Blind Jobseeker Wears Shirt Saying ‘I Need A Job’ To Remploy For Meeting
A BLIND jobseeker was ordered to turn inside-out a homemade T-shirt emblazoned with a plea for work at a job session. Andrew...
6 Aug 2013
A BLIND jobseeker was ordered to turn inside-out a homemade T-shirt emblazoned with a plea for work at a job session. Andrew...
A minor little campaign victory achieved at NDCS the other week: the Department for Work andPensions (DWP) accepted that deaf people should not be forced to use the phone to make a claim for the new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) benefit.
Following the independent Triennial Review of Equality 2025 and the
Continuing their series on the Coalition's secret cuts, Kate Belgrave and Alan White investigate the problems arising from outsourced face-to-face assessments. Does the DWP even know what its policy on recording PIP face-to-face assessments is? And why can't people with hearing impairments get video recordings of assessments?
Gemma Roulston 17 July 18:49 Please folk, if you get mobility component of DLA, and will therefore be affected by the introduction of PIP and the limit of 20m unaided (that is without walking frame, walking stick, wheelchair etc. ) - do not forget to participate in the consultation on the mobility component of PIP. You have until the 3/8/13 - the consultation period is about 6 weeks instead of the standard 12. If that was our pressure to reduce it, why?
The DWP have published a consultation on Working with People with Disabilities