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Around 60% of households with a disabled adult will be hit if £20 week UC uplift scrapped
16 February 2021 | News
... a week Universal Credit (UC) top-up will more than 700,000 into poverty, according to a new by the Fabian Society. Ministers have said that they will decide in early March whether to keep or scrap the temporary 12-month ... report shows how the cut to UC will reduce the living standards of households in many different circumstances: ...
Tell DEFRA if COVID-19 has impacted upon your food supply
23 April 2020 | News
... DEFRA would like to hear from you. Disability Rights UK continues to campaign for safe access to food and other essential items for disabled people during the ... Under Secretary of State at DEFRA is scheduled for early next week, as is a virtual meeting between, DEFRA, ...
DR UK statement on Wednesdays Budget.
05 March 2024 | News
As Jeremy Hunt stands in front of parliament this Wednesday to announce his Spring ... he will do so having been in receipt of the frankest and most demanding letter sent by the Disability Poverty ... to inaccessible and unaffordable housing. These issues are reported daily on the media and being ...
Accessing green space: stories from Sheffield
17 November 2023 | News
We have been re-publishing some of our older blog posts onto this new website. Enjoy the thoughts and reviews of our DR UK team and contributors! If you have ... is therefore imperative that people trying to solve access issues really listen to disabled people and work in ...
Council urged to bring forward decision to end social care charging
20 March 2023 | News
... with its "bold" decision to become just the second council in England to abolish all charges for care and support for Disabled ... and support services from April 2024, likely affecting nearly 1,300 who currently pay a charge for in-home care, ...
Alzheimer’s Society comments on the impact of cuts to social care
06 October 2015 | News
Hundreds of thousands of elderly and disabled people have their requests for help with social care declined in England according to data published by the Health ... to a huge increase in unnecessary hospital admissions, and early entry into care homes .' 'It's people with dementia, ...
Government criticised for huge active travel budget cuts
21 March 2023 | News
... been heavily criticised for a recent announcement that it intends to cut the active travel budget by an estimated ... a two-thirds cut to promised capital investment in walking and cycling. A Labour Party analysis has estimated that the ... long-term health conditions and avoided more than 29,000 early deaths. Mikey Erhardt, Policy and Campaigns Officer at ...
Government announces series of reforms meant to improve lives of disabled people
24 June 2019 | News
... on benefits, changes to statutory sick pay (SSP) and the forming of a cross-Government disability unit. Promises were ... in the Cabinet Office alongside the Race Disparities Unit. Early projects will include work with different departments ...
DWP ignored ‘hugely alarming’ research that linked WCA with 600 suicides, MPs are told
27 June 2022 | News
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ignored leading academics after they published “hugely alarming” ... – his own research suggested there were “still major problems with the WCA that could lead to increased risks of ...
ILF closure: what you can do
31 March 2014 | News
... Baroness Campbell of Surbiton raised a question, on the Independent Living Fund, for short debate in the Lords Grand Committee The question asked by Baroness Campbell of ... Living Fund (ILF) What you can do Get your MP to sign Early day motion 1234 to Save the Independent Living Fund ...