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Disability Unit fails to provide adequate offline consultation help
26 January 2021 | News
Disability Rights UK is seeking urgent clarification from the government’s Disability Unit about how Disabled people who are offline can respond to its ...
Dr Lisa Cameron MP leads debate on United Nations Day of Persons with Disabilities in the House of Commons
13 December 2021 | News
... The MP, who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Disability , led a debate last week marking United Nations ... the peak of the pandemic and recent research by Sense shows that almost three quarters of disabled people surveyed ... issues of ongoing inequality in education, employment, health and care. Parliament and MPs must lead the way in ...
Guide to recruiting and supporting disabled people in the workplace
06 February 2018 | News
Disability Rights UK, in conjunction with Disability@Work , have written a guide on disability related disadvantage in the workplace. Building ...
DWP increases automatic extension of existing PIP awards by up to 12 months
05 September 2022 | News
... delays in the processing of new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims, the DWP has announced making an ... and if so will write to claimants to inform them. PIP payments will be received as normal until we complete the ... Citizens Advice projected that this meant £294 million of payments that would be awarded were being held up. Calling ...
Our response to the NAO report on sanctions
29 November 2016 | News
... found that the DWP is not doing enough to find out how sanctions affect people on benefits. View National ... their day-to-day lives, sanctions are especially punitive. Disability Rights UK wants a system that genuinely supports ... finding coercive ways to get people off benefits when their health or other critical factors clearly make this ...
Committee calls for Energy Support Packages to be better targeted
26 July 2022 | News
... and low-income households. As households struggle to pay their energy bills and get deeper into debt, MPs are ... energy suppliers to develop a scheme to help households pay off debts over a longer period as well as updating their ... mention the plight of vulnerable people who struggle to pay their energy bills because they are on or who are being ...
Good Morning Britain want case studies on poverty among disabled people
18 October 2018 | News
Good Morning Britain are covering a story on Poverty and how it has increased for children and among disabled people ...
DWP release benefit death peer reviews
15 May 2016 | News
... but many highlight flaws in the handling of people with mental illness or learning difficulty by DWP officials. Some ... check and referral to a debt management service in overpayment cases. Raising staff awareness of action required by ...
Appeal granted against court judgment denying £20 per week uplift on “justifiable” disability discrimination grounds
17 August 2022 | News
... Credit (UC) claimants during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, permission to appeal the High Court’s judgment ... each receiving a total of £1,500 benefit arrears. However, the High Court ruled that the exclusion of ESA ... in the guts’ court ruling on £20 uplift available from disabilitynewsservice.com. High Court judgment denies two ...
Free DR UK Disability Rights Handbook Coronavirus Supplement available now
14 May 2020 | News
... of these changes are detailed in our recently published Disability Rights Handbook 2020/2021 . But in a special free ... later ones - in the June and subsquent editions of our Disability Rights Handbook Updater 2020/2021 . Download our ... Coronavirus Supplement (word format) . Full details of how to order our 2020/2021 Disability Rights Handbook and ...