...importantly, for most, living independently is simply a matter of playing the cards life has dealt them as best they can. Secondly, most young people we met appreciate the support...
...appropriate time. For example, moving the assessment and payment of New Style Jobseeker’s Allowance to a monthly basis would help it operate better in cases where the claimant is also...
...It’s an interesting phrase that. It conjures an image of late teens or early twenty-somethings, perhaps graduates or young apprentices who have successfully transitioned from living at home with parents...
...a job or earn more, which includes looking for jobs, applying for jobs and going to interviews. It applies to those who are not currently working and to those in...
...system and ensuring they received their correct entitlement - a process which often involved supporting them to appeal at the First-tier Tribunal (and occasionally beyond). In 2014 I moved to...
...that DWP should develop a more rigorous approach to ensure discretion is applied fairly and systematically. What next? Becoming disabled - or a change in an existing condition - can...
The end of my time as Chair of SSAC is now rapidly approaching – I stand down at the end of July. But this week’s meeting (June 20) of the...
...Grant). To strengthen accountability, a Charter has been approved by Holyrood, having been developed by a core group of people drawn from Experience Panels working with officials. This is a...
...when I was appointed as the Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) representative on ethnic minorities. This role allows me to ensure that SSAC’s advice is informed by my own lived...
...a pre-determined plan through to fully co-producing work) the particular involvement approaches sat. This could cause confused expectations. The Department could do more to ‘close the loop’ and ensure people...