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Urgent expansion of work support for disabled people required
06 March 2012 | News
Press release 7 March 2012 Disability Rights UK [1] welcomes the Government’s ... come on stream) usually know nothing about it, schools and health services usually don’t promote it – and one ... disabled people each year use the Access to Work programme. However, the numbers of ‘new starts’ is going down. ...
Extra costs faced by Disabled people continue to rise
24 September 2024 | News
Disability charity, SCOPE, has updated its Disability Price Tag report for the second year in succession. It shows that the cost of living with a disability has increased ... medical treatment.” “These sacrifices put their health at risk, and at worst are life-threatening. The ...
DPCG urge chancellor to continue the Household Support Fund
20 August 2024 | News
The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) has written to the ... Fund approaches. The Household Support Fund provides payments to help vulnerable residents with essential ... councils to support low-income families in their area. How councils allocate this money and who is eligible varies ...
HMCTS finally accepts recommendations on data collection to support the evaluation of its courts and tribunals reforms
13 October 2020 | News
... to justice principles. We also need to be able to measure how different groups fare under the online processes, ... data about court users’ vulnerabilities, including mental and physical disabilities, age, literacy levels, and ... get a fair hearing whilst being cost-efficient for taxpayers.” Ken Butler DR UK’s Welfare Rights and Policy ...
New rules: PIP and terminal illness
23 February 2016 | News
... for a terminally ill claimant who is transferring from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) to wait a minimum of 28 days after the first ... Terminally ill DLA claimants are also subject to this rule. However, from 4 April 2016, the new rules mean that where a ...
Disability Rights UK is working with Transreport on its new Passenger Assist app
15 May 2018 | News
... people in their work. As part of the development process, Disability Rights UK recently designed and carried out a ... where disabled people – with a range of impairments and health conditions – were able to provide feedback on the ... and if you would like to know more about how you can partner with Disability Rights UK please email ...
DR UK representations stop 55% week ESA cut to under 25s
25 April 2017 | News
... 2017 cases where no work-related activity component is payable. The explanatory memorandum to the new regulations ... activity component (WRAC) or the support component. However, in addition their personal allowance was increased ... of ESA personal allowance paid to under 25 year olds. However, she says that she is grateful to DR UK for ...
Calls on Government to introduce an energy social tariff
03 October 2023 | News
... continue for the rest of the decade. DR UK as part of the Disability Poverty Campaign Group have also been writing to ... this being promised in last year’s autumn statement, however the consultation was not included in a range of ... of MoneySavingExpert.com, said: “A typical house now pays a once unthinkable, still unaffordable, £2,000 a year ...
Charities call for delivery charges and minimum spends to be scrapped for shielders
15 December 2020 | News
... for action as people who cannot shop in supermarkets due to health risks – and at the advice of the Government – are ... in supermarkets. Recent Independent Age / YouGov polling* shows that three quarters of people (77%) agree that those ... DR UK received from supermarkets here: https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/coronavirus#Shopping Charities call ...
Disability Rights UK on the "Right track" for Disabled people.
08 November 2024 | News
For many years Disability Rights UK has been on record as pushing the case ... the rail industry treated passengers who need assistance. Disability Rights UK Rail Policy Adviser Stephen Brookes ... way that disabled passengers will be treated as respected paying passengers and not ‘objects causing problems’. ...