Cost of living payment 2024: Where to get help now the scheme is over Strike dates 2023: From train drivers to NHS doctors, here are the dates to know 4. Strike dates 2023: From train drivers to NHS doctors, here are the dates to know...
There will be a total of £900 for those on means-tested benefits, paid in three instalments of about £300 each in spring 2023, autumn 2023 and spring 2024; a £300 pensioner payment in winter 2023-24; and a £150 payment for those on disability benefits this summer. Those eli...
Atos and Capita are both likely to be among companies bidding for a share of £2.8 billion to carry out health and disability benefit assessments across five areas of the UK over five years from April 2024*, in a long-delayed process that is likely to see the new providers an...
Most of the successful bidders forfive regional contractsto provide work capability assessments (WCAs) and assessments for personal independence payment (PIP)were awarded three months ago. Together, the contracts will be worth more than two billion pounds over the five years from 2024 to ...
It made it clear that the introduction of universal credit in 2013 – combining six working-age benefits into a single monthly payment through a “digital interface” – had presented “more acute challenges for some vulnerable claimants”. ...
In their letter to MPs, which will accompany the book, they will tell them: “It is certain that the new government will be announcing reforms to personal independence payment, benefit sanctions, universal credit and the work capability assessment in the coming months. ...