If a person has paid National Insurance for years (eg. 20, 30, 40 years) and they die before receiving a state pension, the Government should make an end-of-life payment to the person's estate. This could help cover bills or funeral costs, or go to people in the deceased's will.
Make socio-economic status a protected characteristic in the Equality Act
- Final Signatures: 27
Protection from discrimination on the basis of socio-economic status should be added to the Equality Act. Social status is currently not protected under the Equality Act.
Review how the CMS verifies information and manages enforcement and penalties
- Final Signatures: 82
The review should consider how to better verify information of non-paying parents, such as their financial earnings. It should also look at how to enhance CMS enforcement and penalties for non-payments, such as alternative ways to contact non-paying parents if unresponsive.
Child maintenance is worked out on the paying parents wage before tax and national insurance deductions are made. This should be changed to be worked out after tax and national insurance deductions
Increase the National Living Wage to match the London Living Wage
- Final Signatures: 27
The Government should increase the national Living Wage (currently £9.50ph) to match the optional London Living Wage (currently £11.05ph). London may be the most expensive city to live in the UK but the cost of living is increasing everywhere while wages are not!
Reduce the state pension age to 63 for all
- Final Signatures: 13,300
Reduce the state pension age to 63. Some jobs may not able to be done the older we get for example bricklayers, HGV drivers. Of course, there will always be an exception with some elderly people being more able than others.
The Government responsed to this petition on 27th September 2021 (View Full Response)Many PIP assessment decisions are overturned either at mandatory reconsideration or at a tribunal. This is a wasteful use of Government resources and causes unnecessary stress for claimants. We want fines to be levied on companies conducting PIP assessments if a decision is overturned on appeal.
Abolish the 25% threshold for changes in income to trigger CMS recalculation
- Final Signatures: 373
CMS do not recalculate child maintenance awards where incomes change by less than 25%. This can have major consequences on payers' and recipients' lives. CMS has access to HMRC and can request payslips to correct the amount to pay.
Give employees a right to full pay during sick leave
- Final Signatures: 32
The Government should give employees a statutory entitlement to full pay when they are off sick, for at least the first several weeks of sickness, in line with entitlements in many other countries. Many employees are only entitled to £96.35 per week in Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). This is not enough.
Remove the suspension PIP payments policy to beneficiaries in care of NHS
- Final Signatures: 103
For PIP payments to continue to be paid to anyone in long term care of the NHS trusts in the UK. As policy for DWP currently states
After 28 days payments are stopped until person(s) are home and discharged from hospital. This policy needs to be removed and payments to be continued.