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Polly's Story - Disability Rights UK Volunteer, Paralympian, and Masters Student
05 December 2024 | News
... the lessons she wished she knew sooner. Polly explains how disability is ultimately a social construct, and does not define who you are or what you are capable of, but ... make light of Disabled dating (even though you have not- much to the disappointment of you- been on a single date at ...
1.3 million people in poor mental health who need help with Universal Credit are being “Set Up To Fail”
25 May 2021 | News
New research by the charity Money and Mental Health Institute (MMHI) says around 1.3 million ... appealing decisions about their benefits. The new report shows that when people with mental health problems try to get ... the Universal Credit website. Making this online process much more accessible and user-friendly, by adding prompts ...
How does limiting the Access to Work Scheme get more Disabled people into work?
20 February 2025 | News
... these things. Instead, the Minister for Social Security and Disability has said: “The problem is that there has been ... Fazilet Hadi MBE Head of Policy at Disability Rights UK How does limiting the Access to Work Scheme get more Disabled ...
Council Tax Support means work does not pay
10 March 2014 | News
... previous national scheme.” As a result , for some, work doesn’t pay under the new scheme. Some of those 225,000 ... stand to lose 97p for every extra £1 earned – a fundamentally perverse result. Many local authorities have passed ... of local authorities’ discretions and obligations, and how the DWP will respond when it considers that local ...
More than half of the UK population living in destitution are in long term ill health or are disabled people: new JRF research
08 December 2020 | News
... benefits claims and appeals had had a detrimental effect on those involved. The JRF says that ... or drug or alcohol problems especially hard, as they felt much less benefit from online or telephone-based support. ... be kept and extended to legacy benefits: new JRF briefing How Universal Credit is failing people in vulnerable ...
Govt no action on WCA mental health case
19 January 2014 | News
... and Support Allowance (ESA) disadvantages people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and autism. ... directions to the Secretary of State and a leaked memo shows the Government intends to do nothing following the ... to the WCA process, and the Court of Appeal’s judgment does not change this direction. It will be business as usual ...
Estimated £2 per hour pay gap for Disabled employees
18 October 2024 | News
... the report, ONS defined disability as a physical or mental health condition or illness, which has or is expected ... Whilst this report focuses on the pay gap in 2023, it shows that unfair pay conditions for Disabled employees ... mustn’t be ignored. “The responsibility to make change doesn’t only lie with government, employers must take ...
"Get Britain Working” white paper published today.
26 November 2024 | News
... paper, promising to “Get Britain Working.” by fundamentally improving how the DWP delivers employment support to people with ... an hour more than Disabled workers.” “There is so much insecurity for Disabled people, who give work a try but ...
David Blunkett: Jack Ashley Lecture speech
10 March 2015 | News
... I have to say that The Last Leg is a good example of how to present, through the use of humour, the absurdity of ... observing after the Government was forced to introduce the much criticised first stage of the Disability Discrimination ... the guidance for peer review is focused on suicide, which does not cover people like David Clapson.” She called on ...
Welfare benefit reforms “devastating” to health and wellbeing conclude cross party group of MPs
25 February 2021 | News
... has concluded. The MPs found overwhelming evidence showing how the Act has pushed many low income households ... of different aspects of the social security system on the mental and physical health of claimants and their families, ... In some cases, the whole experience had proved too much for some claimants and they have taken their own lives. ...