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New report finds disability employment rates rise higher than those for non-disabled
13 January 2019 | News
Setting the record straight: How record employment has changed ... increase in employment in the United Kingdom between 2008 and 2018. The definition of disability is based on the 1995 ... a rise in the proportion of people reporting mental health problems. At the same, time employment rates have increased ...
Almost half of food bank users have money taken by DWP from benefit payments
30 November 2020 | News
... Trust has published a new report - Lift the Burden - revealing that one in two households at food banks (47%), already ... error, makes it harder for people to afford the essentials and can affect people’s mental health. More than half of ... at food banks where someone was living with mental health problems reported they owed money to the government through ...
Three quarters of people referred to Trussell Trust food banks report that they or a member of their household is Disabled
04 July 2023 | News
New landmark UK research by the Trussell Trust in its most in-depth study to date on hunger reveals its ... often overlap, but all conditions – from mental health issues, to physical and learning disabilities – are more ...
Over 460% rise in PIP claims stopped due to failure to return review form
15 February 2023 | News
New figures, released by Tom Pursglove, the Minister for Disabled People, show that in 2017, 7,500 claims ... return their form on time. However, he maintained that PIP and disability living allowance claimants who fail to return ... those who need additional support? These are all issues that need answers." Scores of deaths of claimants in ...
Current employment programmes fail disabled people
10 July 2013 | News
... deserve better than current employment programmes Speaking at the Welfare to Work Conference yesterday Liz ... employment - against a performance target of 16.5 per cent (and even that is not high). Work Choice has slightly better ... in 8 months it only helped 80 people with mental health problems get jobs in the whole country. One NHS Trust in ...
Our popular mandatory reconsideration workshop
10 December 2013 | News
Martin Williams and Mike Spencer of Child Poverty Action Group ... us an inspiring number of ideas for challenging the new mandatory reconsideration before appeals rule at our workshop ... duty or discriminate against people with mental health problems. The other main topic was what you can do if you ...
Disability campaigners ask for ban on prepayment meters
26 January 2023 | News
Recent months have seen Disabled and other financially vulnerable people being subject to warrants that ... Debt collection agents acting on behalf of nation’s gas and electricity supply companies have enforced more than ...
Improved protections against forced fitting of pre-payment meters
19 April 2023 | News
... has announced a new code of practice, which bans the forced installation of Prepayment meters (PPMs) for people with ... 85, people with health conditions that worsen in the cold and those with health related equipment. The new voluntary ... years of age. Households with residents with severe health issues including terminal illnesses or those with a medical ...
DR UK writes to Minister for Disabled People to press for £20 week increase to ESA
23 June 2020 | News
Following a recent roundtable meeting with the Minister for ... Credit increase to ESA. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government announced an temporary emergency ... April 2020 survey of over 200 disabled people found that: nearly all (95%) had seen an increase in their costs as a ...
Dr Lisa Cameron MP leads debate on United Nations Day of Persons with Disabilities in the House of Commons
13 December 2021 | News
Change is needed “right at the top” to help increase representation of people with disabilities in ... told by Dr Lisa Cameron MP for East Kilbride Strathaven and Lesmahagow. The MP, who chairs the All-Party ... with Disabilities in the House of Commons and to raise issues of ongoing inequality in education, employment, ...