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Energy firms stop forced installation of pre-payment meters
10 February 2023 | News
Energy firms have agreed to stop forced installation of prepayment meters in the homes of ... people. The new Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Grant Shapps, has announced that Energy ... which failed to protect their vulnerable customers and were then using courts and bailiffs to force entry to ...
Report exposes shocking rise in levels of food-poverty related illness
20 July 2023 | News
New data obtained by The Times has found that cases of malnutrition in the UK have more than doubled in a decade and have quadrupled since 2007/8. Findings which were ... 312 children — were hospitalised with malnutrition in England. This was exposed alongside figures that showed that ...
1 in 4 Councils will not act on Taxi Discrimination Law
24 July 2017 | News
New law requiring taxi drivers not to discriminate against wheelchair ... maintain a designated list of wheelchair accessible taxis and PHVs (Private Hire Vehicles). Earlier, in February, ... taxi users as accessible transport is both an ongoing and growing concern for disabled people. However, the ...
Scottish Parliament Bedroom Tax statement
07 May 2014 | News
Bedroom Tax and Discretionary Housing Payments On 7 May 2014 the Scottish Parliament heard the ... United Kingdom Government on Friday, I wanted to take an early opportunity to update Parliament on the Scottish ...
More than half of the UK population living in destitution are in long term ill health or are disabled people: new JRF research
08 December 2020 | News
... highlights that more than half of the population (54%) living in destitution were in long term ill health or disabled ... in the processing of disability-related benefits claims and appeals had had a detrimental effect on those involved. ... hit participants with mental health or drug or alcohol problems especially hard, as they felt much less benefit ...
Care home petition calls for visits to be enshrined in law
05 May 2021 | News
A petition calling for a change in UK law to allow visits to care homes in the event of ... been required to isolate for 14 days after visiting friends and family outdoors or going for a walk. Care home residents ...
Scandal of low percentage of indefinite PIP awards
26 July 2018 | News
DR UK demands to know why only 18.1% of PIP awards have been for an indefinite period. “Heidi Allen MP, recently asked a ... by Sarah Newton MP for the period between April 2013 and 30 th April 2018, revealed a shockingly low number of ...
Over 1.5 million people were destitute in the UK in 2017
06 June 2018 | News
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is calling for the redesign of the social security system to ensure ... the bare essentials that we all need to eat, stay warm and dry, and keep clean. Read JRF report: Destitution in the ... 2018 report says serious physical health and mental health problems were reported by almost half of all destitute ...
Government’s New Guidance: Make Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles More Accessible
21 November 2023 | News
Ministers have urged councils to act on new government ... guidance to help improve the accessibility of taxis and minicabs in their area. Taxis and private hire vehicles (PHVs) are regulated by local ...
Chairs of all UK cross-party committees urge £20 week UC uplift to be kept and extended to legacy benefits
25 July 2021 | News
The Chairs of the following UK cross-party committees have written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions urging ... education, justice and other social services. It is also clearly unfair that those in receipt of legacy and other ...