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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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...