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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.
Diabetes Raises the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease: Study
September 20, 2011 11:33 AM EDT
Diabetes does not just take its toll on the heart, a new study in Japan has found. It dramatically increases the risks of developing Alzheimer’s or dementia in later life.
Researchers from Kyushu University in Japan found that even when other risk factors of dementia such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking were taken into the account; the risks of vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s from diabetes was still extremely high.
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.
