistics show a backlog of 240,800 claims (40%) awaiting clearance. ... to the effectiveness of the assessment for people with a mental health condition or learning disability. The responses to ...
ULEZ changes for Disabled drivers announced
22 August 2023 | News
... the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and for TFL as part of the Disability Unit, focusing on ULEZ and its implications for ... 24 October 2027. This is valid as long as their vehicle doesn't change tax class. Dr Kanodia said: ‘I am grateful ... for ULEZ. It is great news for the disabled community and shows campaigns from disabled people can have a significant ...
Lobby to prevent more benefit deaths
28 January 2019 | News
... to prevent further deaths caused by the government’s much-criticised fitness for work test. Find out more The ... is always collected, particularly for claimants with mental health conditions. Although the lobby has been organised by ...
‘Urgent Social Security Reform Needed’ DR UK Letter to New Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
23 July 2024 | News
... living costs and the extra costs associated with having a health condition or disability. The Committee urged the development of a framework of principles to inform how benefit levels are set, and to outline objectives linked ... that by 2028/29, 424,000 people with serious mobility or mental health problems would be denied both extra Universal ...