Benefits

Eluned MorganLabour

22 October 2024, Plenary

Questions to the First Minister

…landlords to allow local authorities to rent out their homes, at a particular rent level, set at local housing allowance rates. All of that goes to help people to stay in their homes, but also allows people who have properties, who want to lease them on a long-term scheme, the security of knowing…

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Andrea Wayman

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…based as well, whether that's a service level agreement that we have with the local authority, or a DWP programme that we operate and our supported internships and so on. Sometimes, we create our own targets against things. Our relationship with Learning Disability Wales and Engage to Change, we…

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Andrea Wayman

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…people may need pre-employment support. Through different funding methods that we have, we've operated DWP programmes in the past. We currently operate supported shared apprenticeships for Welsh Government. That's very specialised, with people receiving one-to-one support through the fidelity model…

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Arthur Beechey

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…gwnaethom ni fuddsoddi mewn llwyth o hyfforddiant i gystadlu am gytundebau oedd yn cael eu cynnig efo'r DWP neu Jobcentre Plus ac efo'r awdurdodau lleol. Rydym ni'n rhedeg service level agreements, rydym ni hefyd yn rhan o redeg supported shared apprenticeships efo Cambrian Training. Hefyd rydym…

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Terry Mills

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 9

Yes. Quite happy to. Access to Work is often described as DWP's best-kept secret. When it's working and working well, it does really well. The issue is the delay; it's the implementation of it, the delay. It's a 26-week delay, currently, to get Access to Work. The programme itself is a really good…

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Terry Mills

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 9

…organisations, employers and impairment-specific groups, and that meets four times a year and the DWP is invited and gives updates. So, that's an ongoing group for disabled people's organisations, people working in the sector, to look at what's happening and how we make it better—suggestions to…

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Emma Benger

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 9

…linked up to these agencies already. We do successfully refer to ELITE and we're linked up with the Department for Work and Pensions. We do lots of events in collaboration with them as well to raise awareness, disability employment awareness events. They're ongoing now, actually, through October.…

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Mick AntoniwLabour

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 8

…additional challenge, isn't it, that, if you are self-employed, you only get one bite at, certainly, universal credit, for example. Am I on the right track here, or is there is an issue there as well?

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Daniel Biddle

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 8

…MP a few years ago. A roomful of employers spoke about Disability Confident, had a representative from DWP there talking about Access to Work, and we had a sheet of paper on the table for people to make a pledge to sign up to Disability Confident. Not one person did. Not one person did. I think…

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Jane HuttLabour

16 October 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

…I've given this afternoon in terms of take-up of the pension credit to enable them to access the winter fuel payment—helping pensioners in your constituency and in Wales, I have to say, with your local authority working very closely with us, Darren Millar, and local authorities are on board.

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Darren MillarConservative

16 October 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

…that I represent. Some 30,000 people across those two local authority areas are expected to lose out on winter fuel payments this year, and, frankly, they are bitterly disappointed in the response of the Welsh Government to this crisis, and it is a crisis for many of them, who will struggle to pay…

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Jane HuttLabour

16 October 2024, Plenary

Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

Thank you, Darren Millar. We're working to ensure people in Conwy and Denbighshire, and throughout Wales, claim every pound to which they're entitled. Our 'Claim what's yours' Advicelink Cymru helpline is helping pensioners to find out about and access financial support, including pension credit.

Tagged from the title of its item or question: “Winter Fuel Payments”Official Record