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PIP guide and benefits factsheets updated
27 April 2021 | News
... to the coronavirus pandemic. Our Personal Independence Payment guide has been updated as of 21 April 2021. You can ... with universal credit, there is a page that explains how the benefit is worked out . This contains links to pages ...
Government To Be Taken To Court Over Work Capability Assessment Reforms
07 May 2024 | News
A Disability rights campaigner has been granted permission to ... “We will specify the circumstances, and physical and mental health conditions, for which LCWRA Substantial Risk should ...
DR UK response to the Summer Budget
07 July 2015 | News
Commenting on the budget, Liz Sayce, CEO of Disability Rights UK said: “We desperately needed a budget ... event is hard enough; a 30% drop in income makes it much, much, harder. In the meantime we are unclear whether ... allowance is replaced by the new personal independence payment, which has much stricter criteria.“ DR UK response ...
Closing Statement From COVID Inquiry Lawyers Representing Disabled People's Organisations
13 December 2023 | News
... Minister for Disability Benefits, notes of strategy groups showed actions on disability weren’t followed up and ... people. Despite the lack of diversity in the governmental room, and the fact that the pandemic ... us to stand together and demand that the next government does things differently.' You can view the full closing ...
Council urged to bring forward decision to end social care charging
20 March 2023 | News
... the council to develop a best practice guide on calculating disability-related expenditure (DRE) – the ... that should be taken into consideration when assessing how much someone can afford to pay in care charges – which ...
UK Violations of International Disability Treaty Slammed by DDPOs
29 August 2023 | News
... UN undertakes regular reviews of Government implementation, however, in 2016 Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) made a ... of people with learning disabilities still being placed in mental health units, and the urgent need for disability hate crime ...
DWP adopts our wording for DHP Guidance
09 April 2014 | News
... as an income resource when assessing DHP applications. Disability Rights UK responded last month to a DWP ... room, and provides evidence that this is the case but does not meet the HB criterion of being in receipt of the ... disregard DLA income when assessing DHP applications. However, the new guidance instead advises that: “… you ...
More than half of DLA claimants in receipt of the mobility component lose out on reassessment for PIP
27 May 2019 | News
... The following table below published by www.parliament.uk shows the number and proportion of DLA claimants who were in ... and Policty Adviser Ken Butler said: “While the DWP does publish some PIP statistics it does not publish ... disabled people's mobility awards - on their independence, health or employment - has never been researched by the DWP. ...
New Factsheet Launched: Pension Age Disability Payment
28 May 2025 | News
... a new factsheet with information on the Pension Age Disability Payment (PADP), which has been available throughout Scotland ... claiming the benefit. New Factsheet Launched: Pension Age Disability Payment ...
Changing attitudes to learning disability
23 July 2015 | News
Learning disability is when you don't understand things, but it doesn't make you stupid Our apprentice, Corrin McLelland, ... blog about her own experience of learning disability and how she copes with stressful situations. Corrin also talked ...