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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 ...
Know Your Normal: The experiences of young autistic people
06 June 2018 | News
... Know Your Normal (#knowyournormal) is a new report on mental health in autism. The aim of the research was to find out ... (16-25 years) across England and to make recommendations on how best to meet their needs. Around 70-80% of children and ...
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 ...
LibDems publish pre-manifesto
09 September 2014 | News
... help people get back into employment. ensuring people with mental and physical health conditions get the right support to get back to work ... of a public sector provider. ensuring that assessments for Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence ...
Disability Groups Call for More Accessible Housing for Private Renters
29 January 2024 | News
... housing, the most affordable and secure form of tenure. However, the shortage of social housing has meant that ... likely to experience a deterioration in their physical and mental health, are more likely to be admitted to hospital as a ...
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 ...
New Work Choice evaluation report
03 July 2013 | News
... support, including those with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. Findings of the report include: Overall, ... participants considered unlikely to achieve employment. DWP does appear to have considered some of these factors within ...
Get Set To Go Campaign
13 July 2015 | News
People with mental health problems put off of sport because they are not ‘gym ... body ready’ New research, released today by Mind [1] , shows that four fifths (80 per cent) of people with mental ...
DR UK responds to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Review
26 July 2022 | News
... and exclusions in school. The government did not recognise how much of their "unprecedented investment" has been spent ...
Government to trial offer of additional Work Coach support for claimants awaiting their work capability assessment
07 June 2022 | News
... for addressing some “short-to-medium-term issues in health and disability benefits”. The Green Paper also ... as evidence that someone is currently not able to work. However, support with no strings attached could be offered ... to those who feel it may be helpful. And, if a person does manage to get back into work, there should be no ...