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Applying for Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA)
06 March 2025 | Resource
... Care and daily living needs General support Travel costs How much DSA can I get? How do I apply? Where to apply How to ... in the UK. Is DSA means tested? No. Eligibility for DSA does not depend on your income or the income of your family. ...
Disability Rights UK concerns over Access to Work - Letter to Minister for Disabled People
05 November 2012 | News
... the number of people using Access to Work, to make it much better known, to extend its use and strip out ... disability employment programmes in late 2010, the figures showed just over 37,000 people per year being helped by ... that disabled people routinely access (the NHS, disability/health condition organisations, general media - via press ...
MPs debate Universal Credit Roll-out
18 October 2017 | News
... To understand what needs fixing, we need to understand how we got here. When universal credit was first introduced ... Conservatives abstaining except for Sarah Wollaston, the health select committee chair, who voted with Labour. What does the vote mean? In terms of halting Universal Credit ...
Benefit sanctions harming claimants, lawyers warn
21 July 2022 | News
... lose 100% of their standard allowance for a period of time. However, the system for challenging benefit sanctions ... funds to live on. That can have a direct and detrimental effect on people’s mental and physical ... shows, the system for challenging benefit sanctions does not work. At the heart of the system is a presumption ...
Lu's Story - Student, challenging University Accommodation decisions
06 March 2025 | News
... made a formal complaint to her university with support from Disability Rights UK and won the case. Read more below. What ... one’s on your side. Don’t think you’re asking for too much, you deserve to be accommodated for; university ... overcharged, the accommodation team told me, “This is how it is done with other students in studios” and since ...
Low-traffic schemes overlook Disabled people’s needs
27 April 2021 | News
... camera-controlled filters makes “the environment feel much safer, and make it much more likely that local people ... to travel more by active means”. Edward Cripwell, of Disability Action in Islington, told The Times the charity ... they presented us with this scheme as a fait accompli. It does not seem that the rights of disabled people have been ...
Benefit rates remain “close to destitution levels”, says JRF
30 January 2023 | News
... million people (one in five) - were in poverty in 2020/21. However, it also highlights that living standards are likely ... only increased by 3.1% when inflation was and is still much higher. The JRF acknowledges that benefits were ... by the additional costs associated with disability and ill-health, and partly by the barriers to work disabled people ...
Government abandons plans to extend SSP to all low paid workers
03 August 2021 | News
... in 2021-22 is £96.35 a week for up to 28 weeks. In its Health is everyone’s business consultation , published in ... “The system of Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) is inflexible and does not reflect modern working practices, such as flexible ... said: “The Government’s own consultation clearly shows there is widespread support for the extension of SSP to ...
Jodey Whiting failed by DWP says inquiry
26 February 2019 | News
... rules in the case of Jodey, who had had a long history of mental distress. To make matters worse, the DWP continued to ... has died . The DWP has been ordered to apologise and pay £10,000 compensation. The DWP said it accepted the ... the ‘appalling damage’ caused by the government’s much criticised “fitness for work” assessment and other ...
Cost of living crisis: Carolynne’s story
27 September 2022 | News
... £530 each month. I can’t afford that. The bottom line is health and social care needs to start contributing to the ... staff who support Freya also need heating, so I have to pay for them to be warm. It’s causing animosity between me ... no impact on a £6,000 energy bill. The Scottish government doesn’t give local authorities the funds to support us. ...