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Advicenow produce new PIP appeals guide
25 May 2016 | News
How to Win a PIP Appeal This guide is for everybody who got thinks ... their application for PIP. It is produced by Advicenow and is intended to help you decide if you should challenge ... terms, what you need to know, where you need to go, and what you need to do to solve your problem. You can view ...
Northern Ireland second independent review of PIP finds assessment causes fear, anxiety, stress and frustration for many disabled people
15 December 2020 | News
The second independent review of PIP in Northern Ireland, commissioned ... The first Independent review of PIP was carried out and published in June 2018. It made 14 recommendations of ...
Open Letter to Manchester MPs Over Benefit Cuts
23 May 2025 | News
... Manchester Equality Panels, which are advisory Panels to Andy Burnham, Greater Manchester's Mayor, have written an open letter to all Greater Manchester MP's expressing their concerns about the Government's Green Paper "Pathways to Work" and its impact on Disabled people. The letter begins " we ...
Low Commission legal aid report published
12 January 2014 | News
The Low Commission on the Future of Advice and Legal Support. The final report of the Low Commission calls for a fresh approach ... with employment, debt, housing and other social welfare law problems. In particular it calls for: a national strategy ...
New report finds disability employment rates rise higher than those for non-disabled
13 January 2019 | News
Setting the record straight: How record employment has changed ... increase in employment in the United Kingdom between 2008 and 2018. The definition of disability is based on the 1995 ... a rise in the proportion of people reporting mental health problems. At the same, time employment rates have increased ...
Almost half of food bank users have money taken by DWP from benefit payments
30 November 2020 | News
... Trust has published a new report - Lift the Burden - revealing that one in two households at food banks (47%), already ... error, makes it harder for people to afford the essentials and can affect people’s mental health. More than half of ... at food banks where someone was living with mental health problems reported they owed money to the government through ...
Over 460% rise in PIP claims stopped due to failure to return review form
15 February 2023 | News
New figures, released by Tom Pursglove, the Minister for Disabled People, show that in 2017, 7,500 claims ... return their form on time. However, he maintained that PIP and disability living allowance claimants who fail to return ... those who need additional support? These are all issues that need answers." Scores of deaths of claimants in ...
Current employment programmes fail disabled people
10 July 2013 | News
... deserve better than current employment programmes Speaking at the Welfare to Work Conference yesterday Liz ... employment - against a performance target of 16.5 per cent (and even that is not high). Work Choice has slightly better ... in 8 months it only helped 80 people with mental health problems get jobs in the whole country. One NHS Trust in ...
Three quarters of people referred to Trussell Trust food banks report that they or a member of their household is Disabled
04 July 2023 | News
New landmark UK research by the Trussell Trust in its most in-depth study to date on hunger reveals its ... often overlap, but all conditions – from mental health issues, to physical and learning disabilities – are more ...
Our popular mandatory reconsideration workshop
10 December 2013 | News
Martin Williams and Mike Spencer of Child Poverty Action Group ... us an inspiring number of ideas for challenging the new mandatory reconsideration before appeals rule at our workshop ... duty or discriminate against people with mental health problems. The other main topic was what you can do if you ...