Johnny Timpson
@johnnytimpson1
NED, Financial Inclusion Commissioner, Financial Services Consumer Panel member,Trustee & Ambassador for Neurodiversity, Disability & Financial Abuse Charities.
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Along with funded partners Personal Finance Research Centre and Research Institute for Disabled Consumers (RiDC) we contributed to a submission to the Work & Pensions Committee Disability Employment Enquiry, based on findings from an earlier research project on the financial wellbeing of disable people in the UK.
Read more: financialfairness.org.uk/en/our-work/pu…
On behalf of Elizabeth and I, thank you Kate Garraway Richard Smith and all at Good Morning Britain for giving UK carers a voice. It’s essential we simplify and transform carer support plus that Department for Work and Pensions vulnerable customer policy is at least as good as that in UK regulated sectors, if not better.
Watch FF's James Daley talking about our campaign to support funeral plan customers who lost their money in ITV's Tonight programme at 830pm
Unpaid carers are crucial to social care in the UK. Powerful testimony from Elizabeth and Johnny Timpson about the harsh realties of navigating an unreasonably complex system.
The people who run these systems need to focus on helping people like Elizabeth, not hounding them.
Pleased to hear that 888 are withdrawing these aggressive ads - sensible, proportionate decision. 🙏
And well done to Henrietta Bowden-Jones for her campaign on this. I agree. A train carriage is not a casino.
How can social prescribing help tackle health inequalities at the local level? Join us at our Community-led and person-centred approaches to health and wellbeing conference to find out:
kingsfund.org.uk/events/communi… #KFCommunity