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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 ...
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 ...
Govt accepts most of SSAC managed migration recommendations
06 November 2018 | News
... problem it is trying to solve? is it fair – for example, does it impose disproportionate burdens on particular groups ... which have to be met before the main migration begins.” However, he added that: “We are disappointed that the DWP ... and Support Allowance. Many with, for instance, serious health conditions or learning difficulties will struggle to ...
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 ...
Ofcom Easy Read mobile phone guide
22 December 2013 | News
... guide offers advice to people with learning difficulties on how to get the most out of their mobile phone and on how much it could cost. It gives useful information on: the ... available; the costs of mobile phone calls and ways to pay; free services available for disabled customers; and how ...
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 ...
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 ...
Minister for Disabled people confirms there are no plans to means test DLA or PIP
29 November 2022 | News
... a “categorical assurance” that the means testing of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Personal Independence ... part of the Chancellor’s 17 November Autumn Statement. However, on 14 November, Marsha De Cordova, Labour’s ... of Work and Pensions, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work Tom Pursglove said: “We have no plans to ...
New research on inappropriate housing for disabled people
29 August 2019 | News
... housing causing disabled people ‘physical and mental harm’ New research from the University of ... Scotland and Horizon Housing Association has highlighted how difficult it is for many disabled people to find housing ... to them, and the impact on their mental and physical health caused by inappropriate housing. The research was ...
Cross-Party Motion Against Benefit Cuts: Write To Your MP!
28 May 2025 | News
... communities to breaking point, with people in receipt of health-related benefits already facing inordinate hardships ... capability for work are unable to heat their homes or pay their bills and have low food security; is further ... poor quality jobs, huge wage inequality and a soaring mental health crisis; and further calls on the Government ...