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Report on Ongoing Impact of Pandemic on Immunocompromised People Launched in Parliament
08 December 2023 | News
... in August 2023 revealed persistent, negative differences in health, finances, mental health, trust in politics and life satisfaction among ... people report higher levels of dissatisfaction with how the UK government handled the pandemic and with ...
DR UK says ESA cut will not be offset by other measures
07 March 2016 | News
... evidence from hundreds of thousands of disabled people showed, it will do nothing to incentivise employment – ... personalised support for people living with disability and health conditions, and tailored advice for employers when ... cuts. But this cut is drastic and without justification. It doesn’t even make sense from the point of view of ...
Invitation to be part of a study of disabled people from the LGBT community
27 April 2016 | News
New study funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Social Care Research seeks ... from the LGBT community (including people who use direct payments, personal budgets or who self-fund to pay for social care). A new project launching this month however hopes to address this knowledge gap by discovering ...
DPOs demand DHSC use the social model lens within its major condition strategy
27 June 2023 | News
... call for evidence . This is where the Department of Health and Social Care sought views and ideas on how to prevent, diagnose, treat and manage the 6 major ... and social care sector of the health (both physical and mental) benefits of sports and physical activity. And that ...
Keep the £20 per week UC uplift for another year “at the very least” says Work and Pensions Committee
08 February 2021 | News
... Given this, the MPs warn that removing the temporary payment from April 2021, while the effects of the pandemic ... increase to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit. That does not mean, however, that we are not concerned about other elements of ...
Prepayment meter ban extended by Ofgem
15 March 2023 | News
A ban on the forced installation of prepayment meters by energy companies has been extended beyond ... the homes of financially vulnerable people to force fit prepayment meters to cover fuel debt. A former magistrate told ... and campaigns officer at DR UK and one of the leads at the Disability Poverty Campaign group, which has been ...
Changes to the definition of "terminally ill" for the purposes of PIP, DLA and AA
03 April 2023 | News
... ill” for the purposes of personal independence payment (PIP), disability living allowance (DLA), and attendance allowance ... of people in their final year of life to have their disability benefits fast-tracked available from gov.uk. ...
Submit your personal independent payment appeal online
28 May 2018 | News
... which allows you to submit their personal independence payment appeal online. Find out more about the pilot To use ... want to appeal a decision about a Personal Independent Payment; and live in one of the following areas: ... for more detailed information you can order a copy of the Disability Rights Handbook from our shop Submit your ...
NAO report lays bare shortfalls in adult social care
30 March 2021 | News
... by the National Audit Office (NAO). The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) sets policy and has overall ... Although the CQC rates most care as good, DHSC can’t tell how effectively local authorities commission care and the ... reforms committed to in the recent White Paper. The DHSC does not have a clear strategy to develop accommodation for ...
Government policies on rail travel to seriously disadvantage Disabled people
12 May 2023 | News
Disability Rights UK wrote to Mark Harper, Secretary of ... statistics from the Office of Road and Rail, which show the serious levels of failure of booked passenger ... which is based on the London and South East approach and does not take rural services or unstaffed stations into ...