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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 ...
New Care and Support Alliance survey reveals shocking picture of neglect in care system
09 May 2018 | News
... nearly 4,000 people who need care or look after someone who does reveals the damning reality of a care system that is ... to an open letter to Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, highlighting the urgent need for him ... care; the unnecessary pressure being placed on the NHS and how family and friends who step in to try to fill the gap ...
Government statement on Universal Credit: Managed Migration
22 July 2019 | News
... no more than 10,000 claimants. Rudd reiterated that the DWP does not inted to stop benefits of anyone who participates in the pilot, instead they will be testing how to encourage and support those who move over the ... their approach to claimants who are entitled to the severe disability premium (SDP), she said: "The regulations that I ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...