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Government to trial offer of additional Work Coach support for claimants awaiting their work capability assessment
07 June 2022 | News
Minister for Disabled People Chloe Smith has given a preview ... options for addressing some “short-to-medium-term issues in health and disability benefits”. The Green Paper also aimed to ...
Report on our Leadership Academy graduation event
10 May 2018 | News
... for employees with lived experience of health conditions and disability. View video On 10 May 2018, we held the ... Through presentations the delegates highlighted key findings, from their reports, which gave attendees a chance to see first-hand key issues faced by disabled employees in the work place. Thus, ...
Government announce Minimum Income Guarantee rise
14 February 2023 | News
The Government has confirmed that the Minimum Income Guarantee will increase in line with ... care charges, taken from benefit payments, have left thousands of Disabled people drawing on social care without ... income guarantee (MIG) is set by the Department of Health and Social Care and is reviewed on an annual basis. The MIG ...
Claimants with severe disability premium prevented from claiming universal credit
31 January 2019 | News
From 16 January 2019 new regulations prevent those receiving the severe disability premium (SDP) in a working age ... - an award of income support, income-related employment and support allowance, income-based jobseeker's allowance or ... continue to claim the above existing ‘legacy benefits’ and tax credits. This means that they will only move to ...
DWP admits 'Access to Work' support is failing Disabled people
14 February 2025 | News
MPs at a select committee hearing heard about the struggles facing many Disabled claimants ... funding that can pay for things like specialist equipment and assistive software for a Disabled person, support ... vulnerabilities", with one of his constituents waiting nearly six months for their application to be approved. ...
Kamran Mallick: 'I want to change the world for disabled people'
22 May 2018 | News
... of Disability Rights UK on how the organisation is campaigning to remove the kind of discrimination he faced. Read full ... the head when she stood next to his wheelchair. Now 45, and almost a year into his role as chief executive of ... and youth groups for disabled people in order to understand issues “from the grassroots”. In the coming months, he ...
Green Party manifesto includes disability measures
13 June 2024 | News
... launched its election manifesto. Unfortunately, no BSL interpreter was present. Green Party co-leaders, Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer, shared plans to boost health and social care spending and improve benefit levels. As ...
About our 'In the Making' project
12 August 2014 | News
A successful bid to the Arts and Humanities Research Council is set to make disabled people pioneers in a new industrial revolution Researchers and disability rights campaigners have collaborated to ...
Actions paused in Government’s Disability Strategy
06 September 2022 | News
In January 2022, the High Court declared that the National ... to be "consultation". The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has sought permission to appeal the High Court's decision, and the Court of Appeal's ruling on whether permission to ...
Independent Living Fund: post-closure review
19 January 2017 | News
... assessment of the experiences of the closure of the Independent Living Fund in England. View report Summary of findings The Independent Living ... high support needs. It was permanently closed in June 2015 and the responsibility for supporting ILF recipients in ...