Tory Zac Goldsmith forced out as disability charity patron after voting for ESA cuts
Tory Zac Goldsmith has been forced to resign in shame as patron of a disability charity after he voted for cruel disability cuts.
3 Apr 2016
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Benefit scrounger…………….Yeah Right
Running your own business is a lot of work because you have to do a lot of admin as well as the actual job. Also there's meetings with potential clients, marketing, etc … the list goes on. So me and #raspberrytalk are not what some people call "work shy", we are both far from it. Before we ran our own business I worked as a sales assistant and #raspberrytalk was a Senior Store Designer for Sainsbury's. Both my job and #raspberrytalk's could mean long hours and sometimes for #raspberrytalk it meant days, even weeks, away from home.
3 Apr 2016
Pensioner left too frightened to get bus after drivers' actions on 'upsetting' journey
An elderly former headteacher today said she was left "too frightened" to use public transport after three upsetting ordeals on London buses in just one evening.
1 Apr 2016
Autism woman wins benefit battle with
A YOUNG disabled woman has won her benefits back in an appeal after the Department for Work and Pensions' decision to slash her money forced her to turn to food banks and crisis loans for survival.
1 Apr 2016
Decisions not to award PIP indefinitely or for a longer period can be appealed - See more at: http://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/2016/march/decisions-not-award-pip-indefinitely-or-longer-period-can-be-appealed#sthash.5Dz6E2QK.dpuf
An important new Upper Tribunal judgment has clarified the legal framework for deciding whether a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) award should be an indefinite award or for a fixed term. The judgment can be used by those disabled people who feel that they should be made an indefinite award of PIP as their daily living and/or mobility problems are unlikely to diminish. It can also be used by those disabled people who feel that they should have been made a longer fixed term PIP award again because their daily living and/or mobility problems are likely be more long standing. In UK/5459/2014, Upper Tribunal Judge Mitchell holds that the Welfare Reform Act 2012 provides a qualified requirement that PIP awards are to be for a fixed term. The statutory qualification to the requirement for fixed term awards is that a fixed term award would be "inappropriate". In deciding whether a fixed term would be inappropriate, a key consideration is the likely persistence of an individual's limiting conditions. A factor in f
1 Apr 2016
The new mobility scooter driving test
The government is to introduce a new mobility scooter driving test following a number of serious incidents on the public highway and inside retail shop premises. The new driving test will become mandatory on 1st January 2018 and will apply for all drivers of battery powered mobility scooters, irrespective of vehicle weight, speed rating or size.
29 Mar 2016