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Disabled adults four times worse off financially than non-disabled adults finds new DBC report
15 July 2019 | News
A major new report by the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) outlines the damaging ... have found it has had a devastating impact on their wider health and wellbeing. The DBC makes a series of ... members to reduce waiting times and introduce targets for how long people should wait, and conduct full audits of ...
DWP: Deaths, cover-up, and a toxic 30-year legacy
06 April 2022 | News
Evidence stretching back more than a decade shows how the DWP repeatedly ignored recommendations to ... to make reasonable adjustments for UC claimants with mental health problems DWP accused of blocking claimant suicide ...
Disabled people paying vastly more for care in past two years
25 August 2021 | News
Disabled people are being told by councils to pay vastly more for care, according to research from the ... cuts. The BBC spoke to Saskia Granville who has a learning disability and lives in West Sussex. Her care charges have ... that Disabled people with the least resources have to somehow magic up vast sums of money to pay for these punitive ...
Disability strategy ruled unlawful, DWP denied permission to appeal
09 February 2022 | News
... permission to appeal against a court ruling that the entire disability strategy is unlawful, not just the national ... be at the heart of the strategy. It is frustrating given how much lack of equity Disabled people have in society that, in ...
Disability charities urge the Government to get a grip on PIP in new report
18 September 2017 | News
New research shows the stressful assessment process for Personal ... Payment (PIP) is making people's conditions worse. The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC), has launched the ... evidence gathering processes, to explore ways to: educate health and social care professionals on how to provide ...
Challenging PIP Decisions With Disability Rights UK
31 January 2024 | 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 ...
Government fails to commit to Household Support fund
04 March 2024 | News
... goes to councils across the country to provide special payments to help families during the cost-of-living crisis, ... cause ‘serious risk’ to your own or your family’s health or safety. Some councils might specify that you be in receipt of certain benefits to apply. However, according to sources, the HSF will finish at the ...
DWP loses more employment tribunals than any other employer
08 March 2020 | News
The DWP has lost more employment tribunals for disability discrimination than any other employer in Britain ... on disabled people. Trust comes from what an organisation does not what it says. That the DWP itself is “shocked” ... by the level of disability discrimination it has allowed shows it has lost a grip on how it serves disabled people. It ...
Sign up for the free School for Change Agents
24 January 2017 | News
... who would like to make a difference in the world, but doesn’t know where to start. School for Change Agents ... NHS Horizons; we have been running the virtual School for Health and Care Radicals for the past three years. We have ... School for Change Agents is a fantastic way to learn about how to create change, and to meet like-minded people from ...
Disability Rights welcomes proposals for new access law for disabled people
01 December 2015 | News
Richard Howitt MEP says "Finally Europe Relents" as the new EU ... MEP, in his capacity as Co-President of the All-Party Disability Rights Group of MEPs. Richard said the proposal ... nor is it the right of equal access to services. "But it does begin the legislative process, allowing the European ...