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Should I stay or should I go? Get independent advice before you claim Universal Credit
24 April 2022 | News
The DWP is encouraging those receiving “legacy benefits” who would be ... six means tested legacy benefits: income-related employment and support allowance; income-based jobseeker's allowance; ... income support; housing benefit; child tax credit; and working tax credit. As part of its initiative, the DWP ...
Invitation to be part of a study of disabled people from the LGBT community
27 April 2016 | News
New study funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Social Care Research seeks to understand more about the challenges faced by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) disabled community. Find out more ...
Independent advocacy service launched to help disabled people access Social Security Scotland benefits
30 June 2020 | News
... been launched to support disabled people to access benefits and to enable them “to have their voice heard, express their views and feel understood”. The executive agency that administers the Scottish social security system, Social ...
Tell us how your experience in the workplace is affected by workplace design
17 April 2018 | News
... Academy Programme students, Emily Georghiou (Centre for Ageing Better) and Paul Hartley (Blind Veterans UK) are exploring the role ... of this, they have developed a survey to try to understand people's experiences in the workplace and how this is ...
What needs to change in Universal Credit? New All-Party Parliamentary Group report
24 July 2019 | News
... (APPG) on Universal Credit (UC) has published a report containing a “list of practical recommendations for the changes ... of their own constituents with UC, to receive advice and support from experts in the field, share best practice in supporting constituents and to monitor practical experiences of this critical policy ...
Around 1 in 2 Universal Credit claimants have benefit deducted to repay an Advance Payment
12 June 2019 | News
Around 1 in 2 (44%) of Universal Credit claimants have a deduction to ... steps to ensure that advances meet the needs of claimants and that recovery arrangements are personalised and reasonable. From October 2019 we are reducing the ...
Take part in research on impact of welfare reform on disabled peoples' lives
27 March 2018 | News
Exploring the impact of welfare reform on the lives of disabled ... which they’ve commissioned the University of East Anglia and University of Glasgow to undertake. They want to interview 50 disabled people with long-term conditions and mental health conditions, to discuss their experiences ...
Fundamental drivers of good co-production in the commissioning of disabled peoples' services
02 July 2018 | News
The small things in the practices of co-production really matter, so ... can have a stronger voice in the commissioning of social and health services. Read Anna’s blog Anna Denham has ... UK) since November 2015, mostly in the field of research and policy impact. For the Getting Things Changed research ...
NAO report says Motability scheme excellent but why £2.62 billion in reserves?
06 December 2018 | News
... an excellent service to customers, but has long operated in a protected environment, supported by government, which ... scheme’s four strategic objectives is to improve reach and awareness, but there has been limited effort to understand why many eligible people do not use the scheme. In every ...
I Can Make It Presents: Rahul Tooray, Champion for I Can Make It in Birmingham
28 February 2018 | News
... job opportunities for young people with disabilities using social value to do so. On Thursday 22 nd February a ... UK helped secure was held on the subject of disability and the economy. With this debate in mind we’d thought ... parliament who attended the debate will read his blog post. And bear in mind his efforts along with the ones of our ...