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New research shows huge rise in extra costs for Disabled households
03 May 2023 | News
... Scope last published figures for the extra costs of disability in 2019, when the average extra cost was £583 a ... extra costs would rise to £1,122 per month. These figures show how disability benefit payments like Personal Independence Payment (PIP), are ...
Industrial Strategy a lost opportunity by BEIS to utilise public procurement
27 November 2017 | News
... Philip Connolly, policy and development manager at Disability Rights UK said: “The good news is that the Industrial Strategy does reference the Government’s target of moving a million ... participation of disabled people in apprenticeships by 20%. However, despite the acknowledgement that public sector ...
Gagging legislation becomes law
30 January 2014 | News
Disability Rights UK has been extremely concerned about the ... gagging clause was passed with a substantial majority. However in the Commons MPs voted to reinstate the clause. ... clause, the BBC Today programme chose to highlight how much government departments spent on biscuits at meetings ...
DR UK joins public call for Michael Gove to freeze rents
23 February 2023 | News
... Before this crisis, renters spent four to five times as much as owner-occupiers on housing. Yet landlords, with the ... Renters Reform Bill. Mikey Erhardt, Housing Policy Lead at Disability Rights UK said: "Time and time again, we see how the housing system is rigged against Disabled people. We ...
DR UK says public sector should do disability benefits assessments
08 April 2018 | News
Mentally unwell woman has disability benefits stopped because assessor failed to turn ... again we hear of poor assessment practices when it comes to disability benefits. This has a massive impact on people who ...
National Apprenticeship Week 2018 – what’s on offer in the NHS?
04 March 2018 | News
... of roles and opportunities available – from estates to health and social care, housekeeping and IT to business ... to celebrate the stories of NHS apprentices who have a disability – whether a physical disability, a learning ... difficulty or disability, a long term health condition, mental health condition or any other kind of disability. ...
Court hears disabled activist’s challenge to ‘cataclysmic’ cuts to out-of-work disability benefits
17 December 2024 | News
... court in London heard a legal challenge that aims to expose how the last Conservative government used a “sham ... to try to push through “cataclysmic” cuts to disability benefits of nearly £3 billion over four years. ... make the same overall level of savings but has yet to say how it will do this and if it will implement the WCA cuts. ...
Are PIP and ESA Assessments working well?
29 October 2017 | News
... the effectiveness of assessments for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). ... to carry out assessments for people with a wide range of health conditions? Is Department of Work and Pensions ... eligibility for benefits are available internationally, and how transferrable are they to ESA and/or PIP? Mandatory ...
Thank you Lloyds of London
24 February 2023 | News
At the end of last year Disability Rights UK was very happy to learn that we had ... knowing the great work that Disability Rights UK does with Disabled people of all ages. Shelley says : "I was ... of the Lloyd's Market Charity Awards. I know first hand how valuable the work of Disability Rights UK is and this ...
Civil servant says DWP wants to merge PIP and Universal Credit
29 November 2021 | News
A DWP civil servant has told a disability charity that the Government plans to merge PIP ... of the meeting, the DWP partnership adviser had been shown the link to a Disability News Service (DNS) article ... Universal Credit was first suggested in July in the Health and Disability green paper, Shaping Future Support ...