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DWP confirms issue date of £150 Disability Cost of Living payment
22 May 2023 | News
... DWP has announced that more than 6 million Disabled people in the UK will receive a one-off lump sum payment of £150 ... be made automatically over two-week period between 20 June and 4 July 2023. Those who were paid the following ... Scottish disability benefits (adult disability payment and child disability payment) armed forces independence ...
Bedroom Tax appeal victory
24 April 2014 | News
Jayson Carmichael, the husband of one of the disabled people currently challenging the ‘Bedroom Tax’ in judicial review proceedings, ... has spina bifida and as a result of her related health problems is unable to share a bedroom with her husband. Mr ...
Write to your MP - ask them to sign the EDM on disability benefits assessments
06 April 2022 | News
Marsha de Cordova MP has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) calling for fundamental reform of WCA and PIP assessment in the forthcoming White Paper and to ...
Thanks to those who attended the Inclusive Apprenticeships event
27 October 2016 | News
... thank everyone who attended the Inclusive Apprenticeships and Skills Development on October 18 th 2016. ... apprentices Rundip Thind from DR UK on apprenticeship issues raised by disabled people Dr Nasser Siabi Chief ... into the workplace, the employment journey, what the problems are and how young people could be helped better, ...
DWP spent £120 million pounds defending challenges to ESA and PIP decisions in just two years
31 August 2020 | News
The DWP has spent more than £120 million fighting challenges to ESA and PIP decisions in the last two years – despite losing ... In addition, the DWP spent £121 million between 2017/2018 and 2018/2019, with £58 million spent on mandatory ...
MPs and Peers call for Disability Inclusion
03 May 2020 | News
In a letter to the Prime Minister, signed by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability and one hundred parliamentarians, calls are made for disabled people to be part of coronavirus strategies. Issues addressed include, ensuring accessible information, ...
Improving disability and disaster preparedness in London
29 November 2017 | News
Inclusion of persons with disabilities in disaster risk ... more pertinent time for the issue of disaster preparedness and the inclusion of disabled people in plans to be taken ... is at risk of terrorist attacks, weather related disasters and epidemics all of which could differentially affect ...
Health and Disability White Paper: support not sanctions needed, says DR UK
15 March 2023 | News
The Government has published its Health and Disability White Paper - “Transforming Future Support”- that it says “sets out our ambitious reforms to help more disabled people and people with health conditions to start, stay and succeed ...
107 organisations stand firm on Human Rights Act
09 December 2013 | News
This letter has been published in the Telegraph today. It asks political leaders to ... the continued relevance of human rights globally and here at home. SIR – Sixty-five years since the ... of Justice) Carolina Gottardo - Director, Latin American Women's Rights Services Professor Martin Green - ...
“Under strain” – the real causes of the rise in working-age disability and incapacity benefits spending
26 June 2024 | News
In one of a series of "Need to Know Election Briefings", the ... Resolution Foundation has examined the rise in incapacity and disability benefit spending. In doing so, it highlights ... seek to design a benefits system that does not create more problems than it solves. In recent years, policy makers have ...