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Bedroom tax: first Scottish eviction set?
21 August 2013 | News
... wheelchair ramp, wet room and handrails just two years ago. However she is facing repossession after failing to pay £248 in bedroom tax arrears. North Lanarkshire Council ... For more on the bedroom tax see http://disabilityrightsuk.org/bedroom-tax Bedroom tax: first ...
PIP assessment guide updated
28 May 2014 | News
Personal Independence Payment assessment guide for assessment providers The ... as part of the commercial process. It provides guidance for health professionals carrying out assessment activity and ...
Govt wants to keep 20 metre PIP rule
03 July 2013 | News
... decision. Lord Alton’s question was: “… how they [the Government] will respond to the consultation on the 50 or 20 metre Personal Independence Payment qualifying criteria; what procedure they intend to ... and intend to meet with a range of disabled people and disability organisations to discuss their views first-hand. ...
Kamran Mallick: 'I want to change the world for disabled people'
22 May 2018 | News
The head of Disability Rights UK on how the organisation is campaigning ... to the deaths of 13 people. Mallick says the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England are “uninterested ...
National Disability Strategy declared unlawful: Disability Rights UK comment
25 January 2022 | News
Disability Rights CEO Kamran Mallick said: “We have a phrase in the disability community: ‘nothing about us without us’. I pay tribute to the Disabled people who fought for justice ...
VODG demands clarification on overnight case support
17 March 2019 | News
Disability services group issues fresh demand on government ... support. Read press release Long-running uncertainty about payments and funding for sleep in staff has created huge ... what hard working staff are entitled to, and precisely how it, and commissioners, will fund this commissioners and ...
Citizens Advice survey shows millions will fall into energy bills debt
24 August 2022 | News
New analysis from Citizens Advice shows 1 in 4 (24%) people in the UK won’t be able to afford ... particularly hard, many of us depend on energy to stay healthy and independent, and we already face the extra costs of disability. The Government must act now to increase benefits ...
New Age UK report finds 1.6 million older people have unmet needs
13 July 2023 | News
The headline figures show that 1.6m older Disabled people have unmet care needs, ... care. New research from charity Age UK, ‘ The State of Health and Care of Older People in England 2023 ’, documents how our health and care system is struggling, and too often ...
Our Manifesto for disability rights in a post-EU UK
25 June 2017 | News
Disability Rights UK has produced a manifesto on what the ... citizens living in other EU countries and d) no detrimental impact on disabled people’s independence through ... and requirements for ‘comprehensive health insurance’ Continued mutual recognition ...
Letter to the Chancellor in advance of his 'mini Budget' speech
06 July 2020 | News
... all disabled children, including those with Education, Health and Care Plans, with the support, learning and skills ... assessment processes for Personal Independence Payment and the work capability assessment. Disabled people ... your recovery plans. Yours sincerely, Kamran Mallick CEO, Disability Rights UK Letter to the Chancellor in ...