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Disability Benefits – what help is available?
WAMES Benefits Info Sheet A new Info Sheet from WAMES will help you find information on the different benefits and help available to people who are ill, or caring for someone who is ill. Included in the sheet are … Continue reading
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WAMES & 100+ organisations call for urgent Covid-19 changes to the Benefits system
DBC letter to Secretary of State on emergency Covid-19 measures 30th March 2020 The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC), a network of over 100 organisations, have written an open letter (below) to Thérèse Coffey, Secretary of State for Work and … Continue reading
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DBC Universal Credit survey – your experiences needed
Universal Credit survey launched! October 31, 2018 The Disability Benefits Consortium has launched a Universal Credit survey #UCandme so that we can find out more about the experiences of disabled people and people with long term health conditions. [WAMES is a … Continue reading
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Outcry that the UK Government continues to delay changes to PIP
Disability Rights UK blog post, 20 April 2018: DWP to decide PIP claims using unlawful and discriminatory rules until summer 2018 In December 2017, a High Court decision found that PIP mobility component regulation changes, which affected those with psychological … Continue reading
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Big Benefits Survey 2017
Big Benefits Survey 2017: The Disability Benefits Consortium (of which WAMES is a member) wants to find out more about disabled people’s experiences of applying for and getting benefits. This will help us campaign to make sure the system is fair for … Continue reading
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Take part in a survey of your experiences of benefits, WCA, getting support to work
Disability Wales request your help in responding to the DWP. That’s because the Department for Work and Pensions has produced a Green Paper, ‘Improving Lives: Work, Health and Disability’, which outlines the steps that it wants to take to halve … Continue reading
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Work capability assessment overhaul planned for disabled
BBC news article, 30 October 2016: Work capability assessment overhaul for disabled The scheme that assesses claimants of disability benefits faces a major overhaul, following claims by a charity that it is “fundamentally flawed”. A consultation on reforming the Work … Continue reading
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DWP agrees to set target for benefit underpayments
Disability Rights UK blog post, 8 Aug 2106: DWP agrees to set target for benefit underpayments The Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, Frank Field MP, has welcomed the DWP’s change of heart on a target for benefit underpayments. … Continue reading
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