Tag: Disability
Disability benefit system unsustainable and needs change, says government
Disability payments that help with extra living costs could be scrapped in favour of more tailored support as the government looks at overhauling the [...]
Disability and illness benefit changes proposed
The government says it hopes new work capability assessments reforms will come into force by 2025.
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Ministers skip UN meeting on disability rights
The UK government says it will present its progress on disability rights to the UN in 2024 instead.
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Government overturns ruling on disability strategy
The Court of Appeal rules the High Court was wrong to find the government had acted unlawfully.
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Disability work tests to be scrapped in welfare shake-up
Jeremy Hunt says claimants will be able to seek work "without fear of losing financial support".
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Disability activist felt 'dehumanised' after No 10 Downing Street ramp failure
Sam Jennings was invited to Downing Street after her accessibility campaigning - but couldn't knock on the door.
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Long Covid patients share their struggle with disability coverage
Michael Bryand, 35, first got Covid in September 2020. "I never really got better," he said in a sit-down interview with CNBC."I had symptoms that sta [...]
SC favours disability pension forex-jawan with alcohol dependency | Latest News India
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the army to take a sympathetic view of a discharged soldier receiving disability pension due to alcohol dependency, [...]
£1.6bn incapacity plan goals to deal with inequalities
The technique outlines key pledges to enhance the lives of disabled folks however critics say it would not go far sufficient.
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Biden says some qualify for federal incapacity assets
U.S. President Joe Biden indicators a proclamation on the anniversary of the People with Disabilities Act (ADA), as (L-R) artist Tyree Brown, Sen. [...]
Walmart loses EEOC incapacity discrimination lawsuit
Buyers stroll in entrance of a Walmart retailer in San Leandro, California, U.S., on Thursday, Might 13, 2021.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty [...]
Most courts are closed attributable to coronavirus — however not incapacity and immigration
Whereas courts across the nation and shutting down due to Covid-19 fears, the Social Safety Administration continues to be requiring in-person i [...]
DWP says it’s ‘shocked’ by its personal incapacity tribunal file
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Social Safety Incapacity Insurance coverage: Disabled staff are getting jobs, because of an improved economic system
A characteristic of the Nice Recession was a cottage business of explanations for why folks weren't simply out of labor, however dropping out of [...]
Joe Biden is the one frontrunner and not using a incapacity plan
In a good Democratic major race, incapacity rights has emerged as a leading issue. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, entrepreneur Andrew [...]