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One week to stop Government cut to one in four pounds for future ESA claimants: Act Now!
15 February 2016 | News
Thanks to the campaigns of our members and allies, the House of Lords defeated the Government’s ... Support Allowance (ESA) from 2017 for new claimants in the ‘Work related activity group’. If the proposal ... get jobs. This will come back to the Commons on 23 February and, if you agree with us, we are urging you to write to ...
United call for benefits to increase by 6% from April 2022 due to cost of living crisis
09 February 2022 | News
... Disability Benefits Consortium, of which DR UK is a member, and over 30 other organisations - including the Child Poverty Action Group, The Trussell ... find it hard to pay for food than non-disabled people. “ Nearly half of everyone in poverty is either a Disabled ...
Disabled people receiving Support for Mortgage Interest will now be able to transfer this when moving home
17 June 2019 | News
Disabled people and others receiving Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) will now be able to ... when moving home, rather than having to repay the loan and reapply, the Government has announced. SMI is the help ...
What Next for Disabled People Living In The Dark? The Need For An Energy Tariff by Dan White
01 February 2024 | News
... social tariff while Ofgem resurrect Pre-payment forced installation, what next for Disabled people living in the ... also pledged to consider the same said thing in 2022, and this was doubled down on by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the then Energy Secretary Grant Shapps. The proposal ...
Election campaigners ‘living in parallel universe’ by not acknowledging a quarter of the UK population says Disability Rights UK
03 June 2024 | News
Election campaigners ‘living in parallel universe’ by not acknowledging a quarter ... UK’s population. With TV debates due to start this week, and almost two weeks into the election campaign, the often desperate needs and inequalities affecting 24% of the population have yet to ...
MPs publish report that aims "to take an axe to the root causes of destitution" in the UK
10 July 2019 | News
Two members of the Work and Pensions Committee, MPs Heidi Allen and Frank Field, today set out the beginnings of a reform programme that aims to take “an axe to ...
Hundreds of thousands “will plunge into poverty” as Minister rejects UK-wide call to keep Universal Credit uplift
31 August 2021 | News
The Work and Pensions Secretary, Dr Thérèse Coffey, has rejected a call by cross-party committees from Westminster, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Welsh Senedd and the Scottish Parliament. ...
DWP carried out more than 200 secret reviews into benefit deaths over the last decade, new figures suggest
10 June 2021 | News
The DWP has carried out secret reviews into more than 175 deaths of benefit claimants since ... reviews into deaths in 2019, the last full year before the pandemic; 22 reviews into deaths last year; and in total 126 reviews in the five years between January ...
Liz Sayce: The UK thinks it is a leader in disability rights. But it has a long way to go
15 August 2017 | News
The Guardian has today published a wide-ranging interview with Liz Sayce, Disability Right’s UK CEO ... moment”: “She believes it is crucial that protecting and securing rights is a priority, during a time when people ... disabilities have borne the brunt of austerity policies and disabled people’s organisations have had to ...
More than half of DLA claimants in receipt of the mobility component lose out on reassessment for PIP
27 May 2019 | News
The Minister for Disabled People Justin Tomlinson has said that ... been reassessed from DLA with a mobility component to PIP and that, of these, 52% had the amount either reduced or ... table below published by www.parliament.uk shows the number and proportion of DLA claimants who were in receipt of the ...