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TUC calls for basic level of Universal Credit to be raised to £260 week during coronavirus outbreak
06 April 2020 | News
... grants so claimants don’t build up debts waiting for payments speeding up the application process for UC by not ... time to start a national conversation about how we repair Britain’s safety net and help those who ... million people, are from families in which someone has a disability. From April 2017 the level of the ESA (and now ...
Briefings for debate on challenges facing disabled people in UK
27 June 2018 | News
... people in the United Kingdom in 2018” Read the debate Disability Rights UK wrote two briefings in advance of the ... posed to disabled people by Personal Independence Payment, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
New style jobseeker's allowance
23 April 2025 | Resource
... 2025 Contents Who can get it? Students and new style JSA How to claim it How much is it? If you fall ill Going into hospital Find out ... UK do not have a limited capability for work because of ill health or disability that is expected to last more than 13 ...
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 ...
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 ...