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Scope offers four strategies to reduce the Disability Price Tag
13 March 2019 | News
... for 2019, reveals the extra costs faced by disabled people and families with disabled children. Read The Disability Price Tag Key findings for disabled people: On average disabled people face ... can be more effectively targeted at disabled people. Early Intervention and Family Resilience fund Set up an ...
Many thousands of women owed compensation following DWP failure to communicate changes to State Pension age
25 March 2024 | News
A comprehensive investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service ... State Pension age: our findings on injustice and associated issues is available from ombudsman.org.uk. Note: In a ...
Delegation to meet Anne McGuire
05 September 2013 | News
A delegation of disabled people and allies will be meeting Anne McGuire, Shadow Minister, on 10 September. This meeting came about because both she and the Minister failed to attend National Disabilities ...
Making mental health matter more
19 January 2014 | News
Today the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg addressed a conference which brought together mental health experts, charities and users of mental health services to talk about how mental ... aim to make the system fairer for people with mental health problems. Today, the research institute RAND Europe has ...
Disability Poverty Campaign Group statement on Modernising Support for Independent Living: The Health and Disability Green Paper.
30 April 2024 | News
Yesterday, Mel Stride MP, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, announced plans to reform the benefits system which has now been set out in a paper entitled Modernising Support for Independent ... support with the cost of living. The DWP's own data clearly shows the extent to which disabled households were ...
MPs launch public survey and new inquiry asking “How effective have cost of living support payments been?”
05 April 2023 | News
As part of its new inquiry – “Are cost of living support payments reaching everyone in need of help?” – the Work and Pensions Committee of MPs has launched a survey seeking ... from those in receipt of cost of living support payments and those who think they should have been in receipt of such ...
VODG raises concerns as HMRC "jumps the gun" on sleep in payments
19 August 2018 | News
Following the Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake Court of Appeal judgement on sleep in payments VODG, and wider sector bodies, have called on government to make a decision and to be clear about what changes it is proposing ahead of ...
“I always wondered why someone didn’t do something about that… then I realised I was someone…”
03 July 2024 | News
... writes about her experience as a parent-carer fighting alongside her son, Fraser, for accessible facilities in ... story of campaigning change by Disabled people, carers and our loved ones. I love the place I call home. A town in which I’ve lived since my birth 44 years ago, and a place where I now get to watch my own children grow ...
Complete the survey to keep the Universal Credit £20 week increase and to extend it to ESA
12 January 2021 | News
... people. Especially given the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and restrictions (especially with the new national lockdown in place). The DBC says: “In April 2020, the Government ...
Bedroom tax human rights appeal fails
20 February 2014 | News
... High Court decision had accepted that the bedroom tax in relation to adults was discriminatory, but that this was objectively and reasonably justified and therefore lawful because discretionary payments are ...