DisabilityRights UK "Ground-breaking public consultation on proposals for a better benefits system"

[JemPD]

https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/...consultation-proposals-better-benefits-system

Sorry no energy too foggy to explain what link contains perhaps someone else could do that pls?

 

[Peter T]

19 August 2020
A ground-breaking public consultation on proposals for a better UK social security system has been launched with all solutions being developed by those with direct experience of the system.

Following a call for solutions for a better benefits system which received over 1000 responses, the public are being asked what they think about the ideas.

The public consultation is being led by the Commission on Social Security – all Commissioners are Experts by Experience who have lived experience of the benefits system.

Ideas in the proposals include:

• Establishing a Guaranteed Decent Income so everyone has a secure, reasonable amount of money coming i
• Getting rid of the benefit cap
• Raising Child Benefit to £50 per child per week
• Ending zero hours contracts
• A social model approach to disability benefit

Input is invited from anyone interested in improving the benefits system: Experts by Experience, user-led groups and claimants, think tanks and charities, policy-makers and the general public. Following the public consultation, a ‘White Paper’ with policy recommendations will be drawn.

To respond to the public consultation, visit the Commission's dedicated website.

The consultation closes on 30 September 2020

If this is part of developing a White Paper, which is a stage in creating a new Act of Parliament, the UK government must have committed to following up on this consultation.

Disability Rights UK is a pan disability charity set up by merging several previous UK disability organisations. It acts both as a campaign group and an information/advice service.

 

[Gecko]

If this is part of developing a White Paper, which is a stage in creating a new Act of Parliament, the UK government must have committed to following up on this consultation.

Would be great if it is but I can't see anything, bar the words white paper which are in quotation marks, that implies this.

It looks more think tank like to me - studying disability and welfare.

Still could be an interesting project, I haven't taken the survey yet but shall do when energy allows.

 

[It's M.E. Linda]

If this is part of developing a White Paper, which is a stage in creating a new Act of Parliament, the UK government must have committed to following up on this consultation.

Disability Rights UK is a pan disability charity set up by merging several previous UK disability organisations. It acts both as a campaign group and an information/advice service.

@ringding @Forestvon @JoanneS

Looks like a Consultation which our group(s) should be encouraged to take part in.
Please remind me if I don’t post it next week.....rather a lot going on at the moment!

 

[Kitty]

I've done the survey – it's quite long, especially if you have lots to say, but you can do a bit and then go back to it later. The language used is very simple, and it's possible to go through and simply tick boxes if you haven't the energy to write anything.