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Chancellor urged to support Disabled people with cost of living crisis
16 August 2022 | News
The Disability Poverty Campaign Group has written to the ... Disabled customers and in particular protect those on pre-payment meters from higher charges and disconnections. Read ...
Benefit uprating
10 April 2022 | News
... increase is based on last September’s inflation figure. However, since then inflation has surged, in large part due ... face a double whammy in that the extra costs consequent of disability are also surging. Debt will spiral, and many will struggle to pay for essentials. Unacceptable choices will be made: to ...
MPs launch inquiry into bereavement benefits
09 April 2019 | News
... 17 May. Is the new bereavement benefit (Bereavement Support Payment) working well? How well has the Government done at explaining and promoting ... benefit? Do people who are eligible for Bereavement Support Payment find it easy to claim? What should be done to ...
Over two thirds of Universal Credit claimants currently in arrears while living costs rise
25 October 2021 | News
... high employment economy as the solution to the income loss. However, our polling found that 50% of Universal Credit ... “This group also aren’t confident they will be able to pay their bills and avoid further debt: 40% are not ... their adequacy and that they accurately reflect their disability related costs.” The JRF report Dragged down by ...
Council adopts novel approach to protect Blue Badge holders
08 August 2022 | News
... to attend the equivalent of a speed awareness course and to pay £100 administrative costs, using their powers to issue ... from Disabled people living in east Sussex. It illustrates how people abusing the scheme affect the availability of ... are maximised for the Disabled people who depend on it. However, it is encouraged by the results in East Sussex. ...
High street shops accessibility scandal
09 November 2014 | News
... has been cancelled. Liz Sayce, Chief Executive Officer of Disability Rights UK said: “Firms are still breaking the ... business. But for those who don’t understand, we need much stronger enforcement of the law – to show that unlawful exclusion will not be tolerated in this ...
Senior Judge says DWP evidence to tribunals so poor it would be wholly inadmissible in any other court
19 November 2017 | News
... we're thinking about long and hard, because the appellant doesn't lose anything.” For more information see - ...
Student loans could be denied to pupils who fail GCSE English and maths
24 February 2022 | News
... year. The move is aimed at lowering the cost to the taxpayer of the increasing numbers of university students who fail to earn enough to pay back their student loans. However, Disabled students who do not thrive in mainstream ...
C4 Dispatches: UC stories wanted
10 February 2015 | News
... is looking at the introduction of Universal Credit and how it is working in practice and the consequences of the ... to the claimant and they are unable to manage their payments. Perhaps they have not been identified as being ... or perhaps the system has not offered the alternative payment arrangement soon enough. Flexible support fund that ...
All PIP claimants to be offered apply online option
29 November 2021 | News
... to all customers who make a claim in their own right. However, appointees will still not be eligible to access the ...