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Prepayment meters, the hopeful end of a energy nightmare.
03 February 2023 | News
Pre-payment meters have hit the headlines again today and finally for the right reason. Yesterday ... many disability campaigners already knew, that energy firms and their contractors together with the courts and ...
Electoral Commission data reveals impacts of Voter ID on Disabled people
28 June 2023 | News
The Electoral Commission has published interim analysis on Voter ID, which needed to be used for ... Certificates was low – around 90,000 people applied, and around 25,000 used the Certificate as a form of ID to ... voting age, with the right residential or citizen status, and not subject to legal incapacity, can vote. It is ...
Extra costs faced by Disabled people continue to rise
24 September 2024 | News
... updated its Disability Price Tag report for the second year in succession. It shows that the cost of living with a ... amount of money a disabled household needs, to equal the standard of living of a non-Disabled household. The findings ... of last year’s report put this amount at £975 per month, and the latest findings show an increase of £35, bringing ...
Grenfell 5 years on
14 June 2022 | News
... have sent to the Times Editor alongside Grenfell United and Claddag. Letter to The Times Editor Grenfell, 5 years ... Despite Boris Johnson’s pledge to implement the Grenfell inquiry recommendations in full, none have been implemented. ... unaided. Evacuation plans would mean disabled residents, and those around them, would feel confident in an emergency. ...
Taxi Tax Hits Disabled People Disproportionately
15 April 2025 | News
... at a proposed 20 per cent levy on services like Uber and Bolt. Stephen Brookes, the transport policy adviser at ... have no other viable transport options, are already grappling with soaring living costs, while personal independence payments are cut. “A move that impacts on and sidelines Disabled people, all in the name of propping ...
Data reveals extent of the prepayment meter scandal
29 March 2023 | News
Ofgem announced last month that the ban on the forced installation of Prepayment meters under warrant was to be ... crisis. Ofgem are now reviewing the use of PPMs and companies have been instructed to offer compensation to ... the duplicitous behaviour of energy firms. To hear that nearly 94,000 meters were forced installed last year is ...
DR UK demands a more accessible housing system
20 October 2022 | News
... the government on proposed changes to the social rented and private rented sector. In our first response to the government consultation: ... second response to the consultation: “A Decent Homes Standard in the private rented sector ”, focused on the need ...
Stories of Success from DR UK’s Leadership Academy
29 June 2023 | News
Zoey Empson, a candidate on our Leadership Academy Programme, gives some testimony about the impact our programme had on her and her life. “During my career progression and advancement, I was offered ...
Further austerity will cause more avoidable deaths of Disabled people, warns DPOs coalition
16 November 2022 | News
The DPO Forum England, a group of Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) ... affect Disabled people, millions of whom are already living in poverty in the UK as there is “nothing left to ... that: Austerity is already responsible for tens of thousands of excess deaths in the UK The UN Committee on the ...
A New Year Message on the Access to Work scheme
21 January 2025 | News
Wasn’t it great to see Chris Mccausland, blind comedian and winner of Strictly, deliver the Channel 4 alternative ...