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End the “Persecution” of Unpaid Carers Says DR UK
09 April 2024 | News
Those who claim carer’s allowance, currently £81.90 per week, while working part-time are being forced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to pay back money that has been erroneously overpaid to them, in some cases running to more than £20,000, or risk going to prison.
Carer’s allowance is paid to those who provide at least 35 hours of unpaid care a week to look after, in the main, Disabled relatives.
Govt no action on WCA mental health case
19 January 2014 | News
... judgment does not change this direction. It will be business as usual for DWP Operations. Individuals will apply ...
High Court finds DWP unlawfully refused Universal Credit to disabled students for seven years - only for Secretary of State to change the law to bar them again
11 November 2020 | News
A newly published High Court judgment has shown that, between 2013 and 2020, thousands of disabled students were unlawfully barred from claiming Universal Credit for essential living costs benefit.
This is because the Court found that the Government had adopted an unlawful policy of rejecting their claims without conducting work capability assessments.
One of those two students who took the judicial review action was Sidra Kauser, a visually impaired masters student in York. The other was JL (a disabled student whose identity was anonymised by the Court).
DWP ignored coroner’s call to take action to save claimants from suicide
19 July 2020 | News
The DWP rejected a coroner’s call to act to prevent benefit claimants taking their own lives, following the suicide of a young woman who had told her work coach that she intended to kill herself.
Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show that DWP dismissed both the coroner’s plea to take action, and the findings of an inquest jury which had concluded that a jobcentre’s failings had contributed to the death of 31-year-old Faiza Ahmed from Limehouse, east London.
The Budget: Too little on Universal Credit and nothing on social care
21 November 2017 | News
Disability Rights UK welcomes the removal of the Universal Credit waiting period. But it is an inadequate solution that will still leave people waiting up to 5 weeks for their first actual payment.
Every claimant should be able to receive fortnightly payments as of right, and not have to apply for a loan for money that they qualify for.
Disabled people need more fundamental change. Additional support available with Employment and Support Allowance is not available with Universal Credit - leaving some disabled people nearly £4,500 per year worse off.
Best of British Diversity Honoured at National Diversity Awards
24 September 2015 | News
... – positive role models, community organisations and businesses from the LGBT, ethnic minority, age, gender, ...
Then Barbara Met Alan: review by Anna Morell
17 November 2023 | News
... time up the wall – a move designed to protect big business from the expense of implementing equity. A move ...
A Life Without Limits by Sir Bert Massie - DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick's Book review
17 November 2023 | News
... operator but he earned extra cash on the side by starting a business making headed paper. He got the sack for ...
Try Describing YOUR Sight - Madeline Close
10 April 2024 | News
Why, when a complete stranger helps you across the road, do they think they can ask you about your health? Apparently, GDPR doesn’t apply to good deeds...
Once, at the end of a lengthy tour of Auschwitz concentration camp, an English man turned to me and said, “RP?”
I snapped back “No!”
Our briefing on Careers guidance: Govt action plan
02 October 2013 | News
... continue to work closely with Departments for Education and Business Innovation and Skills to ensure that new guidance ...