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DWP axes commitment to review 1.6 million PIP claims to see if extra benefit legally payable
12 February 2020 | News
... to the House of Commons, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work Justin Tomlinson has announced that around ... distress' and carrying out activities 'safely'. However, instead of reviewing all 1.6 million PIP claimants ... committed to ensuring everyone with a health condition or disability gets the support they are entitled to. This is ...
MPs tell Government to review the use and impacts of benefit sanctions
20 February 2017 | News
... In Disability Rights UK’s response to the DWP, Health and Disability Green Paper “Improving Lives” we ... towards protecting vulnerable ESA claimants (people with mental health conditions, learning difficulties, conditions ... approaches work best, and why, and what is not working. It does not know whether vulnerable people are protected as ...
PIP: The reasonable wishes of a claimant to walk further or more frequently must be considered
14 May 2017 | News
... should not be based on a supposed “objective test” of how far a disabled person or how often they need to “move ... and why should she not? He adds that: “... a tribunal does not need to accept the genuineness of an extreme ... should have seen this as going beyond engagement with health professionals and family members, taking into account ...
DR UK contributes to EDF human rights report
15 September 2020 | News
... Stricter criteria have particularly affected people with mental health issues or chronic illnesses. 74% of applicants who ... most recent data available), and many claimants do not know how to appeal. Social care Cuts to local government funding ...
Government announces schedule of “cost of living payments”
25 January 2023 | News
... for Work and Pensions (DWP) has given more detail on the payment schedule for the next round of Government “cost of ... made to those who qualified and have now all been paid. However, those who believe they should have got an award but ... disabled people who receive personal independence payment, disability living allowance or attendance allowance. In ...
MPs find claimants mainly satisfied with PIP and ESA assessments but there are problems
08 February 2018 | News
... PIP and ESA assessments Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) ... this concern any assessment it has made of its prevalence how it is monitored what measures are in place to prevent ... response from the Government.” See also the following Disability News Service articles: The PIP Files: DWP ...
DWP Ordered To Release Information About Decision to Scrap WCA
14 November 2023 | News
... who receives any rate of PIP will receive an extra “health element” , included in their UC. Medically ... only from 2026/2027 and 2029 for existing claimants. However, on 8 September, the Government launched a ... that applies if there would be a substantial risk to the mental or physical health of you or anyone else if you were ...
Govt concerns over PIP loan scheme to fund assistive technology inquiry
18 September 2018 | News
... business strategy , Disability Rights UK recognised how key the development and use of assistive technology is ... to see the UK become a “world leader in assistive and healthcare technology – building on the strong positioning ... the scheme but would have to ensure that whoever company does so works in line with the principles of providing a ...
EHRC publishes business plan
04 April 2016 | News
... Promoting the right to equality of access to appropriate health and social care services and dignity of care. ... media reporting. Commissioning an assessment to determine how changes to the welfare system have affected equality of ... the decision to remove the spare room subsidy (bedroom tax) does not comply with equality and human rights law in the ...
Health and Disability Green Paper published: Shaping Future Support
20 July 2021 | News
The DWP has published its long promised Health and Disability Green Paper titled Shaping Future Support. The ... for Disabled people and people with health conditions, and how to encourage people to take up that support, where ...