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New JRF report: Unlocking benefits -Tackling barriers for Disabled people wanting to work
14 November 2024 | News
... to £3 billion in cuts to health/disability benefits. However, the JRF says that targeting arbitrary savings (set ... and healthcare. It needs to ensure jobs are designed to be much more viable for Disabled people and more supportive ... in job support and to reinstate benefits if work doesn’t work out; increase UC’s work allowances for ...
The Demands For Disability and Climate Justice - Our Political Landscape Is Failing Us
20 February 2024 | News
... for drastic measures to prevent climate catastrophe, and how they will never be effective if they don't centre the ... “one size fits all mantra” on environmental policy DOES. NOT. WORK. For future climate policy to work for all, ... This is where Keir Starmer joins the story again. Following much Government inaction and false starts, the Labour Leader ...
Thousands of Disabled People to be £2,800 a Year Worse Off Under Universal Credit
07 May 2024 | News
... funding have been working-age households who rent, though much of the increase in weekly payments has covered soaring rent bills. However, single people with a long-term disability that ... for renters extends to much higher earnings levels than it does for “ legacy benefits ”. The Foundation said: ...
Over 460% rise in PIP claims stopped due to failure to return review form
15 February 2023 | News
... by Tom Pursglove, the Minister for Disabled People, show that in 2017, 7,500 claims for personal independence ... as requiring “additional support”. While the DWP does not use a set definition of a “vulnerable” ... claimant: Mr. Pursglove said: “Claimants with serious mental health, or cognitive conditions who have difficulty ...
Two new mental health blogs
06 September 2016 | News
... with Disabilities we have published these two blogs In Mental health disabilities and ‘will and preferences’ George ... of mental ‘illness’ Ben Clubbs Coldron discusses how we can reframe the mental health debate away from hard ...
How Did We Get Involved In The Disability Rights Movement? DR UK Staff Blog Series! Part Three
14 August 2024 | News
... our paths into the disability movement, and learned just how much history and passion lies within our own staff team. ... family noticed that I was not reaching significant developmental milestones such as sitting up, crawling or walking. I ...
Mental health services failing Disabled children
16 February 2022 | News
More than 100,000 children have been discharged from mental health services before receiving any treatment, according to ... office. Children’s Mental Health Services 2020/21 shows that, although mental health spending on children’s ...
DR UK response to the Welfare Safety Net Inquiry
13 February 2019 | News
... in May 2010. Finally, figures obtained by Frank Field MP show that the amount spent on disabled people’s benefits ... a month related to their impairment or condition. What role does Universal Credit play in in relation to deprivation, or ... announced in Budget 2018 Budget, the charity stressed that much of the support will not come into force until July ...
Disabled man starved to death after DWP wrongly stopped his benefits
26 January 2020 | News
... after two failed safeguarding visits. The DWP somehow managed to stop an ESA payment that had been due to be ... Deprived of all financial support, experiencing significant mental distress and unable or unwilling to seek help, he ... likely that his mental health was poor at this time – he does not appear to be having contact with other people, and ...
Government must raise sick pay rate to living wage, urges disability charities and trade unions coalition
13 October 2022 | News
... that is better for workers, employers and Britain's public health.” In a joint open letter, dozens of disability charities and trade unions urge a major ... For instance, Mind found that two in three people with a mental health problem, who received Statutory Sick Pay, ...