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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 ...
Alzheimer’s Society comments on the impact of cuts to social care
06 October 2015 | News
... care declined in England according to data published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSSCIC) View Alzheimer’s Society press release The findings show, of the 1.85 million new requests for adult social care ... The recent decision to delay implementation of a cap on how much people pay for care means that this financial burden ...
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 ...
DR UK and our members respond to Commons defeat of Lords amendments
23 February 2016 | News
... which will have a damaging impact on their physical and mental health. Disability Rights UK members and supporters and ... of people with a learning disability are in employment; however the Government are still yet to provide any robust ...
Learning disability and debt
12 April 2018 | News
In this guest blog post, Jason Jaspal from Disability Rights UK discusses the challenges that people ... may find it hard to get advice because they don’t know how or where to look for help. They may have difficulties ... disabled customers, they are at risk of legal action. The Mental Capacity Act (2005) Advisers also need to be aware of ...
Benefit levels now driving the increase in foodbank use
25 April 2018 | News
... benefit’ have also grown significantly. Its new data shows that Universal Credit (UC) is now a significant factor ... more likely – disabled people and people with long-term health conditions and families with children are ... said it did. Only 5% of respondents who stated they had a mental health condition, physical health condition, or were ...
Claimants with severe disability premium awards no longer exempt from the requirement to claim Universal Credit
14 January 2021 | News
New regulations have been issued that will end the severe disability premium (SDP) barrier “gateway” to Universal ... tested “legacy benefits” – ESA, JSA, and IS - UC does not include either the severe disability premium (SDP) ... and ongoing transitional payments as recompense . However, from October 2020 these transitional payments were ...
MPs call for radical overhaul of DWP’s approach to employment support
01 August 2021 | News
... for increasing the number of Disabled people in work. However, it finds that it has largely got there because ... employment support, with its main programme, the Work and Health Programme (WHP) currently commissioned at a national ... approach. Support for finding and staying in a job that is much more personalised, flexible and effective should be ...
Scottish Parliament Bedroom Tax statement
07 May 2014 | News
Bedroom Tax and Discretionary Housing Payments On 7 May 2014 the Scottish Parliament heard the ... 25 April. That agreement allows us to target the funding as much as possible according to need. I am happy to confirm ... funding up to the limit of the Westminster-imposed cap on how much each council is allowed to spend on discretionary ...
Labour Force Survey analysis: disabled people
23 February 2015 | News
... Force Survey analysis of disabled people by region and main health problem covering Oct to Dec 2013 and Oct to Dec 2014 ... for those with disabilities or long term health conditions show a slight improvement in employment rates. Those with ... However the rates of employment for those with mental health problems and those with learning disabilities ...