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Jobcentre Plus payments and opening times
19 December 2017 | News
... View opening times To make sure customers receive their payments on a day when Jobcentre Plus offices are open, arrangements have been made to make some payments early . Jobcentre Plus payments and opening times ...
PIP 20m legal challenge fails
15 October 2015 | News
... to move up to 20 metres aided or unaided. Previously, under Disability Living Allowance (DLA), the equivalent higher ... that the DWP consistently fails to provide information on how many disabled people have been awarded the PIP enhanced ... independence and participation in society. This change does not meet this test. Despite receiving over 1,100 ...
Over 100 Disabled People's Mass Lobby of MPs to Resist Benefit Cuts
22 May 2025 | News
... down on dangerous proposed cuts and other ‘reforms’ to health and disability benefits, Disabled people demanded MPs vote ... over 100 Disabled people came to Westminster Hall to tell how they are affected by the cuts. Although we had many ...
Funded help in Scotland to access disability benefits
30 September 2015 | News
... both PIP and ESA, which are benefits for people with ill-health or disabilities, assessments are carried out by firms ... by the Department for Work and Pensions, to establish how their disability affects their life and what level of support they ...
Flexible hours would combat pay gap and increase disabled peoples job opportunities
14 August 2017 | News
... flexible hours to all job applicants will help combat pay disparities and increase job opportunities for disabled ... form part of a strategy for tackling pay imbalances across disability gender and ethnicity. The EHRC report examines the disability pay gap in Great Britain, defined as the ...
300k unpaid carers and 450k Disabled people to suffer UC cut
05 October 2021 | News
... people can simply work more hours to make up for their cut doesn’t stack up for those already working full time or with caring responsibilities.” Read more on how the cut will affect carers here . Both Labour and the ...
One year on budget cuts make Care Act “less effective”
31 March 2016 | News
A year after it was introduced, Disability Rights UKs legal partners, Irwin Mitchell ... where eligibility could vary from council to council. However, Irwin Mitchell say that it is still unclear whether ... the courts which examines the extent of this duty, or how much reliance can be placed upon it in obtaining better and ...
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 ...
We host Disability Hate Crime event in Birmingham
21 March 2013 | News
Today Disability Rights UK is hosting a Disability Hate Crime ... party reporting centres in DPOS . Our toolkit makes it much easier and safer for disabled people to report hate ... The event coincides with a new report which considers how the police, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and ...
Claimant deaths still linked to systemic flaws in benefits system, DWP document shows
27 January 2023 | News
... for Work and Pensions (DWP), an official document has shown. The DWP document, released to Disability News Service (DNS) following a freedom of ... and cold”, “genuinely can’t survive like this for much longer”, was “in so much debt”, “literally ...