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BPS signs consensus statement calling for removal of benefit sanctions
25 March 2019 | News
The British Psychological Society has joined eight other leading mental health organisations in ... security system too often treats people without dignity and humanity, contributing to and worsening mental health ... off benefits when their health or other critical factors clearly make this inappropriate. Disability Rights UK will ...
European Commission Habitual Residence Test Guide
13 January 2014 | News
... Test' to help Member States apply EU rules on the coordination of social security for EU citizens that have moved ... gives more clarity about the EU 'Habitual Residence Test' and will facilitate its application in practice by Member ... clarifies the separate concepts of ‘habitual residence’ and ‘temporary residence’ or ‘stay’. These ...
Government contravened public sector equality duty, High Court says
16 February 2022 | News
... he ignored the public sector equality duty when recruiting, according to a ruling by the High Court this week. The case relates to the appointment of Dido Harding and Mike Coupe by Matt Hancock to their senior roles as part of the Government’s response to the COVID 19 pandemic. The roles, as Head of the National Institute for ...
Esther McVey makes statement on correcting underpayments to IB claimants moving to ESA
15 March 2018 | News
Employment and Support Allowance: Written statement - HCWS549 Made by: Esther McVey (The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) See Memo DMG 11/18 Employment and Support ... to the House on how the Department will be undertaking work to correct underpayments that may have occurred as ...
TUC calls for basic level of Universal Credit to be raised to £260 week during coronavirus outbreak
06 April 2020 | News
... through the coronavirus outbreak. Without an urgent increase, the TUC says, unemployment support will be ... than during the mass unemployment peaks of the 1980s and 1990s. In a new report, the union body highlights that ... austerity policies our it our social safety net is broken. Nearly half of those in poverty, 6.9 million people, are from ...
Liz Sayce at the Work Foundation
21 January 2015 | News
Fluctuating conditions, fluctuating support: Launch of the second ... in managing a workforce where the prevalence of chronic and fluctuating conditions is set to rise. It explores the kinds of support which employers will need from doctors and other healthcare professionals, from the welfare and ...
Frank Gardner speaks at the Jack Ashley Memorial Lecture
05 July 2016 | News
... Ashley family, the All-Party Parliamentary Disability Group and Disability Rights UK. After opening words from Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson and John Bercow MP, the Speaker of the House of Commons, ...
Govt wants to keep 20 metre PIP rule
03 July 2013 | News
... states the Government preferred option is to keep existing PIP mobility rules but that they are “keeping an open ... they intend to attach to responses from the consultation; and whether they intend to publish the reasons for their eventual decision.” and “…. what will happen to those claimants who have ...
Disabled people unite to reduce their costs of living
03 November 2015 | News
Valuing the purple pound: How can disabled people reduce their cost of living and risk of poverty? In the face of cuts to their incomes, disabled people and their representative organisations are to meet at a ...
MPs say overhaul Universal Support or put whole Universal Credit project at risk
28 October 2018 | News
Universal Support is an offer of support with using a computer to make a claim, and support with personal budgeting. Work and Pensions Committee website DWP envisaged that Universal ...