A list of the proposed benefit rates and pension rates for 2022 to 2023.
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Dec
Dec
Looks at the rules on the ‘normal minimum pension age’, which is the earliest age from which individuals can access workplace or personal pensions, and measures in the Finance (No. 2) Bill to increase it from 55 to 57 from 2028
13
Dec
Dec
Universal Credit is a monthly payment to help with your living costs. You may be able to get it if you’re on a low income, out of work or unable to work.
Your monthly payment is based on your circumstances, for example, your earnings or household income, housing costs and any health condition or disability you may have.
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Dec
Dec
Universal credit (UC) is paid monthly in arrears. This means UC recipients have their earned income assessed at the end of every monthly ‘assessment period’ to calculate their UC payment. Monthly assessment periods create challenges for working UC claimants who are not paid on exactly the same date each month. Two in five jobs paying less than £200 a week (£10,400 a year) are not paid on a monthly basis.
11
Dec
Dec
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children: A playlist with information videos on an overview of the benefit, how to make a claim, after you have claimed and when a child turns 16.
10
Dec
Dec
An overview of the regulation of supported exempt accommodation and calls for increased oversight, improved funding, and better standards of support provision.
10
Dec
Dec
This briefing provides information on the Government’s proposals for adult social care reform, including the cap on care costs.
10
Dec
Dec
3 December 2021 is the International Day of People with Disabilities. Edward Scott explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on people with disabilities in the UK, including issues concerning access to services and the economic impact of the pandemic. This article also summarises the Government’s recent proposals for reform to benefits and employment support for people with disabilities.
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Dec
Dec
Rough sleepers will be helped into safe and warm accommodation and treatment services for drug and alcohol dependency this winter, supported by an extra £66 million the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities announced
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Dec
Dec
The Conservative Party manifesto for the 2019 general election pledged that finding a cure for dementia would be one of the Government’s biggest priorities. To this end, the manifesto committed to doubling dementia research funding and speeding up trials for new treatments. In a report published in September 2021, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia made a central recommendation that the Government should implement its funding pledge as soon as possible.