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DWP NHS Talking Therapies strategy for pushing people with mental distress and ill-health into paid employment will not work
03 January 2025 | News
... strategy for pushing people with mental distress and ill-health into paid work has only a tiny impact on the ... Government figures have shown. Disabled people’s mental health groups say the figures destroy the government’s case for “using mental health interventions as a stick to enforce work” and have ...
New style employment and support allowance
23 April 2025 | Resource
... allowance into a single contributory 'unemployment insurance' benefit in 2028/29. This will be paid at the same ... can be placed on this if you have a disability or health condition. These plans are open to consultation . ... 'new style' ESA if your ability to work is limited by ill health or disability. You must: be aged 16 or over; be ...
How Much Do I Pay My Personal Assistant?
15 April 2025 | Resource
... you will need to ask your local authority worker (or your health care worker) for a review of your needs or request ... costs, payroll service and employer’s liability insurance. Also check with your local authority worker or health care professional whether there is support available ...
New JRF report: Unlocking benefits -Tackling barriers for Disabled people wanting to work
14 November 2024 | News
... several reforms to work-related disability benefits (health-related universal credit (UC) and employment and ... also analysed levels of hardship amongst people receiving health-related UC. Key findings The Government has committed to £3 billion in cuts to health/disability benefits. However, the JRF says that ...
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
... rent arrears and serious hardship, says the Institute of Health Equity (IHE) In 'Health Equity in England: The Marmot review 10 years on', the IHE explores what has happened to health inequalities and social determinants of health in the ...
Preventing Illegal Working
07 October 2022 | Resource
... official document giving the person’s permanent National Insurance number and their name issued by a Government ... official document giving the person’s permanent National Insurance number and their name issued by a Government ... person who does not right of abode in the UK. The National Health Service will not provide any medical facilities to ...
Public Reject Benefit Cuts and Believe They Will Increase Pressure on NHS, New Polling Finds
26 June 2025 | News
... reforms. The polling results display the stark public health implications of the cuts, with 45% of benefits recipients expecting themselves to be less healthy if their benefits were reduced or removed. This new polling shows the potential knock-on effects for public health: 47% of respondents believe that changes to the ...
DR UK Response To Fit Note Reform Consultation
22 July 2024 | News
... of the fit note process to support those with long term health conditions “to access timely work and health support”. Although the consultation has now closed, ... note culture” . Instead of fit notes only being issued by health care professionals who know and are treating the ...
Tens of thousands of claimants with mental health problems at “real risk” of losing their benefits due to “managed migration” to universal credit
26 September 2022 | News
... than 850,000 of these claimants are known to have a mental health problem. Many thousands more are struggling with their mental health but potentially undiagnosed - all of whom will be ... migration’. In a new report, the Money and Mental Health Institute (MMHI) warns that there is a real risk that ...
More than half of the UK population living in destitution are in long term ill health or are disabled people: new JRF research
08 December 2020 | News
... (54%) living in destitution were in long term ill health or disabled with COVID-19-associated delays in the ... claims and appeals had a detrimental effect on the mental health and material wellbeing of people in receipt of or ... for these benefits. The loss of face-to-face contact with health and other services often hit participants with mental ...