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Successful PIP appeals double in a decade
23 September 2019 | News
Disabled people are almost twice as likely to win their disability benefit appeal than they were 10 years ... about the overall quality of decision-making in DWP and they raise fresh concerns about the performance of outsourcing companies Atos and Capita, which are being paid hundreds of millions of ...
Trans and Disability Justice: How Are Our Struggles Linked?
17 April 2025 | News
... we start to question who deserves access to bodily autonomy and who doesn’t, it becomes a deathly game. A game Disabled people never win. Under the current welfare cut proposals and long history ... people are developing debilitating conditions and bladder problems from being unable to use public bathrooms for fear ...
Universal Credit: progress update report
24 February 2015 | News
The Department for Work and Pensions has spent £700 million on Universal Credit since the programme began in 2010 According to the Public ... needs to reflect on how it will tackle the potential problems of paying the housing benefit element of Universal ...
Challenging a poor flying experience if you are disabled
25 March 2018 | News
... was left on board a plane at Heathrow Airport, for 100 minutes, because his wheelchair had been misplaced by ground staff. John Holland-Kaye, CEO of Heathrow Airport, when interviewed on the ... also interviewed on the same programme (see 39.50 minutes and 51.30 minutes ). There were also phoned in comments ...
What’s the state of care in England?
16 October 2014 | News
... shows there are many excellent services but the variation in quality in England is unacceptably wide The report identifies several key ... heart of good care Providers should accept where there are problems and use our inspections to drive up quality The ...
The Demands For Disability and Climate Justice - Our Political Landscape Is Failing Us
20 February 2024 | News
Disability Rights UK's Policy and Campaigns Officer, Dan White, speaks about the need for drastic measures to prevent climate catastrophe, and how they will never be effective if they don't centre the most marginalised. He goes into the current political landscape, with ...
Extension of Blue Badge Scheme in England from 30 August 2019 to include those with hidden disabilities
01 September 2019 | News
From 30 August 2019, people living in England with "hidden disabilities" including autism and mental health problems are set for a major boost when they can apply for ...
DR UK response to news of 'extortionate' benefit assessors payouts
13 April 2017 | News
DR UK CEO Liz Sayce made the following comments on the news story that private companies ... had their cars taken away following their PIP assessment and government has issued new guidance on PIP which we ... and about and lead an independent life. There are 2 major problems with PIP: The policy framework, in particular ...
Inspiring story of one handed hairdresser
02 July 2013 | News
... to teach him how to do this because he was born with one hand and the received wisdom is that you need two hands to cut and style hair. Undeterred he set about learning how to style hair in his own unique way. He was lucky ... he started out as a professional hairdresser Ashley had problems gaining clients because people had preconceptions ...
Half a million Disabled people set to lose out when DWP scraps ‘work capability assessment test
31 July 2023 | News
... than half a million Disabled people are set to lose out financially through reforms to the disability benefit ... new Government figures suggest. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released statistics that suggest that ... health component of UC is extremely problematic. All the issues relating to the lack of accuracy of WCA assessments ...