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Risk of major disability poverty rise
12 June 2013 | News
Risk of major disability poverty rise Today’s poverty figures from DWP ... us out of poverty. The Government must also ensure work pays by ensuring the numbers of disabled people helped to ... disabled member and not receiving disability benefits were much more likely to be in low-income households compared to ...
Discretionary Housing Payment includes DLA
17 June 2013 | News
Irwin Mitchell challenge local authority's decision to take Disability Living Allowance into account when considering Discretionary Housing Payments Every local authority receives a government grant ... Housing Payments in March 2013 from their local authority. However, the local authority decided that in assessing Mr ...
Self-Directed Support in Scotland
20 August 2014 | News
... in order to provide a range of choices to individuals as to how they are provided with their support”. The Scottish ... new duties can be summarised as: A person must have as much involvement in the assessment process as they wish and ... for the local authority. The four options are: a direct payment. directing the available support. services arranged ...
Notts Council cuts breached Care Act - Ombudsman
27 January 2020 | News
... councils can consider the financial cost when deciding how much to pay a person to meet their eligible needs, they cannot make ...
DWP ignored ‘hugely alarming’ research that linked WCA with 600 suicides, MPs are told
27 June 2022 | News
... reports. The failure is just the latest evidence to show how the DWP ignored and covered-up warnings about the ... process to cause some very major adverse effects on mental health”. He added that while it was impossible to prove ...
DR UK submits evidence to review of carers allowance
13 March 2025 | News
Last year, Government announced a review to look at why and how unpaid carers, in receipt of carers allowance, were hit with demands to pay back thousands of pounds in overpayments to DWP. ... its findings and recommendations to ministers, this summer. Disability Rights UK was invited to attend a roundtable ...
Are telephone and video appeal hearings working for Disabled people?: two new surveys launched
30 June 2021 | News
... focus of the project is those with disabilities, notably mental health related. As part of the project, IPR Justice has launched two surveys aimed at gathering evidence of how the new ways the remote replacements to face to face ...
Work Programme, WCA neither effective nor accurate
20 August 2014 | News
... programme are “far from satisfactory” for people with mental health and behavioural problems. It is estimated that 1.9 million people are receiving ESA. However, the IPPR explain that people with mental health ...
Ahead of Government’s ‘Disability Action Plan’, DPO Forum Calls For Systemic Overhaul
30 January 2024 | News
... for different Disabled and Deaf communities – however, no additional funding has been provided to support ... must commit to a radical overhaul of policy in every area; health and social care, housing, education, benefits, voting ... Access to Elected Office Fund Ensure reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 complies with the UN Committee’s ...
Sajid Javid asked to meet with Disabled people on social care reform
15 July 2021 | News
... Rights UK has written to the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, attaching the Statement, and asking ... rights are strengthened and that a system is designed which doesn't result in a lottery of care, financial burden ... us have signed the Social Care Statement. Please carry on showing support by signing the Statement at - Social Care ...