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DR UK Ambassador Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson speaks out against cut to ESA
12 January 2016 | News
Cross-bench peer Tanni Grey Thompson has written an article in Today’s Times – on the day disabled people are ... says it wants to see more disabled people in paid work and halve the disability employment gap, an aspiration I ... a year to £3,800, a reduction of 30%. They’ll get nearly £30 a week less than current claimants – for people ...
DWP assessment firms still producing shocking levels of sub-standard reports
26 January 2023 | News
Contractors likely to be bidding for new five-year contracts to test eligibility for ... are still producing a “shockingly high” number of sub-standard assessment reports, nine years after they first won ... are still producing a “shockingly high” number of sub-standard assessment reports, nine years after they first won ...
PIP has cost up to £2 billion more than keeping DLA
15 January 2019 | News
Government disability benefit spending has increased by 15% to 20% cent despite the aim of ... £4.2 billion gap in public finances. Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, Frank Field said: “DWP told us PIP would save taxpayers money and introduce a fair, transparent assessment process. ...
PPE telephone survey with personal assistant employers
12 July 2020 | News
DR UK is a stakeholder in the PA Framework Group which has been working with the Department of Health and Social Care’s PPE future demand strategy team to help understand individual employer ...
More than 80 people a month are dying after being declared fit for work
26 August 2015 | News
More than 80 people a month are dying after being declared “fit for work” according to ... show that 2,380 people died between December 2011 and February 2014 shortly after a work capability assessment ... requests, also revealed that between December 2011 and February 2014, 50,580 ESA claimants had died within 14 ...
PIP claims by terminal ill cancer patients being rejected
23 October 2017 | News
... rights advisor says that at least 30 clients with terminal cancer have had their PIP claims rejected in the last ... people’s organisation Disability Solutions West Midlands and voluntarily for Unite Community. In one case, a man with ...
Three Months to make a difference
28 July 2020 | News
... written by the Disabled Students’ Commission (DSC), the independent and strategic group established in March this year and funded by the Office for Students (OfS), highlights ...
DBC open letter to Government on second chance to stop ESA cuts
16 November 2016 | News
... is a national coalition of over 70 different charities and other organisations committed to working towards a fair benefits system. Disability Rights UK is a member of the DBC and has signed this letter. Original post on the DBC website ...
Disability charities brand WCA test “farcical”
26 August 2013 | News
... half of people with progressive conditions such as Parkinson's Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Multiple Sclerosis, or ... Parkinson’s Society, MS Society, Cystic Fibrosis Trust and the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Societyhighlight that: ... are placed in the WRAG when newly assessed for ESA, and allocated a prognosis period for when they may have ...
Proposed Social Care Cap: Comparison with existing system
23 May 2017 | News
... is a brief comparison between the current social care charging system and what we know about Conservative party proposals for social care capping, in England, as outlined in their 2017 manifesto. This is intended ...