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Sign The Petition To Defend Vital Benefits For Disabled People Unable To Work
30 January 2024 | News
DR UK is urging support for a new disability benefits campaign, Security ... is backed by a petition to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions calling for the scraping of dangerous ... says: “Disability benefits provide essential security and support for seriously ill and Disabled people, helping ...
What has the DDA done for you?
04 November 2020 | News
On Sunday 8 November, it will be 25 years since the passing of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), ... 20 years after legislation outlawing race discrimination and sex discrimination, and we can thank the disability rights campaigners of the ...
Minister says Universal Credit designed to encourage disabled people to take up education – but doesn’t explain how
22 August 2017 | News
Regulations barring most disabled students from getting Universal Credit ... Government – on the grounds the new benefit “encourages and enables” disabled people to take up further education. Receipt of ESA and HB means that disabled students can top-up their student ...
MPs say housing cost reform hurts disabled people
01 April 2014 | News
House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee: Support for housing costs in the reformed welfare system - Fourth Report of ... Size Criteria (SSSC) (also known as the “Bedroom Tax” and the “Spare Room Subsidy”) and the household Benefit ...
Nearly half of disabled people hit by the benefits freeze can’t afford essential bills
01 September 2019 | News
New research from Citizens Advice shows that nearly half of disabled people hit by the benefits freeze (44%) have gone without essentials such as food and toiletries. From April 2016 there has be no increase in benefit rates ‘for people of working age'. ...
Review calls for overhaul of Disabled Facilities Grants
11 December 2018 | News
Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) and Other Adaptations: External Review. Full Review and summary Foundations press release This review of was ... University of the West of England, Foundations, the Building Research Establishment (BRE) and Ferret Information ...
Disability Charities Consortium manifesto for the National Disability Strategy
02 February 2021 | News
... of the Disability Charities Consortium (DCC), which brings CEOs and policy leads from the UK’s leading influential ... (RNIB), Royal National Institute for Deaf people (RNID), and Business Disability Forum (BDF). We created a manifesto ...
Attitudes to disabled people since Paralympics
08 July 2014 | News
Nearly 70% of the British public feel attitudes towards disabled people have improved since the London Paralympic Games in 2012, the Government ... claims. The claim is based on analysis of The ONS Opinions and Lifestyle Survey . This is a national cross-sectional ...
DWP should immediately stop benefit sanctions imposed on disabled people or those with a health condition say MPs
06 November 2018 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee says that there is no evidence that ... “worse, it is harmful and counterproductive.” Read more In its Benefit Sanctions report the Committee highlights ... off benefits when their health or other critical factors clearly make this inappropriate. Disability Rights UK will ...
Parliamentary Review calls for reverse of £30 week cut to ESA
07 December 2015 | News
Halving The Gap? A review by Lord Low of Dalston CBE, Baroness Meacher and Baroness Grey-Thompson DBE A parliamentary review ... the amount of money that new claimants in the employment and support allowance work related activity group (ESA WRAG) ...