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DR UK welcomes the Govt review of 1.6 million PIP cases but...
29 January 2018 | News
... 1.6 million PIP cases , Philip Connolly, policy manager at Disability Rights UK said: “Many disabled people have lost ... is going to review 1.6 million cases. We hope this doesn’t mean that some disabled people are going to have ... is badly designed and implemented. Huge amounts of tax payer’s money is being wasted on poor quality assessments ...
Care and Support Alliance on new care criteria
23 October 2014 | News
... the highest needs. But the Government now confirms that it doesn’t plan to reverse the trend. Research by London School of Economics shows this means 340,000 people – who struggle to live on ... in the current care system and that care – along with health – is the place they’d most like to see greater ...
Leadership Academy Programme Year 2 Graduation
01 June 2016 | News
... designed for employees who have lived experience of disability and/or long term health conditions, who want to develop their careers. In ... we talked about all aspects of her work. It made me realise how rare it is, for those of us with disabilities to talk ...
DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into Disabled man’s death
03 January 2025 | News
... allowance (ESA) was withdrawn. He was suffering severe mental health problems and weighed four-and-a-half stone (30kg) ... “ John Pring of the Disability News Service (DNS) has shown how the DWP spent more than a decade covering up ...
Changes to the definition of "terminally ill" for the purposes of PIP, DLA and AA
03 April 2023 | News
... ill” for the purposes of personal independence payment (PIP), disability living allowance (DLA), and attendance allowance ... of people in their final year of life to have their disability benefits fast-tracked available from gov.uk. ...
DR UK: Government must re-introduce Covid protections for Disabled people
13 December 2021 | News
Disability Rights UK is calling on the Health Secretary ... DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick said: “We cannot stress enough how abandoned clinically vulnerable people feel and the ...
Summer Budget 2015
07 July 2015 | News
... Allowance, will be frozen for 4 years from 2016-17 (this doesn’t include Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payment, Employment and Support Allowance support group ...
Disability Poverty Campaign Group Urge The Government To Extend Household Support Fund
22 March 2024 | News
Today, Friday 22nd March, the Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) of which DR UK ... further into the abyss of poverty as other cost of living payments begin to end. This comes as we hear the news that ... people on the brink of destitution is not the answer. It does seem all help to lift Disabled people out of poverty ...
Meet Our Star Marathon Fundraiser, Aasia!
11 October 2024 | News
... I felt ready. I believe Disability Rights UK are fundamental in enabling access to justice and I’m just grateful ... helping people fight for their rights, and I’ve seen how hard that fight can be. But it’s also close to home. ... my family and my colleagues struggle against a system that doesn’t always make life easy for Disabled people. On top ...
DWP must ensure social security system supports the right to an adequate standard of living: new EHRC report
29 October 2020 | News
... the right to an adequate standard of living and it does not contribute to increasing material deprivation and ... steps including: a review of the five-week wait for first payments of universal credit; a review of the impact of ... who share protected characteristics. The EHRC report - How coronavirus has affected equality and human rights - ...