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New bedroom tax court decision says councils decide what counts as a bedroom
05 June 2017 | News
... issue of whether it is a bedroom for bedroom tax purposes. In a disappointing new judgment, the Court of Session in Scotland has ruled that the classification of a property as ... related to the actual needs of the occupiers. A First Tier and then an Upper Tier Tribunal (in CSH/734/2014 ) upheld a ...
Commons publishes briefing on the future of Attendance Allowance
09 October 2016 | News
A recent Government consultation proposed transferring Attendance Allowance to councils as part of 100% ... consider “giving more responsibility to councils in England, and to Wales, to support older people with care needs – ...
I Can Make It is thrilled by news from Andy Street, and on the road to ‘I Can Make a Pledge’
16 November 2017 | News
I Can Make It is thrilled that Mayor of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), Andy Street , in his keynote speech at the inaugural ...
The UK Government Is Facing The UN Disability Committee - Here's How You Can Get Involved!
17 March 2024 | News
Disabled activists have been fighting for decades against our institutionalisation, isolation and deprivation – it's time the world started to ... stream. How you can help Watch the evidence session and scrutinise the government's answers Share your thoughts ...
DR UK meets new Minister for Disabled People
18 July 2016 | News
Today we met the new Minister for Disabled People Penny Mordaunt, alongside other ... We were glad to have the chance to raise several issues: the importance of the Government sticking to Stephen ... people in this Parliament the need for significant action and new approaches, devised with disabled people and our ...
World Cerebral Palsy Day 2018
05 October 2018 | News
Contributing lives for people with cerebral palsy World Cerebral ... Palsy Day is a movement of people with cerebral palsy (CP) and their families, and the organisations that support them, ... and find incredibly frustrating similarities. The same issues keep coming up again and again. “One of those ...
Proposed housing benefit cap for social housing tenants abandoned
25 October 2017 | News
Prime Minister announces local housing allowance cap will not be ... Prime Minister My hon. Friend raises an important issue, and this is something that we have been looking at very ... on Tuesday 31 October, and it will look at a wide range of issues. We need to ensure that the funding model is right so ...
Learning disability and debt
12 April 2018 | News
In this guest blog post, Jason Jaspal from Disability Rights ... disabilities can experience around managing their finances, and explains why they have been working with the Money ... on a new training course for advisers. Learning disability and debt – guest blog post from Disability Rights UK ...
Students and Universal Credit
10 June 2013 | News
House of Commons - Written Answer concerning which students can get Universal Credit - Mon, 10 June ... 2013 Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in what circumstances someone undertaking study ... the work-related requirements appropriate in their case and it is not: a course of non-advanced education or ...
Pensions and PA employers
04 June 2015 | News
There has been a lot of media interest in the pensions auto enrolment scheme and its implications for people employing their own personal ... CEO, Sue Bott, has appeared on BBC TV news, radio 5 live and radio 4’s Money box programme discussing the ...