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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Scottish Social Security Bill passed
25 April 2018 | News
... Payments Carer's Allowance Attendance Allowance Disability Living Allowance Winter Fuel Payments Cold ... representative proportion of persons who have a physical or mental impairment, including those on: disability living ... an individual has expressed to them about where and how any assessment is carried out Carers The bill contains ...
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 ...
Strategic partners programme March 2013 update
27 March 2013 | News
... meeting and news and insights on a new programme ‘Health Partnerships’, volunteering, local Healthwatch ... to the absence of people’s voice and peer support. So how can we bring on a hands-on devolution of power to people ... Much of the detail of the law and funding proposals for ...
Nearly £3 billion to be awarded to private sector contractors to assess ESA, Universal Credit and PIP
21 November 2021 | News
... sufficient understanding of the claimant’s disability or health condition. There is nothing to indicate that this is ... That the assessment system is not fit for purpose is shown by 72% of PIP and 67% of ESA appeals being upheld . Not only does the assessment criteria for PIP and the work capability ...