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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...