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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 urge rule change to enable UC to be payable to disabled students
01 August 2017 | News
... Group (APPG) on Disability have written to the DWP Minister Damian Hinds to urge that all full-time disabled ... which replaces means tested benefits such as Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Housing Benefit (HB) is being increasingly 'rolled ...
Adult social care complaints up by a fifth with more than half upheld
11 November 2015 | News
The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) says that 2,803 complaints and enquiries about adult social care were received in 2014/2015 - an increase of 18% on the previous year - and that, in 55% of cases that were investigated, the ...
Our response to proposals to transfer Attendance Allowance to councils
25 September 2016 | News
Self-sufficient local government: 100% Business Rates Retention consultation. View our response View ... with one specific aspect of the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) consultation: the proposals as ... consequences for individuals, carers, family members and local authorities. Our key concerns are that: Local ...
Operation Yellowhammer prepares for Brexit no deal
12 March 2019 | News
Preparing for and responding to short-term disruption arising from ... Contingencies Secretariat (CCS) sits within Cabinet Office and aims to increase UK government’s ability to respond to ...
Suspension of childs DLA unlawful
07 July 2015 | News
Landmark Judgment: Suspension of child’s DLA in hospital breach if his human rights The Supreme Court has ... for more than 84 days was a breach of his human rights and unlawful. The ruling announced could have a significant ...