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DLA, PIP and AA now devolved to Scotland
28 March 2016 | News
... Benefits devolved to the Scottish Parliament include Disability Living Allowance, Carer’s Allowance, Attendance ... the Scottish Government will have new powers to determine: how claimants are paid and how much some claimants get for housing support; how often to ...
Court of Appeal dismisses challenge to rules excluding disabled students from universal credit
16 December 2022 | News
... living components of personal independence payment (PIP). However, he is now having to use that money to meet his ... if they are in receipt of personal independence payment or disability living allowance and have been assessed or ... are not able to supplement their income with UC. “UC does not duplicate student finance as the DWP seeks to ...
Reinstate the Access to Elected Office Fund!
25 November 2023 | News
... adjustments for Disabled candidates of elected officer. However, despite evidence that such a Fund is necessary, the ... has so far failed to re-establish it. The Government’s Disability Action Plan consultation proposes that a Fund be ... would have 130 disabled MPs, or MPs with long-term health conditions. Women also remain underrepresented in ...
Switching Focus: Whose responsibility to improve disabled peoples employment and pay
28 November 2018 | News
... employers to improve disabled people’s employment and pay. It also considers how proposals could be framed and pursued, to enable people ... responsibility to improve disabled peoples employment and pay ...
DWP information given to Universal Credit claimants is in some cases unlawful
01 May 2019 | News
... to claimants about their universal credit payment and how to challenge a decision is in some instances unlawful. ... subject to the deadline are notified of it. A person who does not know that there is a time limit (or wrongly thinks ... which she was exempt because she receives a qualifying disability benefit).” CPAG's new report Computer says no - ...
MPs join activists and families in call for public inquiry into years of DWP deaths
17 December 2024 | News
... Work and Pensions (DWP). Disability News Service (DNS) has shown how the department spent more than a decade covering up ... and grieving relatives, and even lied to a coroner. Much of the evidence is included in the book The Department ... (WCA) . Among that evidence is research by public health experts from the universities of Liverpool and ...
Food bank use increases by thirteen per cent
06 November 2018 | News
... bank users are disabled people or those with a long-term health condition. The initiatives by Trussell Trust shows that society is reaching out to them but they must ... Credit announced in the recent Budget it highlights that much of the support will not come into force until July ...
One Third of Disabled People are Struggling Financially
14 September 2023 | News
... with the University of Bristol contain a forward from the Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) which is led by DR ... their financial situation is making their physical and mental health worse.” “This report comes out just after the UN ...
Capita in U-turn over contesting compensation payment ordered after PIP claimant’s tragic death
08 August 2019 | News
... tragically died months after her personal independence payments were stopped following a Capita assessment. Capita ... dispute this at Telford County Court. Capita, who conduct health assessments for PIP on behalf of the DWP, initially ... after a court awarded to Victoria Smith’s family. However, Capita has now decided not to contest the judgement ...
How Universal Credit is failing people in vulnerable situations: new Z2K report evidences need for urgent reforms
02 December 2020 | News
... it stands. The new report demonstrates, with the removal of disability premiums in UC, many people pushed onto UC from ... is not just the inadequate financial support that is detrimental, but also the design of the system itself, which ... situations. Pointing to the DWP’s own research that shows that UC is not working for one in five people , the Z2K ...