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Benefit Sanctions More Likely For Black and Minority Ethnic Claimants
17 September 2024 | News
... to meet the ‘ work-related conditions ’ that apply in your case. These failures are called ‘sanctionable ... are four different types of sanction: lowest, low, medium and higher. In each case, benefits can be reduced over ... to extreme hardship, including food bank use , poor mental and physical health and financial debt. Black and minority ...
PIP and ESA appeal success rate now 75 per cent
15 September 2019 | News
The success rate for PIP and ESA appeals has now reached 75%, according to new Ministry of Justice (MoJ) statistics. The new MoJ ... disability living allowance appeals had a 67% success rate; and universal credit appeals a 65% success rate. For more ...
New Secretary of State for Health and Social Care appointed
09 July 2018 | News
... Matt Hancock MP is the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Read biography The Secretary of State is responsible for the work of the Department of Health and Social Care, including: overall financial control and oversight of NHS ...
EHRC funding for housing discrimination and social security law cases
28 February 2018 | News
The Legal Support Project provides advice and funding to help individuals who have experienced discrimination to pursue legal claims. The Equality and Human Rights Commission are now accepting applications ...
Transport for London maps make tube journeys comfortable and accessible
05 July 2017 | News
... have produced a new map to help people with conditions including claustrophobia and anxiety. There are 270 stations on the Tube network, but ... more than half are actually above ground, with the Victoria and Waterloo and City lines being the only lines that are ...
Reasonable work adjustments can be reduced hours
11 November 2013 | News
... their duty to make reasonable adjustments by only offering a disabled employee reduced hours for a fixed period. In Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Higgins , the employee, Mr Higgins, was ... a counter proposal that the period be extended to 26 weeks and refused to return to work unless this was met. The DWP ...
Returning to work: disabled people’s jobs and health under threat
18 May 2020 | News
Employers are denying disabled people paid leave to remain at home if they ... from disabled people’s organisations to government to expand the criteria of its list of extremely vulnerable people, ... million. People shielding in line with Public Health England guidance are entitled to statutory sick pay, but this ...
Nearly Half of Families With A Disabled Child Living in Poverty
30 January 2024 | News
The proportion of families with Disabled children who are living in poverty rose by nearly a third in two years, even before the cost-of-living ... measurement being developed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The measurement – which aims to ...
Shaping Our Lives A Refuge for All Project and Findings Report
25 March 2019 | News
... a project led by disabled women with experience of violence and abuse. Shaping Our Lives A Refuge for All Project and Findings Report An advisory group of disabled women have ...
Three of the UK's biggest cities have no plans for providing wheelchair-accessible homes
06 December 2022 | News
New reporting from the BBC has found that some of England's major ... the government committed to increasing the accessibility standards for new build homes but there remains no progress on ...