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Supermarket responses to DRUK letter
15 April 2020 | News
... items. He asked them to answer the following questions: How can customers let you know they are disabled or have a health condition which means they need to shop in a ... customers get priority for online shopping slots? “Aldi does not provide a grocery delivery service, therefore we ...
Concerns for Disabled pensioners as Winter Fuel Payments cut
31 July 2024 | News
... means-tested benefits will no longer receive Winter Fuel Payments. Pension Credit is a means-tested benefit for ... with the extra costs of heating, required to stay safe and healthy. Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK ... and campaigns officer at DR UK and one of the leads at the Disability poverty Campaign Group said: “This announcement ...
Environment Secretary urged to involve Disabled people in tackling climate change
15 August 2024 | News
... by 408 climate scientists, warns that “Any leader who doesn’t make stronger climate action a priority will place ... are at very severe risk, from the consequences of environmental change. For example, Disabled people are often unable ... pollution, such as air pollution is a major cause of ill health: creating childhood disability, impairing children's ...
Disabled mum takes her own life after actions of DWP and Capita ‘magnified’ anxiety
05 June 2023 | News
... into the death of Philippa Day in October 2019 describes how the actions of the DWP and Capita had a “profound ... death, which found in January 2021 that flaws in the disability benefits system were “the predominant factor ... even though it had access to substantial evidence of her mental distress and her need to be assessed at her home in ...
DWP admits 'Access to Work' support is failing Disabled people
14 February 2025 | News
... transport is inaccessible. Attending the hearing, the Disability minister Sir Stephen Timms acknowledged there is ... the Access to Work scheme that provides free, confidential mental health support assistance with or without their employer’s ...
New Passenger Assistance app
15 August 2021 | News
... of many people having successful journeys using the app. However, if you’re still unsure about it or still have ... here’s a quick rundown on all there is to know! How does it make things easier? The app aims to make the ... is click download! 2. Set up your profile and provide as much information as you’d like – you’re in control of ...
Disability Rights UK seeks industrial strategy that includes disabled people
02 March 2017 | News
... basis of the Government’s economic policy and addresses how the Government wishes to grow the economy and generate ... worked for everyone. At present the industrial strategy doesn’t offer this vision; there is no mention of race, ... what is happening in back to work support (the forthcoming Health and Work Programme will have around a quarter of the ...
DR UK says all ESA claimants should be exempt from the benefit cap
10 August 2016 | News
... claimant’s housing benefit. New DWP quarterly statistics show, that over the three years since the benefit cap was ... getting in to work? In his 24 August 2015 speech on work, health and disability, then Secretary of State for Work and ... work (and many would like to) it’s clear what is needed: much more flexible practices from employers (for instance, ...
Review into business support for Disabled and long-term sick people announced
24 January 2025 | News
... review has been launched by the Government to explore how to support people with long-term illnesses or ... over a third of working age people reporting a long-term health condition and around a quarter classed as having a disability, the scale of the challenge according to the ...
DR UK raises further concerns with Minister about new PIP descriptor activity guidance
06 December 2017 | News
... panel held that a PIP activity cannot be carried out safely does not require that the occurrence of harm is “more ... rights of appeal will only attach to those decisions. all health care professionals have received updated training and ... they are able to correctly assess claimants’ safety. However, DR UK has written to the Minister again as we still ...