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package if you are not eligible for NHS CHC 60 14 Retrospective challenges to NHS CHC decisions 62 14.1 Will your case qualify for a retrospective review? 62 14.2 Who can submit a claim? 63 14.3 Who should you ... Factsheet 20w August 2024 4 of 82 14.6 What will happen if your claim is successful? 67 14.7 If you are dissatisfied with how your claim is treated
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part of the industrial relations system in the UK, and without sufficient access many older workers will have no form of redress against ageist employers. Age UK is opposed to the introduction of fees ... constructing barriers to making a claim will reduce the incentive for employers to improve employment practices in the first place. Both ‘option 1’ and ‘option 2’ will fail to encourage early settlement
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one person lives at the property 15 9.1 How many people count for Council Tax? 15 9.2 The amount you will receive as a discount 16 9.3 Discretionary discounts or reductions 17 9.4 Making an application for ... for example, if you live alone in a property (or count as living alone for Council Tax purposes) you will be entitled to a 25% discount – see section 8. Could you apply for a discretionary reduction in
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the Payment Systems Regulator or PSR was incorporated as a subsidiary of the FCA in April 2014 and will be fully operational in April 2015. The Payments Systems Regulator is now consulting on its assessment ... PSR and Operators The regulatory approach should set out what measures or other methods the PSR will use to ensure that payment systems are operating in the interests of service users, including vulnerable
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such contributions a regular feature of Age Matters. I hope you enjoy this edition and perhaps it will inspire you to get active this springtime! Enjoy! Tell us what matters to you National survey of the ... Age Cymru’s fifth annual survey so we can better understand your views and current experiences. You will have noticed a copy of the survey inserted into this paper edition of Age Matters, while a pdf version
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just want to have a chat about what they saw on television last night. Hopefully, this initiative will help older people cope with some of the challenges arising from the Coronavirus outbreak. Anyone ... 444 or send us an email - please ensure you include the following information in your email. This will help us deal with your registration more efficiently. Name Address Telephone number Please
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UK Pilot Project objectives were to: Develop appropriate, high quality, integrated services that will improve the quality of life for older people at the end of their lives Support the identification ... around ageing in place, this economic saving will increase substantially in coming decades – indeed, Pickard (2008) estimates that the demand for informal care will more than double in the next 30 years. Informal
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Pension age will start to rise beyond 65 for both women and men. These changes have come about as a result of the very positive news that, on average, we are living longer. But not all of us will have a long ... Age UK will be responding to this. However, in the meantime we have published this paper which looks at the impact of rising State Pension age from the perspective of some of the individuals who will be heavily
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the year with the positive news that vaccines to immunise against Covid-19 had been developed and will be rolled out in the coming months, with initial priority given to frontline health and social care ... be there for older people. Here’s hoping that 2021 will be a brighter year for all of us, as we work together to help bring about the changes that will deliver an age friendly Wales. Keeping warm when outdoors
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that social isolation and loneliness will impact upon older people’s wellbeing. Comments relating to Action Points Accessible streets (p18 & p19) Action 1: We will commission a research project to scope ... guidance by the end of summer 2017. As part of this project we will also examine updating our guidance on the use of tactile paving surfaces. We will then consider other recommendations and determine a way forward
