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ESA benefit to be stopped as early as April 2012
Government to impose time limit on Employment Support Allowance
Published date: 15 Sep 2011 at 2:39PM
ESA benefit to be stopped as early as April 2012
The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) plans to introduce a time limit of one year for all but the most seriously ill people claiming ESA. The decision is likely to affected thousands of people with MS.
Plans to improve the earnings caps for carers in Guernsey
Benefit changes welcomed by disability groups
By Luke Richardson
Wigwam Support Group adviser Jenny Hooper, left, and Guernsey Disability Alliance chairwoman Shelaine Green have welcomed Social Security plans to improve the grants system for carers. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 1180874)
LIFTING the earnings cap for people claiming a carer’s allowance would make their work seem less devalued, disability groups have said.
Ella-Grace Honeyman gets ready to head out to New York for her latest life-saving operation
Hopes high that Ella-Grace is set for her final surgery
By VICTORIA LEGGETT
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
6:30 AM
Little Ella-Grace Honeyman flew to New York once again yesterday with hopes high it will be the last time the youngster faces life-threatening brain surgery.
The four-year-old, from Hevingham, near Aylsham, suffers from the rare condition vein of Galen malformation. Yesterday she headed to America for a seventh operation to seal leaking blood vessels in her brain.
