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Scrap six months campaign victory: fast-tracked access to benefits for people with terminal illness expanded
11 July 2021 | News
In response to the Scrap 6 Months campaign led by the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA) and Marie Curie, the Government has pledged to make it ... vital financial support quicker than they can do at present and at the highest rate through revised Special Rules. The ...
DR UK Response To Fit Note Reform Consultation
22 July 2024 | News
In a May 2024 call for evidence, lasting 12 weeks, the DWP ... with long term health conditions “to access timely work and health support”. Although the consultation has now ... lists for healthcare are another factor – there are now nearly two million people waiting for mental health support ...
Benefit sanctions main reason for food bank resort
07 December 2014 | News
An All-Party inquiry into hunger and food poverty in Britain has ... do more with surplus unsold products. Of benefit -related problems the report says: “There is a clear moral case to ...
Legal Challenge To DWP Over Winter Fuel Payment Cut
27 September 2024 | News
Govan Law Centre (GLC) has raised proceedings for judicial review in Scotland’s Supreme Court, the Court of Session in Edinburgh, on behalf of a couple in receipt of the state pension and a modest occupational pension. The petition has been ...
Excess winter deaths hit record high at over fifty thousand
03 December 2018 | News
... by the Office for National Statistics estimate that in 2017/18 there were an estimated 50,100 excess winter deaths between December and March in England and Wales. Read more Office for ... hospitals by tackling the avoidable illnesses and health problems linked to living in a cold home.” Disability ...
Targeted Ten-Year Plan Needed For National Disability Strategy
06 December 2023 | News
... the development of the National Disability Strategy (NDS) and its efforts to engage with Disabled people are ... described the Government’s NDS as a “list of un-coordinated and largely pre-existing short-term policies” and ... disability policy proposals, advise ministers on key issues, and develop, implement and monitor the NDS”. The ...
PM asked to fix social care
06 September 2022 | News
The Care and Support Alliance (CSA) has responded to research from Age UK by calling on the new Prime Minister Liz Truss to urgently provide ... their social care needs met such as washing, toileting, and eating and have called for huge investment in the care ...
Disabled people deserve better support for work schemes
03 March 2013 | News
... failure of the government’s programmes, Work Programme and Work Choice, to help disabled people into work. The Work Programme helped just over 1,000 out of ... for instance with people with serious mental health problems (who face the very greatest barriers to employment ...
Channel 4 produces new guide to employing disabled people
25 February 2018 | News
Channel 4 has produced a pioneering guide to employing disabled people which has been ... how to make a company more attractive to disabled people and ways to offer support to disabled employees. As well as offering practical advice on finding, hiring and retaining disabled talent, the guide also explains why ...
Free iPads for care homes ‘not enough’ says DR UK
30 September 2020 | News
Staff and people living in care homes are to be given free iPads to connect with friends and family this winter. The government says that: “iPads ...