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DWP’s PIP assessment “torture” helped cause my son’s suicide, says disabled Mum
05 July 2021 | News
... infected ulcers on his arms, chest and back. With his mental health continuing to deteriorate, he agreed to be ... old. His disabled mother Helen wrote to the DWP saying: “How many more lives have to end before this government stops ... treating people as human beings so that this kind of thing doesn’t happen to other families in the future.” Source ...
High Court: council tax reduction scheme does not discriminate on disability grounds
11 November 2015 | News
... and support allowance and disability living allowance. His health conditions were unlikely to improve for him to be ... proceedings challenging Havering’s 2015/2016 scheme. However, the High Court rejects that the scheme ... to Havering’s discretionary scheme, the High Court does say that - “… where a severely disabled claimant ...
Green Paper published – £5 billion cuts proposed by scrapping the WCA and changed PIP assessment
18 March 2025 | News
... back into work, while those who cannot remain protected. However, the resulting £5 billion “savings” will be the ... improvement. We will then develop and implement a new departmental wide approach to safeguarding. “We will publish ... [in Autumn 2025] to provide clarity on what the department does. It will outline what improvements we will make, what ...
DWP confirms issue date of £150 Disability Cost of Living payment
22 May 2023 | News
... food and medicine. To keep our homes warm, power essential health and mobility equipment, and meet the spiralling cost ... wants to support those who need it most, yet this payment does not come anywhere near achieving that. The ... saw thousands of Disabled people lose out. “There is so much that can be done to draw Disabled people out of poverty ...
Disability Rights UK's response to WCA Consultation
10 November 2023 | News
... to work related activity element not only means the person does not have to fulfil job preparation requirements, it ... It is also disappointing there is no clear indication of how many people will be affected. This is crucial ... cohort. ONS data shows that home or hybrid working is much more prevalent among highly educated highly paid senior ...
Disability Poverty Campaign Group respond to the PM Rishi Sunak
19 April 2024 | News
... again to demonise Disabled people and those with long-term health conditions, by announcing plans to make them seek ... at the cost of their already fragile physical and mental health. In his speech today the prime minister ... after suggestions that it has destroyed reports showing why it weakened guidance on when to investigate ...
Report reveals families raising disabled children are struggling to survive
14 October 2022 | News
A new report by the Family Fund shows that UK families raising disabled, or seriously ill, ... heating as our heating bill has more than doubled. If Toby doesn’t keep warm his joints dislocate and his pain levels ... of debt and feeling more isolated than ever, with worsening mental and physical health. T hese are families on the ...
Press complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation by Disability Rights UK
06 June 2023 | News
... to the Daily Telegraph's appalling story on “Exactly how much of your salary bankrolls the welfare state” ... by the additional costs associated with disability and ill-health, and partly by the barriers to work disabled people ...
The number of new PIP claimants has doubled in a year
06 December 2022 | News
... little changed for years. By July 2022, the latest data, shows it had doubled to 30,000 per month, with no sign of ... a similar amount. Around a third of the new claims are for mental or behavioural conditions, although among claimants ... people waiting for their claim to be assessed . So far this does not appear to have affected waiting times, though they ...
Jobcentres 20% Understaffed, Leading To Overwork and An Epidemic Of Poor Mental Health Among Staff
19 January 2024 | News
... dossier of evidence at the end of last year, detailing how the DWP is a failing organisation in a “state of ... years and this was the worst it has gotten. It worsened my mental health to the point of severe burnout, with constant ...