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Benefit Essentials with Disability Rights UK and CPAG - July 2024
30 January 2024 | Event
... Poverty Action Group (CPAG), we're delighted to be offering a new introductory level course for professionals ... workers, support workers, advocates, volunteer advisers and anyone else supporting clients with welfare benefits issues. Participants will gain an understanding of the ...
Benefit Essentials with Disability Rights UK and CPAG - October 2024
30 January 2024 | Event
... Poverty Action Group (CPAG), we're delighted to be offering a new introductory level course for professionals ... workers, support workers, advocates, volunteer advisers and anyone else supporting clients with welfare benefits issues. Participants will gain an understanding of the ...
Benefits must rise by inflation, says DR UK
04 October 2022 | News
... Government’s failure to confirm its previous assurance to increase benefits in line with inflation from April 2023 is ... subject to the review by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, benefits will be uprated by this September’s ... disability living allowance, personal independence payment, and attendance allowance being increased annually by ...
Student Days - A Memoir Piece on Personal Assistants
16 January 2024 | News
One of DR UK's Trustees, Madeline Close, shares with us a chatty and touching piece of writing reminiscing on her student ... get ready for a morning lecture. And when you are in your early twenties, who wants to live in a care home with ...
Disability Rights UK attends Climate Change event in London
26 April 2023 | News
Last week DR UK attended the Extinction Rebellion event in London called the Big one. The ... who descended on Parliament square to talk, march, & to demand change when it comes to policy and action on climate ... acknowledged that to date, very little work has explored issues around people with disabilities and ...
Disabled People Not Supported in Electoral Reforms, New Report Finds
21 March 2024 | News
... registration system for local government elections in England and UK General Elections, asking that an urgent ... up, Housing and Communities Select Committee found issues with the implementation of recent electoral ...
Little evidence to back up Universal Credit introduction - biggest welfare reform in 50 years
07 March 2018 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee publishes its assessment of reviews of Universal Credit, carried out by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA). Find out more ... For further information on welfare rights, education issues and social care you will find our factsheets/guides ...
General Election manifestos 2017
01 June 2017 | News
This page contains summaries of and a link to the main 2017 general election party ... care forthcoming green paper will also address system-wide issues to improve the quality of care and reduce variation ... someone with a disability, those with chronic mental health problems, and those who have been unemployed for over a ...
Lu's Story - Student, challenging University Accommodation decisions
06 March 2025 | News
Lu, student and helpline caller, tells her story of when she challenged ... in a news article about disabled students having similar problems to me. I argued that I shouldn’t have to pay any ...
DWP’s ‘failing assessment system is increasing poverty and worsening mental health’
27 June 2022 | News
The Government’s “failing” and “pseudo-scientific” benefits assessment system is increasing disability poverty and worsening claimants’ mental health, the Disability ...