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Charities demand restoration of benefits value
16 March 2015 | News
Disability Rights UK is a signatory to this letter, ... and pensioners, disabled people and those with long-term health conditions, in- and out-of-work families, and those ... Geraldine Blake Chief executive, Community Links Howard Sinclair Chief executive, St Mungos Broadway Sir ...
'Memories' storms the indie charts and supports Disability Rights UK
24 April 2023 | News
Disability Rights UK is honoured to have been chosen by ... as a high quality download with all the proceeds going to Disability Rights UK. If you'd like to know more about ... If you'd like to know more about Disability Rights UK and how you can support us, please email ...
Everyone Can survey on leisure sector provision for disabled people
04 December 2018 | News
... campaign led by Sport England, ukactive and several leading disability organisations. Everyone Can would like to change ... CEO’s etc. The aim of the survey is to learn more about how the Leisure Sector currently provide for disabled ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Campaign to Save Tax Credits
02 July 2015 | News
... children If tax credits are simply cut, without employers paying the living wage, then disabled people are likely to ... in society. Just cutting tax credits when employers are not paying a living wage fails that test. Child Poverty Action ...
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 ...
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 ...