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Independent Living
07 October 2022 | Resource
... where everyone with lived experience of disability or health conditions can participate equally as full ... choose to live independent life-styles with dignity. This does not mean that disabled people necessarily need to live ... Disability”. The Social Model of Disability explains how society often prevents disabled people from having ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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’. ...
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 ...
£20 week UC uplift must be kept and extended says APPG of MPs on poverty
31 January 2021 | News
... thus be less likely to have savings to fall back on. The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) wrote that disabled ... and related benefits, it would allow people to manage their health better and avoid having to choose between heating and ... claim. The initial 5 week wait for a UC and its monthly payment may lead to the lead to claims for ‘advance ...
High Court rules loss of around £180 a month disability premiums on claiming Universal Credit is unlawful discrimination
26 January 2022 | News
... over the DWP’s failure to provide adequate transitional payments to protect them and others from a ‘cliff-edge’ ... Before moving to UC, both TP and AR had received the severe disability premium (SDP) and the enhanced disability premium ... the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions was unable to show an “objective and reasonable justification” for the ...
Pathways from poverty: The future of the DWP
25 March 2019 | News
This new Demos report sets out how institutions beyond the DWP could deliver employment ... explore new commissioning models which move beyond a 'payment-by-results' approach for third sector organisations. ...