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DPOs write to Prime Minister
07 September 2022 | News
The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG), is a coalition of ... in the country around food and energy price rises, noticing how Disabled people were impacted more than any other ... crisis. Poverty is rising and inflation and fuel prices show no signs of slowing down, this is the biggest issue ...
Prepayment meter fallout sees the issue become national news
08 February 2023 | News
Last week saw the conversation around Prepayment meters hit the mainstream as the Times newspaper ... at a local shop or online, usually with a key or a card. However, over the last few months there have been worrying ... and campaigns officer at DR UK and one of the leads at the Disability Poverty Campaign said “Finally after months of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Half a Million in Disabled Households Forced into Severe Hardship by Green Paper Cuts
13 June 2025 | News
... WPI Economics for leading food bank charity Trussell show the ir projected impact of proposed changes to social ... of needing food bank support in the future . It also shows that the UK government's planned increase to the basic ... support and help more people into work, where their health allows this and accessible jobs are available, but ...
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 ...
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 ...