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Government ends disabled students Universal Credit entitlement without knowing how many affected
06 August 2017 | News
Government regulations barring most disabled students Universal Credit seems to have ... which replaces means tested benefits such as Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Housing Benefit (HB) is being increasingly 'rolled ...
Policy Network of Members
27 November 2013 | News
Policy has to be a living statement of an organisation’s principles. An ... policy informs its response to external developments and good policy is key to the ability of an organisation to have influence. As the new Policy and Communications Manager of Disability Rights UK in line ...
Leading disability organisations call for halt to ESA cuts
28 February 2017 | News
Leading disability organisations stage 11th hour call for ... cuts to disability benefits ahead of Budget. Open letter and protest arranged to oppose Government’s disability ... disabled people to get in to work, despite a recent Work and Pensions Select Committee report highlighting that ...
Love it or hate it? Here’s your chance to Rate it!
04 December 2018 | News
Rate it! is a new, DRILL funded website that offers disabled and older people a space to share their views and reviews of products that can help to make life easier. ... too long, there hasn’t been anywhere for disabled people in the UK to share their views and read reviews about small- ...
National Disability Strategy declared unlawful: Disability Rights UK comment
25 January 2022 | News
... Rights CEO Kamran Mallick said: “We have a phrase in the disability community: ‘nothing about us without ... I pay tribute to the Disabled people who fought for justice and gained this landmark ruling. “A Disability Strategy formulated ...
LINks good practice online resources
14 May 2013 | News
Disability Rights UK helping to strengthen the transition from LINks (Local ... contains further background, and there are is also a repository of further relevant ... Networks (LINks) as the "consumer voice" in health and social care. It is important that local Healthwatch ...
SSAC consult on alleged ESA loophole closure
07 December 2014 | News
The Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) is consulting on the Government's proposals to close a “loophole” relating to repeat claims for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) . Claimants whose award of ... determination to protect the benefit system from abuse and to close off opportunities for exploitation by a ...
Disabled people face biggest average benefit reduction under Universal Credit says new study
02 February 2016 | News
Universal Credit (UC) promises a more streamlined system but, unlike its original intention, will offer ... release Robert Joyce, an Associate Director at the IFS and an author of the report, said: “The long run effect of ... universal credit should make the system easier to understand, ease transitions into and out of work, and largely get ...
True portability of social care
22 May 2013 | News
... but there is concern about Local Authority processes and restrictions Disability Rights UK welcomes the publication of Think Local Act Personal’s second national survey of people ... budgets. The survey of 3,300 people with personal budgets and carers was carried out for TLAP by In Control and the ...
May Rail Timetable Chaos blamed on system wide failure
03 December 2018 | News
... The Parliamentary Transport Select Committee says in its December report that swift reform is needed to restore passenger trust in railways and this must include effective contingency plans and stringent enforcement for disabled passengers. DRUK ...