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Applying for Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA)
06 March 2025 | Resource
... Care and daily living needs General support Travel costs How much DSA can I get? How do I apply? Where to apply How to ... in the UK. Is DSA means tested? No. Eligibility for DSA does not depend on your income or the income of your family. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
Support into work from school failing most young people
07 April 2016 | News
... or with special educational needs or disability (SEND). However, they said, there is little focus on other groups including care leavers or those with mental health conditions. The support offered is towards a ... employment outcome, rather than a career. This narrow focus does not raise aspirations, and so limits social ...
Five week Universal credit wait having a devastating impact on disabled people
18 June 2019 | News
Disabled people face unavoidable costs as a result of their disability and cannot afford to lose substantial sums each ... of people to food banks (35%) and a worsening of people’s health, in particular their mental health (85%) and again, most worryingly driving ...