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Penny Mordaunt co-hosts APPG meeting on International Development
07 March 2018 | News
... was an opportunity to hear about the upcoming Global Disability Summit, and gain more detail about what it means for DFID to put disability at the heart of everything it does. When: 6-7pm, Wednesday 7 March 2018 This meeting ...
15,000 die before getting their share of £970 million ESA underpayment
19 December 2018 | News
... could be affected. It expects to complete its review and pay arrears to all cases back to their date of conversion to ... Affected claimants could be due around £5,000 in arrears. However, up to 15,000 disabled people have died before they ... benefits underpayment blunder . Sue Bott, Deputy CEO Disability Rights UK, said this issue has been a “disaster ...
Bedroom tax rulings concern DWP
12 September 2013 | News
... the bedroom tax. When calculating Housing Benefit, the DWP does not define a bedroom, leaving this up to the landlord to decide. However a series of decisions in Fife have been decided in ... of ‘bedroom tax’ For more on the bedroom tax see http://disabilityrightsuk.org/bedroom-tax You can view the Fife ...
The Disability Poverty Campaign Group call for collaboration on the new childhood poverty taskforce
29 July 2024 | News
... people across the country. The taskforce will consider how ministers can use policy levers in areas such as education, household income, housing, children’s health and childcare to tackle child poverty. The first ... struggling to feed, clothe and heat homes for children. The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) who campaign ...
ESA cuts would mean 70% would struggle to maintain their independence
26 October 2015 | News
The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) has surveyed over 500 ... struggle to maintain their independence 69% think their health would get worse. 45% say they would return to work later. 69% would struggle to pay their bills. Ahead of today's key debate on the Welfare ...
Lords says Govt failing duty of care to disabled people
23 March 2016 | News
... of Lords Select Committee on the Equality Act 2010 and Disability investigating the Act's impact on disabled people ... would be more economically active and at less risk of poor health and isolation.” Key findings and recommendations in ... local authorities and public bodies should review how they communicate with disabled people, and that disabled ...
Reinstating DLA awards: Non-attendance of PIP consultation with good reason
19 December 2018 | News
... by: Sarah Newton (Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work. I would like to update the House on the ... my Department is making in Personal Independence Payment (PIP). The guidance available to PIP Case Managers ... statement and link to guidance in Personal Independence Payment: Written statement - HCWS1224 Reinstating DLA ...
IPPR argues for free social care for over 65s
22 May 2019 | News
... Harry Quilter-Pinner and Dean Hochlaf, proposes to pay for free social care through an increase of 1.31 ... tax rise. They also call for greater integration of the health and social care systems, through the creation of ... expenditure. According to Evan Odell, a researcher at Disability Rights UK: "This report is one more example of a ...
New report advocates rebranding residential care
03 September 2014 | News
... the UK and around the world we have seen great examples of how residential care can reinvent itself. It is no longer a ... introduction of a license to practice and a living wage. Disability Rights UK CEO Liz Sayce says “Residential care does not need re-branding. What people need are genuine ...
Family of disabled boy evicted due to Coronavirus fears
29 March 2020 | News
... they are in hospital. Ahmed, who is ten, and has developmental disabilities including cerebral palsy and scoliosis, ... Ronald McDonald House. We are pretty disgusted. This is not how anyone should be treated. "The family have hotel ... story of Ahmed and his family underlines the failure of health and social care services, to provide necessary ...