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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 ...
ILF celebrates 27 years of providing support
04 June 2015 | News
... people from the ILF, DWP, local authorities, ILF users, and people committed to independent living gathered to celebrate 27 years of ... but there have been plenty of words said on this already and I don't intend to repeat them here, well not all of them ...
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) ...
Care Act: Part 1 Guidance published
22 October 2014 | News
... authorities Today sees the long awaited publication of the final guidelines and regulations underpinning part 1 of the Care Act 2014. ... It marks the culmination of a long process of consultation and argument about social care reform dating back to when ...
Vince Cable visits disability entrepreneurs
07 July 2014 | News
Dr Vince Cable to examine disability entrepreneurship in visit ... Rights UK The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Dr Vince Cable is to visit University College ... a guest of Disability Rights UK, the national charity for and led by disabled people, on Thursday June 26 th 2014 ...
DR UK says ESA cut will not be offset by other measures
07 March 2016 | News
In the last few weeks the House of Lords twice voted against ... when disabled people so often live in deep poverty; and, as the eloquent speeches from peers and the powerful ... and sickness benefit).' The risk that we are clearly facing is that from 2017, many disabled people will ...