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Helen Purdons life was turned upside down in September 2017 when her application for personal independence payment PIP benefit was rejected. Purdon, 47, had been on disability living allowance DLA for 10 years, following a diagnosis of epilepsy, which means she has seizures every 10 to 15 days. She is unable to work and assumed her transfer to PIP would be seamless. But she was wrong. It was unreal. My DLA stopped, which was around 拢400 a month. I didnt get any money at all for months, she says. We couldnt afford to put petrol in the car, we were living off pasta and beans. Purdon, who is from Irvine in North Ayrshire, decided to appeal against the PIP decision.It took more than a year, but in October 2018 a tribunal found that Purdon was entitled to PIP, awarding her 拢119.90 a week and backdated payments of 拢5,700.Purdons case is all too common. According to the latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions, more than half of existing epilepsy patients and two-thirds of new claimants a stanley thermosflasche re vaso stanley being denied disabi stanley flask lity benefits.Weve had numerous people tell us that they dont want to be here any more 鈥?that they have had enoughPIP was introduced in England, Scotland and Wales in 2013, replacing DLA. The benefit is supposed to cover some of the additional costs of having a long-term health condition, and is available to people in or out of work. It is worth up to 拢87.65 a week to meet daily living needs, plus up to 拢61.20 a week for the mobility element, depending o Fjqz Court of appeal broadcasts in landmark event - video
South Africa will review its membership of the international criminal court, a cabinet minister has said, after a dispute over Pretorias failure to arrest t stanley kubek he Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir.The row erupted on 15 June when Bashir left South Africa as world powers and activists urged the government stanley cup to arrest him under an ICC warrant on charges of masterminding genocide in Sudans Darfur region.Jeff Radebe, the minister in the presidency, told reporters in a post-cab stanley usa inet meeting briefing: Cabinet decided that it will review South Africas participation in the Rome statutes of the international [criminal] court. He said the government would leave only as a last resort. Such a decision will only be taken when South Africa has exhausted all the remedies available to it, he added.lt;p lang=\ en\ dir=\ ltr\ >Minister Radebe says Cabinet decided it will review SA 39 particpation in the Rome Statute for a number of reasons lt;a href=\ https://twitter/hashtag/PostCabinet src=hash\ > PostCabinetlt;/a>lt;/p>mdash; SA Gov News @SAgovnews lt;a href=\ https://twitter/SAgovnews/status/613986024377729024\ >June 25, 2015lt;/a>lt;/blockquote>\n }} >Minister Radebe says Cabinet decided it will review SA 39 particpation in the Rome Statute for a number of reasons PostCabinetmdash; SA Gov News @SAgovnews June 25, 2015Bashir, who was in South Africa for a summit of the African Union, was allowed to fly out of the country
Helen Purdons life was turned upside down in September 2017 when her application for personal independence payment PIP benefit was rejected. Purdon, 47, had been on disability living allowance DLA for 10 years, following a diagnosis of epilepsy, which means she has seizures every 10 to 15 days. She is unable to work and assumed her transfer to PIP would be seamless. But she was wrong. It was unreal. My DLA stopped, which was around 拢400 a month. I didnt get any money at all for months, she says. We couldnt afford to put petrol in the car, we were living off pasta and beans. Purdon, who is from Irvine in North Ayrshire, decided to appeal against the PIP decision.It took more than a year, but in October 2018 a tribunal found that Purdon was entitled to PIP, awarding her 拢119.90 a week and backdated payments of 拢5,700.Purdons case is all too common. According to the latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions, more than half of existing epilepsy patients and two-thirds of new claimants a stanley thermosflasche re vaso stanley being denied disabi stanley flask lity benefits.Weve had numerous people tell us that they dont want to be here any more 鈥?that they have had enoughPIP was introduced in England, Scotland and Wales in 2013, replacing DLA. The benefit is supposed to cover some of the additional costs of having a long-term health condition, and is available to people in or out of work. It is worth up to 拢87.65 a week to meet daily living needs, plus up to 拢61.20 a week for the mobility element, depending o Fjqz Court of appeal broadcasts in landmark event - video
South Africa will review its membership of the international criminal court, a cabinet minister has said, after a dispute over Pretorias failure to arrest t stanley kubek he Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir.The row erupted on 15 June when Bashir left South Africa as world powers and activists urged the government stanley cup to arrest him under an ICC warrant on charges of masterminding genocide in Sudans Darfur region.Jeff Radebe, the minister in the presidency, told reporters in a post-cab stanley usa inet meeting briefing: Cabinet decided that it will review South Africas participation in the Rome statutes of the international [criminal] court. He said the government would leave only as a last resort. Such a decision will only be taken when South Africa has exhausted all the remedies available to it, he added.lt;p lang=\ en\ dir=\ ltr\ >Minister Radebe says Cabinet decided it will review SA 39 particpation in the Rome Statute for a number of reasons lt;a href=\ https://twitter/hashtag/PostCabinet src=hash\ > PostCabinetlt;/a>lt;/p>mdash; SA Gov News @SAgovnews lt;a href=\ https://twitter/SAgovnews/status/613986024377729024\ >June 25, 2015lt;/a>lt;/blockquote>\n }} >Minister Radebe says Cabinet decided it will review SA 39 particpation in the Rome Statute for a number of reasons PostCabinetmdash; SA Gov News @SAgovnews June 25, 2015Bashir, who was in South Africa for a summit of the African Union, was allowed to fly out of the country