disability
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Disability and working age benefits will rise by 5.2% next year, the Chancellor has announced.
29 November 2011
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1 min read
Income Protection
Disability charities are horrified at government plans to cut employment and support allowance (ESA) during appeals.
18 October 2011
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2 min read
Income Protection
Fifty charities have hit out at the government for using ‘dangerously misleading' benefit claims statistics that are contributing to hatred towards disabled people.
01 August 2011
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2 min read
Income Protection
Disability rights campaigners have hit out at a report by MPs which concluded the process used to decide claimants' eligibility for benefits is working well.
27 July 2011
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3 min read
Income Protection
Disabled people receiving the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will be subject to regular reassessments and the majority of cases will be fixed-term payments.
04 April 2011
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2 min read
Income Protection
Unum has warned that the Welfare Reform Bill will mean benefits are harder to come by while the Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB) claims reforms are unfair to the sick.
18 February 2011
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2 min read
Income Protection
Disability campaigners have hit back at government plans that will see banks pay less than disabled people to cut the national deficit.
17 February 2011
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2 min read
Individual Protection
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) will be renamed Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and a consultation has been launched into its overhaul on a social rather than medical basis.
06 December 2010
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3 min read
Underwriting
My client, Sarah, is a 43-year-old office administrator and single mother whose daughter, Jane, has severe spina bifida.
16 June 2010
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3 min read
