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Discretionary Housing Payment includes DLA
17 June 2013 | News
Irwin Mitchell challenge local authority's decision to take ... people in the community who struggle to pay their rent and council tax due to their low income. Since the changes to housing benefit and the abolition of council tax benefit on 1 April 2013, ...
Joint inquiry into Northern Ireland’s welfare policy launched
11 April 2019 | News
The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee and the Work and Pensions Committee have launched joint inquiry to examine the impact of welfare policy in NI, ... is Universal Credit working in Northern Ireland? Are there issues with Universal Credit that are specific to Northern ...
Strict DWP Work Conditionality Ineffective And Often Harmful
08 August 2024 | News
Increasingly strict and prescriptive conditionality - the ... on work-related benefits - is driving perverse outcomes and is not aligned with how the public think people should ...
Read transcript of groundbreaking Disabled People and Economic Growth debate
22 February 2018 | News
DR UK has helped secure the first backbench Commons debate, in the main chamber of parliament, on Disabled People and Economic Growth - Thursday February 22nd 2018. Our ... of the debate Dr Lisa Cameron (East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) (SNP) put the following question, which was ...
DR UK responds to the Curriculum and Assessment Review
26 November 2024 | News
Disability Rights UK has responded to the Curriculum and Assessment Review , launched by the Department for ... Review aimed to identify the "most significant and pressing issues facing curriculum and assessment". It included ...
Health and Disability Green Paper published: Shaping Future Support
20 July 2021 | News
The DWP has published its long promised Health and Disability Green Paper titled Shaping Future Support. The DWP says that: “This green paper ... options for addressing some of the short- to medium-term issues in health and disability benefits. It will also start ...
DR UK speaks on inclusive education panel
31 May 2023 | News
On Monday 22nd May, the Disability Policy Centre and Mile End Institute hosted a panel at Toynbee Hall on inclusive ... website. A full list of DR UK's education policy issues, including key evidence and our policy asks, can also ...
Disability Rights UK is pleased to announce that we are working in conjunction with UNITE Magazine
12 February 2018 | News
UNITE magazine will be launching in March! Sign up for your free sample ... awareness of campaigns, highlighting everyday challenges and will give a platform to everyday disabled people to have their voice heard on the issues affecting them. Regular columnists, interviews with ...
82 benefit claimants have died after some alleged DWP activity such as termination of benefits, BBC finds
09 May 2021 | News
Cases where Disabled people claiming benefits died or came to serious harm have led to more ... Disabled people who have died - Philippa Day, Errol Graham and Jodey Whiting – are hoping to take the DWP to court in ... Prevention of Future Death (PFD) report to the DWP and private contractor Capita, requiring them to explain ...
MPs warn courts system could hamper Renters Reform Bill
09 February 2023 | News
... still appears sidelined, MPs on the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities commons select Committee published a new ... rented sector in England as the source of many other problems in that area. They said the only way to solve it ... new regulations which tackle the ongoing affordability issues across all tenures." MPs warn courts system could ...