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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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’. ...