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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 ...
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, ...
Improved protections against forced fitting of pre-payment meters
19 April 2023 | News
... has announced a new code of practice, which bans the forced installation of Prepayment meters (PPMs) for people with ... 85, people with health conditions that worsen in the cold and those with health related equipment. The new voluntary ... years of age. Households with residents with severe health issues including terminal illnesses or those with a medical ...
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 ...
Election manifestos 2016: See what you voted for
03 May 2016 | News
Links to manifestos and information on key proposals related ... Support campaigns that promote new awareness of disability issues such as the Every Customer Counts” initiative. ... for police and staff within the justice system on equality issues Inclusion Scottish Greens will take a lead from ...
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 - ...
SEND policy must be co-produced with parents – DR UK
15 July 2021 | News
Children’s Minister Vicky Ford MP has said that existing legal entitlements for children and young people with SEND are under review, as part of the ... – not only bringing into focus the many generational problems facing young people, but multiplying and ...
New DWP scheme may enable claimants to get refund of already paid back Universal Credit hardship payments
11 January 2023 | News
... paid back Universal Credit hardship payments. The deadline to apply is 19 June 2023. Who is eligible? Hardship ... paid to Universal Credit claimants when they are sanctioned and most of the time must be paid back. Usually, hardship ... member and/or making the repayments caused them financial problems. The DWP will need evidence of this, and more ...