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Benefits must rise by inflation, says DR UK
04 October 2022 | News
... rate for next year.” There is legal protection for disability benefits such as disability living allowance, ... Triple Lock ” protecting the state retirement pension. However, she has repeatedly refused to give the same ... July this year shows that those on disability benefits have much higher rates of relative income poverty than ...
Pay sleep-in carers but not at the cost of reduced support
06 November 2017 | News
... new Social Care Compliance Scheme to help employers pay sleep-in carers. Read Department of Health, HM Revenue & Customs news story Social care ... of the self-review period will have up to three months to pay workers. HMRC will write to social care employers who ...
MS Society campaigns to scrap the PIP 20 metre rule
15 April 2019 | News
... their independence as a result. #ScrapPIP20m New research shows this is predicted to cost the UK Government £92 ... This is your chance to tell them the 20 metre rule simply doesn’t make sense – for the UK Government or people ... Rudd MP, to tell her now is the time to scrap the rule. Disability Rights UK supports this campaign. For many years ...
CQC criticises standard of care homes
13 October 2014 | News
The Chief Inspector of social care says there is too much bad care in care homes We believe it is vital that ... you what you should expect to receive if you develop a disability or health condition in social care, health, transport and more. ...
DWP refuses to publish report that found Disabled claimants had “unmet needs”
06 December 2021 | News
... was watered down after it concluded that claimants of disability benefits had “unmet needs”, according to the ... that it would be published. The report, “The Uses of Health and Disability Benefits”, was commissioned to feed ... largest independent social research agency. After being shown the first draft of the report, DWP told NatCen to ...
DR UK responds to Govt announcement about the PIP u-turn
20 March 2016 | News
... for disabled people , Liz Sayce, chief executive of Disability Rights UK said: "Scrapping any changes which make ... £4 billion in savings that the chancellor has identified does not come from disabled people. It's time now to have a wider conversation about how to support disabled people to have the same ...
Council tax hardship payments judgment victory
29 May 2014 | News
... by councils which refuse to award discretionary hardship payments. For many years, the law has given local councils ... to reduce any resident's council tax liability to "nil". However, this power has been brought into sharper focus ... in receipt of means tested benefits now have a shortfall to pay. In his judgment, the President confirms that if a ...
New benefits training course with CPAG
28 March 2023 | News
... introduction to the benefits system, with a focus on how to help people obtain benefits when they are unable to work due to a health condition or disability. Benefit Essentials covers the structure of the ...
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 ...
We want disabled peoples' experience of the criminal justice system
21 January 2019 | News
Disability Rights UK, in partnership with a leading research ... defendant, appellant or claimant) and have a physical or mental health impairment that impacted your experience. Have ...