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What counts as disability
07 October 2022 | Resource
... in use in the UK. These are all the current definitions and how they are used. Disability and education Physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term ... to maintain a register of adults with other disabilities or health conditions, which the authority considers may, in the ...
DWP pilot making managed payments to social landlords at same time as tenant receives their UC payment
19 December 2019 | News
... landlords that changes to the Universal Credit (UC) rental payment system will be rolled out next year. In a letter ... a small group of Social Landlords to align the way that we pay Managed Payments to Landlords with a claimant's ... welcome, it should be extended to private sector landlords. However, UC itself needs wider reform in order to make any ...
Benefit loss not eased by working or moving
11 August 2013 | News
... (CESI) for the Local Government Association (LGA) shows that less than a quarter of those on benefits will be ... from their council, such as Discretionary Housing Payments, to help them cope with the reduction in welfare. ... new homes by relaxing the rules which severely limit how much councils can borrow against their existing housing ...
Fall in Number of Bus Drivers Given Disability Training
07 June 2023 | News
... responses from more than 40 regions across Great Britain, showed more operators were offering audio-visual ... of people who are older or have a disability, illness or mental health issue will continue to grow. Anything done to improve ...
Ombudsman upholding two-thirds of adult social care complaints
19 November 2017 | News
... sorting out the day-to-day stuff but what you learn and how you use that as tool for improvement”. Sue Bott from Disability Rights UK said: "I feel completely frustrated by ... is clear it is almost entirely about older people and how much they should pay. How else do you explain the list of ...
More than £1 million for 10 new research projects led by disabled people
17 January 2018 | News
... and £150,000 of National Lottery funding each, to explore how disabled people can live as full citizens in our society ... will be led by disabled people or people with long term health conditions; they will be developing approaches and ... as people living with dementia, learning disabilities and mental health issues. The English projects are: ALLFIE (The ...
Labour's Betrayal of Those in Greatest Need
09 April 2025 | News
... since 2009, which exposed the government-induced public health crisis impacting on those in greatest need with ... to the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) long-term disability benefit, which is directly linked to the ... rising numbers of people claiming disability benefit for a mental health problem, whilst continuing to disregard the ...
New Discretionary Housing Payments guidance
12 August 2015 | News
The DWP has issued a new Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) guidance manual View manual Following the ... we made submissions that this guidance should advise that Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Personal Independence ... requires further financial assistance, you can decide how to treat any expenditure, offsetting it against income ...
UK's Chief Medical Officers publish the first-ever guidelines on physical activity for disabled children and young people
16 February 2022 | News
... children and young people to improve their physical and mental health throughout their lives. Brett Smith, Director of ... active in ways that work for them, and these guidelines show how important this is. The evidence-based infographic is ...
Covid-19 pandemic shows our benefits system unfit for purpose, says TUC
10 August 2020 | News
... our social security system fit for purpose requires fundamental changes, including scrapping universal credit. The immediate priority, however, is for the government to devise an urgent plan to ... be removed to ensure everyone can access it, no matter how much they earn. Ken Butler DR UK’s Welfare Rights and ...