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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 ...
Making a complaint
23 September 2024 | Resource
This resource explains how to complain if you receive poor or inadequate service. ... to try to resolve complaints informally first. This will be much quicker and more straightforward than following a ... In considering issues relating to discrimination the OIA does not investigate or make legal findings in the same way ...
DH needs more understanding on improving personalised commissioning says NAO
02 March 2016 | News
... as they seek to save money, and are constrained in how they can personalise care by the need to reduce overall ... control over their care through personal budgets and direct payments can improve their quality of life, but much of the positive evidence for personalised commissioning ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...