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The paper also takes the opportunity to restate Labour’s manifesto pledges for the health service. It highlights the plans to provide an extra £22.6 billion in 2025/26 to support the delivery ...
DWP also administers State Pension, Pension Credit, disability benefits such as Personal Independence Payment, and support for life events from Maternity Allowance to bereavement benefits. Non-departmental bodies accountable to DWP include the Health and Safety Executive, The Pensions Regulator and the Money and Pensions Service.
In February 2005, the Welfare Secretary Alan Johnson announced plans to replace Incapacity Benefit with two new benefits: "Disability and Sickness Allowance", for people deemed too ill to work; and "Rehabilitation Support Allowance", paid at the same rate as Jobseekers Allowance to less disabled people, who would be supported by the DWP back ...
The Cancer Policy Institute has initiatives, [26] training opportunities, learning materials, [27] and events. CSC's Grassroots Advocacy Network is open to anyone to join. The network provides a place to learn more about key issues that are important to cancer patients and their loved ones, and make one's voice heard at a local and national level.
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Labour is pushing ahead with plans to merge two benefits claimed by millions in the UK. Under plans by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), pension credit and housing benefit will soon be ...
PIP was introduced by the Welfare Reform Act 2012 and the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013 (which have been repeatedly amended). It began to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for new claims from 8 April 2013, by means of an initial pilot in selected areas of north-west and north-east England.
Benefits for all claimants will see an annual increase of 1.7 per cent in April as they uprate in line with inflation. The DWP has announced no changes to the Christmas bonus.