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Profound lack of trust in the benefit health assessment system still a constant theme, say MPs
18 April 2023 | News
The health assessments system to access benefits for those who ... cannot work or face extra costs due to disability or ill-health continues to let down those who rely on it, a new ... on other services, such as the NHS, who feed into the health assessments process. In addition, the MPs say that ...
Minister confirms testing of an new severe disability group for health and disability benefit receipt
12 September 2023 | News
... new initiatives to make it easier to apply for and receive health and disability benefits.” This includes he said, ... policy will be tested on a small scale across a range of health conditions the criteria used for the severe ... group will be based on the impact of a disability or health condition the DWP is looking at those that are ...
Improved protections against forced fitting of pre-payment meters
19 April 2023 | News
... of Prepayment meters (PPMs) for people with severe health conditions including terminal illness, those over 85, people with health conditions that worsen in the cold and those with health related equipment. The new voluntary code follows the ...
Health of Millions at risk as Universal Credit Falls So Far Short of the Cost of Essentials
29 August 2023 | News
Organisations representing hundreds of thousands of health and care professionals, and the millions who use ... live on. They say this poses a serious risk to the UK’s health. In a letter to the Prime Minister, the Academy of ... being able to afford enough food and other essential items, health and care practitioners say they see people forced to ...
Disability Poverty Campaign Group respond to the PM Rishi Sunak
19 April 2024 | News
... again to demonise Disabled people and those with long-term health conditions, by announcing plans to make them seek ... at the cost of their already fragile physical and mental health. In his speech today the prime minister announced a ... support the extra cost of living with a disability or ill health. He also accused the UK of having a “sicknote ...
People with longstanding mental health problems more than twice as likely to be in poverty
20 June 2018 | News
Poor health, living standards and poverty 2018 : Institute for ... Among 25-54 year-olds, 28% of those with a longstanding health problem, and 40% of those with a mental health problem, are in relative poverty (i.e. they have an ...
NHS Trusts less likely to review deaths of patients with a mental health or learning disability
12 December 2016 | News
... NHS England's commissioned review looked at all mental health and learning disability deaths at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust between April 2011 and March ... a learning disability and older people receiving mental health care were far less likely to have their deaths ...
DR UK questions the need for the new Health and Work Conversation to be mandatory
16 July 2017 | News
DWP FOI responses give fuller picture of mandatory Health and Work Conversation. Following Freedom of ... internal documents that give a fuller picture of its new Health and Work Conversation (HWC) initiative. Launched in ... “ This mandatory conversation supports claimants with health conditions and disabilities, it allows the claimant ...
Jobcentres 20% Understaffed, Leading To Overwork and An Epidemic Of Poor Mental Health Among Staff
19 January 2024 | News
... and this was the worst it has gotten. It worsened my mental health to the point of severe burnout, with constant ... crisis in DWP is creating an epidemic of mental ill health amongst staff and failing to protect the most ... Leading To Overwork and An Epidemic Of Poor Mental Health Among Staff ...
Our submission to the Work and Welfare Reform Bill scrutiny committee
22 October 2015 | News
... between October 2013 and September 2014 had mental health problems. Similarly, more than 60% of the ESA ... 3.4.15 In his major 24 August speech on work, health and disability, the Secretary of State for Work and ... and unemployed people: the former receive non-means-tested insurance payments for life; the latter have only six ...