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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 ...
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 ...
Bedroom tax costs more than it saves
05 February 2014 | News
... Government's Welfare Reform Committee has published its Interim Report on the 'Bedroom Tax'. The report looks at whom the 'bedroom tax' is affecting and makes the case that it may cost more than it saves and ... of Work and Pensions to deal with the transitional problems does not match the scale of the problem. It ...
Our comment on benefits spending cap breach
19 June 2014 | News
Ineffective benefits changes It is no surprise that MPs are ... DWP will not achieve savings through introducing Employment and Support Allowance – see ... 2 year outcomes are between 6% and 12%.‘ There are major problems of implementation of the new benefit regimes. At ...
Dr Lisa Cameron MP leads debate on United Nations Day of Persons with Disabilities in the House of Commons
13 December 2021 | News
Change is needed “right at the top” to help increase representation of people with disabilities in ... told by Dr Lisa Cameron MP for East Kilbride Strathaven and Lesmahagow. The MP, who chairs the All-Party ... with Disabilities in the House of Commons and to raise issues of ongoing inequality in education, employment, ...
DR UK writes to Minister for Disabled People to press for £20 week increase to ESA
23 June 2020 | News
Following a recent roundtable meeting with the Minister for ... Credit increase to ESA. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government announced an temporary emergency ... April 2020 survey of over 200 disabled people found that: nearly all (95%) had seen an increase in their costs as a ...
MPs question support for vulnerable under UC
08 April 2014 | News
The latest Work and Pensions Committee report on Universal Credit (UC) ... DWP’s need to provide more detail on the support it intends to provide for vulnerable people when UC is finally ... Credit, these concerns have been hidden by the massive problems with IT, which the report also highlights. ...
Our view on boosting employment for disabled people
06 June 2016 | News
... report - Retention Deficit: a new approach to boosting employment for people with health problems and disabilities Resolution Foundation Launch event film - ...
Data Protection Bill Proposes “Wholly Unnecessary” Surveillance Measures That Are A “Disproportionate Violation” Of Benefit Claimants Privacy
16 January 2024 | News
The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill would weaken important data protection rights and safeguards, making it more difficult for people to know ...