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MPs debate Universal Credit Roll-out
18 October 2017 | News
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth) (Lab) calls on the Government to pause the ... to pause the roll-out of universal credit while the issues associated with this key social security programme ... are doing something to right some of the Universal Credit problems highlighted. Commons speaker, John Bercow has said ...
Green Paper published – £5 billion cuts proposed by scrapping the WCA and changed PIP assessment
18 March 2025 | News
... Government has today published its Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper consultation. ... outlining the reforms in Parliament, Liz Kendall the Work and Pensions Minister said the Green Paper reforms would ...
Indignity of disabled man waiting 2 years for home adaptations
07 May 2018 | News
DR UK on BBC Hereford and Worcester radio. Stephen Sadler is one of many disabled people who are waiting for crucial adaptations to their property. Hereford ... it was so distressing to hear that even today we have these problems and that this is not an isolated case. It shows you ...
ESA claimants levels of food insecurity sharply increase during COVID-19 pandemic: new research report
11 October 2021 | News
... did not receive the £20 per week uplift claimants, and probably as a result, their levels of food insecurity have sharply increased during COVID-19 relative ... of food insecurity: any food insecurity, where the quality and variety of people’s diets were affected by lack of ...
A lot of interesting developments on I Can Make It to close 2017
14 December 2017 | News
... our event to be held on the 20 th of March 2018 at The Financial Times. At the event employers can either pledge a ... to meet our Champions, chat to the I Can Make It and Disability Rights UK team, make new contacts and discuss ideas on getting more young people with ...
Human Rights Act 1998
07 October 2022 | Resource
... does the European Court of Human Rights do? Key Articles and Protocols When to use the Human Rights Act What can the Human Rights Act do once you complain? Examples of Human Rights related cases Article 6 Article ... Human Rights related cases Article 6 Examples of Article 6 issues raised in case law include: H (A Child) [2015] - A ...
Government refuses to start public inquiry into Covid as PM accused of saying let the “bodies pile high”
27 April 2021 | News
... who have suffered bereavement through Covid that “an inquiry now is not appropriate”. A letter sent from the ... The government said it is focussing on vaccine delivery and preparing for “the effects of the third wave of the ... by the very same government which made so many mistakes early on in this pandemic – mistakes which led to an ...
Govt responds to MP review of benefit sanctions policy
22 October 2015 | News
Government response to Work and Pensions Select Committee report, Benefit sanctions ... beyond the Oakley Review Written Statement was made by Mr Iain Duncan Smith (The Secretary of State for Work and ... the Work and Pensions Select Committee, we will trial from early next year a system of warning before a sanction is ...
DR UK on Commons Committee report on ESA-PIP public contract failures
13 February 2018 | News
Commenting on the Work and Pensions select committee report into ... in need of support. "The recording of assessments, and the early provision of assessor reports to claimants and their ... For further information on welfare rights, education issues and social care you will find our factsheets/guides ...
MPs hold WCA evidence session
10 June 2014 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee is holding a final oral evidence session for its inquiry into ... about the delivery of the WCA by Atos, and how these issues may be resolved with the new provider The ESA ...