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PIP, DLA and AA end in Scotland from 2021
04 March 2019 | News
Scottish consultation: Building better Disability Assistance benefits. Find out more ... Disability Assistance will meet the needs of the children and adults it is intended to help. It will build upon work ... 2021 - Disability Assistance for Working-Age People (DAWAP) Early 2021 - Disability Assistance for Older People (DAOP) ...
New rules: PIP and terminal illness
23 February 2016 | News
New amending regulations have been issued that modify the requirement for a terminally ill claimant who is transferring from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal ... Regulations 2016 (SI.No.189/2016) New rules: PIP and terminal illness ...
COVID Inquiry Hears About Government Disregard of Disabled People
10 October 2023 | News
On 9 October, the COVID-19 Public Inquiry heard hard hitting evidence from Professors of Disability Studies, Tom Shakespeare and Nick Watson, and Kamran Mallick, CEO of Disability ... Disabled people, both prior to and during the pandemic. Issues highlighted included the greater susceptibility of ...
06 Strategic partner updates July 2015
07 July 2015 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic Partner to ... up a user-led consortium as one of 22 strategic partners in the voluntary sector. Our name is ‘Win-Win Alliance – ... aged 10 to 24, provides guidance and practical support on issues such as tackling teenage pregnancy, smoking and drug ...
MPs join activists and families in call for public inquiry into years of DWP deaths
17 December 2024 | News
MPs have joined disabled activists and bereaved families in calling for ... the government to order a public inquiry through an early day motion (EDM) tabled by John McDonnell, the former ...
Councils use of Capita leads to 7 per cent cut in care packages
22 September 2016 | News
Southampton City Council (SCC) has employed the outsourcing giant Capita to clear a backlog of annual reviews of its ... care packages, in an apparent attempt to cut costs and help fill a hole in its budget. Read the Disability News ... with high-cost support packages out of their own homes and into residential and nursing institutions. It had ...
Covid Inquiry will consider impact of pandemic on Disabled people
17 July 2022 | News
... welcomed the changes to the Terms of Reference to the Covid Inquiry, which were confirmed by the Prime Minister. The ... Inclusion London, Disability North, Disability Peterborough and WinVisible. We asked that Disabled people, who made up ... for the Covid Public Inquiry in March 2022 setting out the issues it intended to address. The six organisations ...
Liz Sayce discusses Motability and PIP appeal delays
02 May 2017 | News
... Rights UK’s CEO Liz Sayce appeared on the Stuart Linnell show (BBC Radio Northampton) today. Listen to ... on the problem of PIP appeal delays throughout the country and the effect that this has on those who lose their ... weeks for an appeal hearing date. She had her PIP reduced and, and had to return her Motability car. She feels that ...
PIP Reform Green Paper’s Clear Agenda Is Reducing Financial Support To Disabled People Says DR UK
30 April 2024 | News
... Green Paper consultation on the need for extensive personal independence payment reform (PIP), openly predicated on its ... his foreword to the document, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Mel Stride says: “I am concerned about the ... crucial financial support from people with mental health problems is not going fix anything, it will make things ...
David Blunkett: Jack Ashley Lecture speech
10 March 2015 | News
... The evening was hosted by Disability Rights UK, the APPDG and the Ashley Family. Disability Rights UK would like to ... were against people with mental health or behavioural problems. The Independent Living Fund (specifically designed ... the 15 th of December last year raised a whole plethora of issues in regard to the operation of the tightened Benefit ...