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A new Scottish Government advocacy service has been launched to support disabled people to access benefits and to enable them “to have their voice heard, express their views and feel...
01 July 2020
Don’t know your UC from your PIP? Confused by the range of health and disability benefits?
Introduction to Welfare Benefits online course
4 x 1 hour modules
This new online course is...
30 June 2020
Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey has announced conditionality and benefit sanctions will be reintroduced this week as jobcentres in England start to reopen after lockdown,...
30 June 2020
Sidra Kauser, aged 22, from Halifax, suffers severe sight impairment and mental health difficulties. As a student in full time higher education at the University of York she is not...
29 June 2020
Eighteen leading charities and mental health organisations, including Disability Rights UK, Mind, Liberty and the Trussell Trust are backing a campaign by Rethink Mental Illness...
29 June 2020
The Department for Work and Pensions has updated their Covid-19 guidance in British Sign Language (BSL) video format. You can access these videos via the following link:
https://www....
29 June 2020
Justice Minister Chris Philip MP has announced that the arrangements are being made to make video hearings available across all Social Security and Child Support Tribunal regions....
29 June 2020
Inclusion London has launched its interim report based on hundreds of responses to its Social Care survey.
The report paints a stark picture according to the pan-London DPO:
“From the...
25 June 2020
A disabled man has died during the Coronavirus lockdown because he couldn’t access food supplies.
Bell Ribeiro-Addy, MP for Streatham, London, told the Parliamentary Women and...
25 June 2020
Following a recent roundtable meeting with the Minister for Disabled people Justin Tomlinson, DR UK has written to further raise extending the £20 week Universal Credit increase to...
24 June 2020
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