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Bedroom tax human rights appeal fails
20 February 2014 | News
... justified and therefore lawful because discretionary payments are available to cover Housing Benefit losses as a ... not provided for by the new housing benefit rules, however the Court decided that disabled tenants should not ... not the answer."? For a summary of the case go to http://disabilityrightsuk.org/news/2013/july/ma-and-ors For more on ...
Disabled Peoples Organisations Sign Open Letter To PM Calling For Accessible Transport
05 September 2024 | News
Disability Rights UK Transport Policy Adviser, Stephen ... matter gives us hope that meaningful change is possible. However, it is imperative that these words are followed by ... as a matter of regular customer service: that it is both a health and safety issue and a matter of human rights and ...
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. ...
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 ...
High street off limits to disabled shoppers?
30 November 2014 | News
... and security worries, according to a new survey by the disability charity Vitalise. The Vitalise study found that 7 ... 10 disabled shoppers (69%) felt little or no security when paying for items at non-lowered shop counters with fixed ... Vitalise is urging all leading high street retailers to pay more attention to accessibility in their stores - and ...
Disabled people still by far the worst affected by the bedroom tax
10 September 2019 | News
... cases (71 per cent) the claimant or partner was receiving disability living allowance, personal independence payment, employment and support allowance, incapacity ... currently available.” The figures given by Mr. Quince show that there has been no improvement on the situation the ...
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 ...
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 ...
6–12th November is Living Wage Week!
16 October 2023 | News
... who choose to go further than the government minimum and pay their employees a wage which meets everyday needs - like ... UK has been a Living Wage Employer since 2022, pledging to pay our workers and third-party contractors alike at least ... the third sector aligning our actions to our mission. Low pay is reinforcing inequality in our sector : women in the ...