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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I Can Make It videos of young disabled people at work
31 July 2016 | News
... Make It project we are proud to release our latest films, showing two young disabled people at work. We would be ... “ Wanted a Very Personal Assistant ” which was shown on BBC Three last year. Carrie Boyce Carrie Boyce works at the Royal Society of Chemistry. Disability Rights UK's I Can Make It project aims to reduce ...
Two Champions for I Can Make It represented young people with disabilities with distinction this week
30 November 2017 | News
... to discuss further what this picture will look like and how we can focus on good retention policy as well as ... such as colleges and universities: “looking into how independent living challenges impact on study ...
Violence against Disabled women and girls increasing on transport
20 August 2024 | News
Figures from the British Transport Police show the number of crimes against women and girls has risen ... Disabled. Disabled women and girls are at even more risk, however 51% of victims stated that other rail passengers did ... to or taken seriously when reporting their experiences. Disability Rights UK Transport Policy Adviser Stephen ...
UK’s leading Disabled People’s Organisation DR UK comment on the public hearing aspects of the Covid Inquiry
14 June 2023 | News
... must be learned’ sound cliché and forgettable, but how can they not? How can a quarter of a million people be forgotten, and seen ...