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Careers Advice and Post 16 Learning Options
15 January 2025 | Resource
... adjustments 4.2 Learner support funding 4.3 Education, Health and Care (EHC Plan) 4.4 Disabled Students Allowance ... 11 to 18, or up to the age of 25 if you have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan. This should cover opportunities ... your ability to work. Eligibility is based on National Insurance contributions, not your household income or ...
UK Social Security System Is “Consciously Cruel” and “Ruining Lives” Finds Amnesty UK
28 April 2025 | News
... across our basic rights to housing, food, education, healthcare and social security. The evidence delivers ... people vulnerable to debt, food insecurity and mental health challenges. The financial hardship that follows means ... by 2029, reduce PIP awards to 800,000 claimants and reduce health-related universal credit for 3 million families by ...
Work Capability Assessment
23 April 2025 | Resource
... work capability assessment in 2028. From then on, any extra health-related support in universal credit (to replace the ... WCA if you: have a severe, lifelong disability, illness or health condition; and are unlikely to ever be able to move ... universal credit only) were already entitled to national insurance credits for limited capability for work when you ...
Ofgem issued ‘urgent’ warning by Ed Miliband
19 February 2025 | News
... high, leading to Disabled people and carers experiencing health damaging effects, during the current low ...
Hancock “100%” in favour of withdrawing funding for learning disability hub to secure lockdown vote
07 March 2023 | News
Messages leaked by Isabel Oakeshott from the former Health Secretary Matt Hancock have revealed that he ... Learning Disability Hub in Bury - whips call him up and say Health team want to work with him to deliver this but ...
One in fourteen people now on long-term sick
17 May 2023 | News
... latest data from the Office for National Statistics. Mental health distress in young people, back and neck pain and ... more people [are] outside of the labour market due to ill health." Back and neck issues are potentially being blamed ... which may not have been properly assessed for occupational health outcomes. And fatigue issues are potentially due to a ...
Charging for residential accommodation
07 October 2022 | Resource
... financial assessment. Income is net of any tax or National Insurance contributions. The regulations do not allow a ...
New benefits training course with CPAG
28 March 2023 | News
... obtain benefits when they are unable to work due to a health condition or disability. Benefit Essentials covers ... necessary to assist disabled people and/or clients with health conditions that affect their everyday lives. Book ...
Applying for Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA)
06 March 2025 | Resource
... Northern Ireland apply to Student Finance NI, including for healthcare courses. BACK TO START Who can get DSA? DSA is ... In England, from August 2017 new Nursing, midwifery and health students have access to the same student loans system ... printers and scanners radio aid for deaf students insurance or extended warranty for the equipment training in ...
“Under strain” – the real causes of the rise in working-age disability and incapacity benefits spending
26 June 2024 | News
... by an ageing population, working age people becoming less healthy and experiencing more disability, As a consequence, ... by 89 %. As a result, total annual spending on working-age health-related benefits has increased from £28 billion to ... of working-age recipients as Britain gets older, less healthy and has a higher prevalence of disability that ...