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Human Rights Convention and Court reform
14 January 2014 | News
... of the system of the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. The Council of ... of the European Court of Human Rights (DH-GDR) is holding an open call for information, proposals and views on the issue of the longer-term reform of the ...
Disability Rights UK concerns over Access to Work - Letter to Minister for Disabled People
05 November 2012 | News
Letter to Esther McVey, Minister for Disabled People 6 November 2012 Today Liz Sayce, Chief Executive of Disability Rights UK and author of the independent review commissioned by ... to Work, to make it much better known, to extend its use and strip out unnecessary bureaucracy, so that many more ...
Disability Rights UK on the "Right track" for Disabled people.
08 November 2024 | News
... many years Disability Rights UK has been on record as pushing the case for a root and branch change to the way the rail industry has treated ... as respected paying passengers and not ‘objects causing problems’. Stephen has regularly complained that Disabled ...
Claimants with severe disability premium awards no longer exempt from the requirement to claim Universal Credit
14 January 2021 | News
... also make changes to the eligibility for protection againt the loss of the SDP. Universal Credit (UC) remains problematic for many disabled people due to issues such as the need to claim UC and maintain their claim digitally, the initial 5 week wait ...
Lords vote for Tax Credit cut delay and compensation for losers
26 October 2015 | News
... of 17 The Hollis amendment proposed that: “this House declines to consider the draft Regulations laid before the House ... for a minimum of three years for all low-income families and individuals currently receiving tax credits before 5 ... protection in the autumn statement and the constitutional issues surrounding the Lords vote “Tonight unelected ...
The Impact Of National Insurance Contribution Rise On Social Care
12 November 2024 | News
... expert, has written about the potential impact of rising National Insurance contributions for Disabled people who ... contributions will have a huge impact on Disabled people and PA's and the social care system. Factors such as rise in tax and NI and inflation only exacerbate the financial problems that Disabled people already experience in their ...
MPs warn that social care vision needs cash
08 August 2022 | News
... have urged the Government to provide significant extra funding for the “ravaged social care sector” this year and in the longer term. The cross-party Levelling Up, ... relates to immediate cost pressures or on wider structural issues in the sector, the fundamental problem is that there ...
Upper Tribunal rules DWP wrong to deny appeals over refused benefits
02 October 2017 | News
... The DWP were challenged by the Child Poverty Action Group and two claimants with serious mental health problems who were refused ESA and then failed to ask for a ... many claimants will be vulnerable for reasons including issues relating to their mental health or learning ...
Government’s independent reviewer did not know of coroner’s report blaming suicide on the WCA
09 November 2015 | News
Ministers appear to have failed to hand a 2010 coroner’s ... health conditions – to the expert they commissioned to independently review the test An investigation by ... by ITN News at 10 last night) suggests that Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and Employment ...
“Barbaric and inhumane” care is “generating trauma” for Disabled children
27 April 2021 | News
The Health and Social Care Committee has heard of the horrifying conditions that Disabled people live in. Benji ... She told the committee the only treatment he was given in nearly four months was a change in medication which led to ...