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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Social care cuts to continue despite £2 billion boost
27 June 2017 | News
Cuts to social care will continue this year despite ministers putting in an extra £2 ... priority, rather than just 'papering over the cracks'. Thousands of disabled people who rely on care support are ... needs of younger adults with disabilities or mental health problems are greater than those due to supporting older ...
Changes in UC transitional protection rules for those on or who lost severe disability premium
06 June 2018 | News
... Read HCWS745 More about universal credit Universal credit and disability In this statement, made by Esther McVey (The Secretary of ... For further information on welfare rights, education issues and social care you will find our factsheets/guides ...
Bedroom tax exemption consultation: Our response
17 October 2013 | News
... to the Social Security Advisory Committee on the Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria)(Miscellaneous ... does still need to be taken into consideration. (3) Sleep problems Children with a visual impairment are known to have ...
Over 80,000 Disabled teenagers are locked out of their own Child Trust Funds
31 July 2023 | News
... by the BBC show that over 80,000 Disabled young people in England and Wales will miss out on Child Trust Fund savings worth nearly £210.000. Financial expert Martin Lewis has now also ...
Strategic partner updates August 2015
09 August 2015 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic Partner to ... up a user-led consortium as one of 22 strategic partners in the voluntary sector. Our name is ‘Win-Win Alliance – ... of trustees and senior management teams and the potential problems where trustees become too closely involved in ...