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Flexible hours would combat pay gap and increase disabled peoples job opportunities
14 August 2017 | News
Offering flexible hours to all job applicants will help combat pay disparities and increase job opportunities for disabled people, according to a new research by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The recommendations form part ...
400,000 people to be pushed into poverty by health and disability benefit cuts
27 March 2025 | News
... Rachel Reeves, announced major savage cuts to the health and disability benefits. Cuts reforms announced in the Government’s Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper consultation ...
Court of Appeal hearing in mother’s fight for second inquest into death of Jodey Whiting
26 January 2023 | News
The mother of Jodey Whiting will have a Court of Appeal hearing on Tuesday 31 January and Wednesday 1 February 2023 in her fight for a second ... Jodey, who suffered severe physical and mental health problems, took her own life a fortnight after her benefits ...
DR UK praised for universal basic income analysis
16 April 2019 | News
This is the opening paragraph of Robbie Spence's roadlesstraveller blogspot. ... big welfare rights charities I used to work for: CPAG, DRUK and Working Families. Searching for "universal basic income" at cpag.org.uk and workingfamilies.org.uk yields no results, while ...
Partner of “distraught” ESA claimant says DWP drove him to his death
08 February 2021 | News
The DWP has been blamed for causing the death of a disabled man whose partner had warned he ... benefit assessment that had left him “distraught” and “devastated”, reports the Disability News Service. ... moved into a bungalow on 23 December, because the mobility problems caused by his heart condition meant he could no ...
Number Of Trussell Trust Food Parcels Nearly Double Over The Past Five Years
04 June 2024 | News
... the most parcels ever distributed by the network in a year and nearly double the number compared to five years ago. ... to five years ago. In newly published annual statistics, problems with health are reported in over one in five (22%) ... them with too little income to cover the essentials. Issues with benefits such as long waits, delays, or ...
NAO report says impractical to cease UC rollout but DWP ducks hardship issues
14 June 2018 | News
Rolling out Universal Credit (UC) – National Audit Office. NAO ... More about universal credit More about universal credit and disability The report finds that the Department for Work ... For further information on welfare rights, education issues and social care you will find our factsheets/guides ...
Jobcentre Plus payments and opening times
19 December 2017 | News
Jobcentre Plus opening hours are different over Christmas and New Year. View ... are open, arrangements have been made to make some payments early . Jobcentre Plus payments and opening times ...
Protestors Target Housing Awards
10 November 2023 | News
... are presented annually to councils, housing associations, and their partners at an event organised by Inside Housing ... tenants whose require immediate redress to their housing issues.” Hyde tenant Deni* is attending the protest to ... rooms below, landlord not responding to reporting of the problems, complaints and not completing repairs in one go or ...
Benefits cap case fails at Court of Appeal
20 February 2014 | News
... that the bedroom tax cap is discriminatory against women and children, and in particular against families that have ... that the Government’s delay in addressing recognised problems with the benefit cap’s application to women’s ... disappointing that the Court declined to decide important issues of principle affecting the large numbers of women and ...