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Government must raise sick pay rate to living wage, urges disability charities and trade unions coalition
13 October 2022 | News
... that is better for workers, employers and Britain's public health.” In a joint open letter, dozens of disability charities and trade unions urge a major ... For instance, Mind found that two in three people with a mental health problem, who received Statutory Sick Pay, ...
UN Rapporteurs Question UK Government Over Benefits Deaths and Austerity - Press Release
19 March 2024 | News
... are facing. They consistently expressed that evidence shows violations of the UNCRDP, including a regression of ... take responsibility on their failure to deliver this, that doesn’t mean that it’s not unacceptable. The world is ... disabled people will only make things worse. There is still much work to do to hold the government to account and expose ...
DR UK says the PM must stop scapegoating Disabled people for a failing economy
19 April 2024 | News
... evidence will be published today to seek responses both on how the current process works and how it can better support ... Payments (PIP), particularly for those with poor mental health. Much of the PM’s speech highlighted the increase in ...
New research reveals care funding postcode lottery
22 April 2018 | News
... patients are treated in the same way wherever they live. However, research by Which? has found that despite a ... in the same circumstances 10 miles down the road in Salford doesn’t have to pay anything. There is an assumption ... ‘system’ for the first time that they realise just how much they have to pay. At DRUK we think health and social ...
04 Strategic partner updates May 2015
11 May 2015 | News
... commissioning. For any comments and/or ideas about how to strengthen ‘disabled people leading change’, ... impact on professionals and on what they are doing? How does this happen? Maybe your DPULO is already involved with ... and may be interested in these discussions we very much look forward to hearing from you. Please get in touch ...
Government ends disabled students Universal Credit entitlement without knowing how many affected
06 August 2017 | News
... their student finance with ESA to pay for their extra disability related costs and attend colleges and universities away from their home. However, this ability is denied to them under Universal Credit, as unlike ESA, as it does not automatically treat them as having a “limited ...
Disabled People Are Not A Scapegoat For Governmental Failures
26 September 2024 | News
... the view that we should feel guilty for being physically or mentally unable to work. Not the best start from a party ... in their vitriol, comment pieces like last years “Exactly how much of your salary goes towards Britain’s growing welfare ...
Profound lack of trust in the benefit health assessment system still a constant theme, say MPs
18 April 2023 | News
... spoke of the stress, anxiety and in some cases severe mental health impacts of the assessment process.” They ... when Internal Process Reviews are carried out, and how it has improved its collection of data on deaths and ... and sending claimants their reports. “All this will give much-needed transparency to a process that so few trust yet ...
Our submission to the Work and Welfare Reform Bill scrutiny committee
22 October 2015 | News
... i.e. they have not been found fit for work. So why does the E.I.A. suggest that the removal of the Work Related ... qualify for the individual element. (iii) The changes will, however, ensure that any disabled or severely disabled child ... than other families and that it costs three times as much to raise a disabled child . 3.2.4 Clause 11 (and Clause ...
NAO says health and disability assessments costing more and still backlogs
07 January 2016 | News
The latest National Audit Office report on Contracted-out health and disability assessments raises questions on the ... ESA claims 23 weeks compared to 29 weeks. There is still, however, a backlog of at least 280,000 ESA assessments at ... training, during the contract tender process. The DWP does not yet have a clear strategy for contracting-out ...