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Injury Benefit and Disablement Benefit may be payable to people disabled as a result of an accident at work or a prescribed disease contracted at work. Disability Allowance is payable to disabled people over 16 and under 66 years of age. The disability must have continued, or be expected to continue, for at least 12 months.
Approximately 33,000 full-time carers qualify for the Carers Allowance from the government. This Allowance is means tested. The government has committed to developing a National Carers Strategy by the middle of 2008. [3] The Carers Association was the subject of a chapter-length study in Care Work: The Quest for Security. [4]
Carer's Allowance is a non-contributory benefit in the United Kingdom payable to people who care for a disabled person for at least 35 hours a week. It was first established as Invalid Care Allowance [ 1 ] in 1976, and married women were not eligible.
The Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 49: The Health and Social Care Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 50: The Health and Social Care Pension Schemes (Partial Retirement etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 51
The act gives carers new rights to information – section 1 of the act places a duty on local authorities to inform carers of their right to a Carers Assessment. Ensures that work, lifelong learning and leisure are considered when a carer is assessed – section 2 means that when a Carer's Assessment is being completed it must take into ...
The basic vacation allowance is a minimum of four weeks per calendar year and there are 13 paid public holidays. [54] [55] [56] Many employers give one week extra (so the total is five weeks of paid annual leave) as a bonus. Public holidays which happen on Saturday or Sunday are lost for the particular year – thus the average number of public ...
The Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004 (c. 15) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom aimed at helping carers achieve fair access to training, work and leisure opportunities.
PIP was introduced by the Welfare Reform Act 2012 and the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013 (which have been repeatedly amended). It began to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for new claims from 8 April 2013, by means of an initial pilot in selected areas of north-west and north-east England.