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  • 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 ...

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  • 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. ...

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  • 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 - ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • Disabled adults face some of the highest risks of poverty and Universal Credit must be redesigned, says Institute of Health Equity

    26 February 2020 | News

    ... Credit (UC) pushes many families who may already be in crisis into debt, rent arrears and serious hardship, says the Institute of Health Equity ... disabled adults face some of the highest risks of poverty: nearly half of those in poverty in the UK in 2018 – 6.9 ...

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  • Report demands better back to work support

    11 June 2014 | News

     Fulfilling Potential? ESA and the fate of the Work Related Activity ... to back-to-work support for people with mental health problems. Disability Rights UK has endorsed this report. The ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • Snap election denies Disabled candidates additional support

    03 June 2024 | News

    A Government fund to enable Disabled candidates to stand for elected office will not be reinstated in time for the General Election. A funding scheme ... and administered by Disability Rights UK, was closed in early 2020. The Government’s Disability Action Plan ...

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