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Claimants with severe disability premium prevented from claiming universal credit
31 January 2019 | News
From 16 January 2019 new regulations prevent those receiving the severe disability premium (SDP) in a working age ... - an award of income support, income-related employment and support allowance, income-based jobseeker's allowance or ... continue to claim the above existing ‘legacy benefits’ and tax credits. This means that they will only move to ...
DWP admits 'Access to Work' support is failing Disabled people
14 February 2025 | News
MPs at a select committee hearing heard about the struggles facing many Disabled claimants ... funding that can pay for things like specialist equipment and assistive software for a Disabled person, support ... vulnerabilities", with one of his constituents waiting nearly six months for their application to be approved. ...
Kamran Mallick: 'I want to change the world for disabled people'
22 May 2018 | News
... of Disability Rights UK on how the organisation is campaigning to remove the kind of discrimination he faced. Read full ... the head when she stood next to his wheelchair. Now 45, and almost a year into his role as chief executive of ... and youth groups for disabled people in order to understand issues “from the grassroots”. In the coming months, he ...
About our 'In the Making' project
12 August 2014 | News
A successful bid to the Arts and Humanities Research Council is set to make disabled people pioneers in a new industrial revolution Researchers and disability rights campaigners have collaborated to ...
Actions paused in Government’s Disability Strategy
06 September 2022 | News
In January 2022, the High Court declared that the National ... to be "consultation". The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has sought permission to appeal the High Court's decision, and the Court of Appeal's ruling on whether permission to ...
Independent Living Fund: post-closure review
19 January 2017 | News
... assessment of the experiences of the closure of the Independent Living Fund in England. View report Summary of findings The Independent Living ... high support needs. It was permanently closed in June 2015 and the responsibility for supporting ILF recipients in ...
Covid causing huge rise in Disability
06 April 2021 | News
At least 122,000 NHS staff have Long Covid according to new Office for National Statistics data that also ... Covid, raising fears of stretched Special Educational Needs and Disability support. And the ONS has found that around 30,000 social care workers ...
Disabled peoples stories of leaving institutions
11 June 2013 | News
Disabled People in the UK share their stories of leaving institutions Press ... from people with learning disabilities. Devised and researched by Disabled People’s user-led organisation CHANGE, the report has been supported and funded by Lumos, the charity founded by JK Rowling to ...
19 disabled people murdered in Japan
25 July 2016 | News
Disability Rights UK is shocked and alarmed at the news that 19 disabled people have been killed at a residential care centre in the Japanese city of Sagamihara. It appears that the ... says: “Hate Crime is an abhorrence Disability Rights UK and the Disability Hate Crime Network are continually ...
New rights for carers in Wales
08 June 2014 | News
... carers will have new rights. Under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 , which comes into force from April 2016, carers of any age who provide unpaid care and support to a relative, friend or neighbour who needs ...