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Labour will guarantee Disabled people moving into work a return to benefits without the need for reassessment
11 January 2023 | News
... be arduous, lengthy and stressful. “Many people with ill health simply do not want to risk having to go through the ... system is increasing poverty and worsening mental health’ Labour will guarantee Disabled people moving into ...
Coronavirus: DR UK CEO writes to Disability and Care Ministers
15 March 2020 | News
... Rt Hon Justin Tomlinson MP, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, and the Rt Hon Helen Whately MP, Minister ... about safeguarding disabled people, people with long-term health conditions and older people in relation to COVID-19 ... the lives of disabled people, people with long-term health conditions and older people. We are requesting the ...
Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) Statement on the parliamentary vote on Winter Fuel Payments
09 September 2024 | News
... forced to switch off heating or deciding not to charge health-related or mobility equipment. The withdrawal of the ... will not only drive people into greater poverty and ill health but will result in higher levels of winter deaths. ... heat their homes and power essential equipment needed for health and mobility. It will drive an increase in poverty ...
Government must halt ‘managed migration’ to universal credit, charities UK wide demand
05 May 2022 | News
... 2.6 million claimants, including 700,000 people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and dementia ... UC for the first time showed that of people with long-term health conditions: 24% could not register a claim online ... managed migration plans could leave people with mental health problems with no income. Those too unwell to engage ...
DWP responds to Coroner’s Prevention of Death notice following tragic death of Philippa Day
31 May 2021 | News
... of insulin as a result of stresses including mental health problems and a growing sense of failure However, the ... DWP to consider and address three areas of concern: Mental health training for DWP call handlers The Inquest heard that ... to the POD notice that includes the following: Mental health awareness training “We recognise the need to treat ...
Scrap the Coronavirus Act provisions
24 September 2020 | News
... the rights of disabled people to care, education and mental health protections. No other group of people had their ... Tanni Grey-Thompson, has asked the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, to restore Care Act ... up two thirds of all Coronavirus deaths and people with health conditions have been the hardest hit. Seven in ten ...
Read our submission on UC natural migration
18 February 2019 | News
... with lived experience across the spectrum of disability and health conditions, including mental health conditions, learning disabilities, dementia and ... of people claiming universal credit reported a ‘long-term health condition’ according to the DWP’s Universal ...
EHRC imposes legally binding action plan on the DWP to improve its treatment of disabled benefit claimants
24 April 2022 | News
... serious concerns about its treatment of people with mental health impairments and learning disabilities. Disability ... adjustments to its processes for people with mental health conditions and learning difficulties, as required ... an action plan to meet the needs of customers with mental health impairments and learning disabilities. This ...
Atos, Capita, and Maximus PIP and WCA assessment contracts increased by up to two years
12 July 2020 | News
... assessments are to be extended for up to two years. The healthcare providers for PIP assessments are Atos and Capita, with Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (Maximus) provides work ... to Parliament on the DWP’s plans and progress, under the Health Transformation Programme , to reform assessment ...
Dramatic fall in numbers placed in ESA support group
25 September 2016 | News
... descriptor scheme. In addition, there has been no healthcare professional or decision-maker guidance ... ESA regulation 35 (substantial risk to physical or mental health if found not to have a have a limited capability for ... of the stricter WCA? – he concludes: “The guide to healthcare professionals notes that “ the Revised ...