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Disabled UC claimants underpaid by over £350 per month due to DWP failure to start WCA process
04 October 2022 | News
... month work capability amount . If a UC claimant reports a health condition that may affect their ability to work via a ... credit capability for work questionnaire (UC50). However, NAWRA has been working with the Strategic Public ... prevent serious illness or even death. “We would very much like to meet with you, and your officials, to discuss ...
Terminally ill people in ‘vicious cycle’ of fuel poverty
26 November 2020 | News
... of fuel poverty on terminally ill people. The report shows that terminally ill people may experience a vicious cycle of fuel poverty. Their deteriorating health means they have to spend a lot more to heat their ... existing symptoms flare up or become worse, affecting their mental wellbeing and, in the worst cases, even hastening ...
Proposed Social Care Cap: Comparison with existing system
23 May 2017 | News
... is intended for information only and is not intended as a Disability Rights UK opinion on the merits or otherwise of ... limit of £100,000, including the cost of - no matter how large the cost of care turns out to be An “absolute ... how income is to be treated under a new means test system Does the term ‘care costs’ include daily living (hotel ...
Universal Credit rollout inquiry
17 September 2017 | News
... service in areas where it has replaced the live service? How long are people waiting for their Universal Credit claim ... why, and what impact is this having on them? Is the advance payment system appropriate and is there adequate awareness ... and claimants, and how could the situation be improved? Does Universal Credit provide people in emergency temporary ...
Resolution Foundation find 44% income gap for Disabled people
04 January 2023 | News
... (over 2,000 of whom reported a long-term illness or disability) to compare how the UK’s disabled and non-disabled working-age ... even to eat one meal a day or to charge essential health and mobility equipment. There must be a long-term ...
Being Active Guide
05 January 2015 | News
Being Active: A guide for people with impairments or health conditions This guide supports more disabled people ... information, so they have control over where, what and how they can start being active. Research shows that most ... or physical activity. This guide is fantastic because it doesn’t supply endless pages of links, opportunities or ...
People who are currently shielding can no longer get SSP on that basis from 1 August 2020
30 June 2020 | News
... outbreak will not be eligible for statutory sick pay (SSP) on that basis from 1 August 2020. Responding to a ... means that although the advice is still to stay at home as much as possible, those shielding may wish to go out to more ... or because they have been notified by the NHS or public health authorities that they have come into contact with ...
Eleven new disability research projects receive £1 million as DRILL calls for new bids
15 May 2017 | News
... each of previously awarded funding to explore aspects of how disabled people can live as full citizens in our ... are led by disabled people or people with long term health conditions, working in co-production with academics ... Ireland Praxis Researching the experiences of people with mental health problems and intellectual disabilities of ...
Law firm wants examples of people losing disability premiums following move to UC
14 March 2018 | News
... and ‘AR’, they both suffer from physical and/or mental health conditions. The loss of their SDP and EDP has ... for the court to be provided with other case studies which show the broad and varied range of situations in which ...
DPOs demand full disclosure at Covid Inquiry
06 June 2023 | News
... people when planning for and responding to the pandemic. How and why many Disabled people were initially excluded ... from Covid 19 and from other conditions due to cuts to health and social care, and (2) at risk socially, physically ... the Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984 granted so much power to the Executive over and above the scrutiny of ...