Sentences with phrase «benefits disabled people»

This is feeding the demonisation of people on benefits Disabled people have already suffered the most under this government's cuts to social security — with the failed Work Capability Assessment for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), the cuts to Disability Living Allowance (DLA), the closure of Remploy and the forthcoming abolition of the Independent Living Fund.

Although research that may, in the long term, benefit disabled people — genetics or stem cell research for example — is often in the headlines, disabled people who are themselves scientists tend to have a much lower profile.

Not exact matches

A special needs trust lets parents, other family members and other interested parties contribute funds for the benefit of a disabled person, while also enabling him or her to still receive means - tested benefits such as Medicaid and Security Supplemental Income (SSI).

How to set up a special needs trust, which allows people to fund care for disabled loved ones without endangering means - tested benefits.

The COLA also affects benefits for about 4 million disabled veterans, 2.5 million federal retirees and their survivors, and more than 8 million people who get Supplemental Security Income, the disability program for the poor.

Those who could face the greatest retirement year challenges, according to the report, include the disabled, widowed, divorced, long - term unemployed and people employed in industries or jobs that typically do not provide retirement benefits.

The program was and still is designed to serve as a financial safety net for retirees and those receiving benefits as a surviving spouse, surviving dependent child or as a person who is permanently and totally disabled.

The event benefits Community Residences Inc., a non-profit provider of programs and services for people who are developmentally and physically disabled, as well as the homeless and those with mental illnesses.

If psychologists could help people expand their working - memory capacity or make it function more efficiently, everyone could benefit, from chess masters to learning - disabled children, says Torkel Klingberg, MD, PhD, an assistant cognitive neuroscience professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

Would Lord Freud have been able to swing the axe on disability benefits if he hadn't created the image of disabled people as a «bulge of, effectively, stock»?

Nevertheless, as a society we have pressed ahead with changes to the benefits system which put great pressure on sick and disabled people to get into jobs.

This rights - based development is closely tied to the development of social security — disabled people were not properly considered during the initial forming of the welfare state because a paternalistic society believed them to be cared for in institutions and so there was no such thing as a «disability benefit».

No job, Cuts in benefits to real disabled people, I'm paraplegic and i will be getting ESA this year, which will be # 12 a week lower.

Holyrood will get the powers to run the benefits system for older people, carers and the disabled and can even create new benefits in devolved areas, but it won't get the chance to change welfare for in - work poverty.

Claim: Cutting benefits of the sick and disabled would spur more people into work.

I know a lot of people would rather see the disabled gassed and I'm not talking about the frauds or the cheats, but like it or not many young lads from the military will struggle to cope on benefits I know I do.

Since the Spending Review of 2010 The Centre for Welfare Reform has tried to understand the overall impact of the cuts, changes to the benefit system and other social policy impacts on disabled people and people in poverty.

Examples would include housing benefit and attendance allowance, which is paid to disabled people aged 65 or over who need help with personal care.

The potential value that can come from a disabled person's perspective, say on legislation ranging from social care charging to welfare benefit, is incalculable.

Medicare on the other hand, is a supplementary insurance program for elderly and disabled people receiving Social Security benefits.

You may have heard that Guide Dogs, along with over 40 other organisations and groups of disabled people are supporting a March, a Lobby of Parliament and a Rally on the 11th May to voice anger and concern at the cuts threatening benefits, services, jobs and rights.

Tax breaks for people with domestic staff is a great way to use money saved by cutting disabled people's benefits!

What the public is really desperate to hear from Labour is that it will take a stand against at least the worst of the Tory attacks on people's living standards, e.g. reverse the iniquitous bedroom tax and call a halt to the callous stripping of seriously disabled people of their benefits on the utterly spurious grounds under the Atos farcical assessments that they are fit for work.

Mark Harper, the minister for disabled people, will appear in front of the work and pensions select committee on Wednesday today to defend the government's troubled record on implementation of the new disability benefit, the personal independence payment (PIP).

Everything we do is aimed at improving the tax and benefits experience of low income workers, pensioners, migrants, students, disabled people and carers.

However, the Department of Work and Pensions said the switch will benefit sick and disabled persons, allowing them to improve their wellbeing, ability, and search for employment.

The economist will cite statistics that indicate only a quarter of people with mental illness go into treatment - and that it accounts for half of all sick days off and for almost half of all disabled people on incapacity benefit.

Linda Burnip of Disabled People Against Cuts says: «Ministers are literally killing us with their savage and unjust cuts to housing, disability and other benefits.

Over the next four years many disabled people will see a reduction in the overall value of their benefits, as well as specific reductions in the levels of housing benefit; unemployment benefit; the loss of disability living allowance (DLA), which contributes towards the - often significant - extra costs of living as a disabled person; as well as reduced access to social care services as a consequence of local government funding cuts.

Incapacity benefit reform is not addressing the underlying question: Are disabled people avoiding work or are companies unwilling to employ them?

Under the government's new system the vast majority of the two - and - a-half million disabled people currently on incapacity benefit will be reassessed and found officially «fit for work» with barely a nod to the social, financial and practical barriers they face in finding and keeping a job in the real world.

It may shock many readers to learn that more than # 13 billion of taxpayer's money is spent on sickness and incapacity benefits for people of working age, as pointed out by minister for disabled people Mike Penning this week.

MTD is capable of delivering benefits over the years to come, but there is a risk that many disabled people in business will suffer a real burden if they find they are mandated not only to transact with HMRC digitally, but also to keep records in a prescribed digital format.

What about the message this sends out to the public only a week after the passing of the controversial and feared welfare reform bill set to remove benefits from over half a million genuinely sick and disabled people?

The benefit system in the UK is set for an overhaul, in an effort to get one million sick or disabled people back into work.

Its response goes on to highlight some particular difficulties faced by disabled people and employers in the tax and related benefits system and makes recommendations as to how to remove those barriers.

In 2013, two years before the election, top rate taxpayers will lose their child benefit and the first sick and disabled people will lose their employment support allowance under the time limit introduced 12 months earlier.

Labour is calling for the cut in capital gains tax (CGT) to be scrapped, saying it would give investors already making money about the same, on average, as the government had planned to take from disabled people under changes to benefits.

Housing benefit cuts in April will particularly impact on pensioners, families on low incomes, disabled people (many already traumatised by Atos assessments of their alleged capability for work), the long - term sick, -LSB-...]

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: «This exercise is just about saving money by bullying people who are sick or disabled onto lower levels of benefit.

The benefits of taking action to encourage more older and disabled people to use apps to improve their public transport experience are highlighted in a report published today.

But more importantly the study also shows how cuts to a host of benefits including disability living allowance (DLA), employment and support allowance (ESA), housing benefit and the «bedroom tax» are hitting the same group of disabled people over and over again.

Zac Goldsmith was criticised by Richmond AID earlier this month when he backed slashing # 30 - a-week from disabled people claiming Employment Support Allowance — despite warnings from charities that the benefit already barely covers basic living costs.

Mentally Disabled Veterans and Guns — Vote Passed (240 - 175, 14 Not Voting) The bill would clarify the conditions under which individuals who receive federal benefits from the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) may be declared mentally incompetent for purposes of being added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and thereby prevented from purchasing guns or ammunition — requiring that an affirmative declaration be made by a judge that the person is dangerous.

Even its longtime work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, eventually broke ranks and resigned after a budget that proposed still further cuts to disabled people's benefits.

Senior MPs have called on the government to explain an apparent spike in people being turned down for personal independence payment (PIP), which is a top - up benefit with two components related to the extra costs of daily living and limited mobility for disabled people.

Getting most able persons off state benefits will then ensure taxpayers can provide generously for the genuinely needy amongst the old, sick and disabled.

The looming climbdown comes with the Government facing a crushing defeat in Parliament over the plan to strip 370,00 disabled people of # 3,500 - a-year in vital benefits.

The petition says: «The Government has its targets set on the disabled, looking to slash the disability benefit bill by reducing Personal Independence Payments drastically for hundreds of people and replacing some with vouchers.

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has taken the wraps off a new savings plan for disabled people that allows them to save money without affecting their eligibility for benefits.