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Government faces third legal challenge to Universal Credit migration arrangements
07 August 2019 | News
... arrangements for those who previously received the Severe Disability Premium (SDP) and Enhanced Disability Premium ... UC will be set at £120 for single claimants. That amount does not reflect what those individuals have actually lost ... receive the full £180 a month top up to their benefits. However, due to the new Regulations coming into force this ...
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 ...
Capita takes legal action to stop compensation payment ordered after PIP claimant's tragic death
06 August 2019 | News
Capita, who conduct health assessments for PIP on behalf of the DWP, is going to ... Victoria Smith died months after her personal independence payments were stopped following a Capita assessment. Capita ... ordered to pay £10,000 in damages over its handling of her disability claim. It was found to have made incorrect ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
DR UK comment on mini Budget
23 September 2022 | News
... to see an increase in benefits for those who cannot work much, or at all, due to disability. “Changes to Universal Credit will increase ...
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. ...