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Challenging PIP decisions with Disability Rights UK and CPAG
04 July 2023 | Event
... as universal credit back in 2013 and PIP is now the main disability benefit for working age claimants. The DWP’s ... poor refusal decisions. This training course looks at how to ensure that a PIP revision or appeal should work to ... to PIP decision making The failure of PIP2 and poor Health Professional assessments How to ensure good medical ...
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 ...
Standard of ESA and PIP assessments unacceptable says Public Accounts Committee
30 March 2016 | News
... the level of service for claimants with fluctuating and mental health conditions. It also questions the value for money of ... contractors are below the required standard and evidence shows that attempts to reduce delays have undermined the ...
Government issues ‘phase two’ Coronavirus guidance
10 May 2020 | News
The Government has issued new guidance on how it is responding to Coronavirus, including social and ... makes no specific reference to disabled people, but does make reference to ‘clinically vulnerable’ and ... (including children in need, those with an Education, Health and Care plan and those assessed as otherwise ...
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 ...
Our concerns over timetable for moving existing disabled claimants to UC
30 July 2018 | News
... for moving disabled people and people with long-term health conditions from legacy benefits onto Universal ... managed migration, which include being disabled or having a mental health condition, but we are concerned about how these claimants will be identified. There is currently ...
Universal Credit £20 week increase must be extended to ESA, DBC tells Chancellor
02 June 2020 | News
... take too long to make changes. The most recent DWP figures show that 1,976,000 disabled people claim ESA . The ... 60 days people living with a disability or with long-term health conditions on ESA – who tend to have lower incomes ... "To blame an IT problem for not awarding disabled people a much needed increase in benefit is discriminatory and ...
Over three quarters of a million Disabled people left out of shielding help
21 April 2021 | News
... to living essentials like food, and an untold toll on the mental health and wellbeing of the already most vulnerable.” The ... report, which should form part of an urgent Inquiry into how the pandemic was handled. We continue to push for this ...
New UK Poverty report recommends the £20 per week increase to Universal Credit must be made permanent with the lifeline extended to ESA
12 January 2021 | News
... The new annual report highlights early indications of how poverty has changed in our society since the start of ... outbreak. JRF finds of all people in poverty either have a disability themselves or live with someone who does, compared with just a third of people in households not ...
Wiltshire CIL wins GSK IMPACT Award
09 March 2014 | News
... five per cent of its trustees are people living with a disability. The charity supports independent living for those with learning difficulties, frailty of old age, mental health issues, physical and sensory impairments and ...