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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Liaison with Jobcentre Plus when considering paid involvement
29 April 2024 | Resource
... written for Jobcentre Plus by the organisation that may be paying you for involvement. The organisation should give you ... It explains the context in which payment is offered and how involvement in health and social care is different from paid employment ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Disabled peoples stories of leaving institutions
11 June 2013 | News
... the world. This report adds to the body of evidence about how the views and wishes of people with learning ... coordinator for CHANGE and who himself has a learning disability, brought together the experiences of a number of ... that this research can be used as a force for good, to show that people with learning disabilities are the experts ...
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 ...