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Some disabled people forced to transfer across to the government’s new disability benefit are missing out on thousands of pounds of backdated payments, thanks to “grossly unfair” rules, say campaigners. Under the new personal independence payment (PIP) rules, existing disability living […]
A disabled campaigner had more than £70 a week of her disability benefit stripped from her for three months because she could not attend a back-to-work workshop that a government assessment had already concluded would be inaccessible to her. Catherine Hale […]
Posted by West Way Nissan: www.westwaynissan.co.uk The Motability scheme is a government-funded system that enables disabled people to lease a new car, scooter or electric wheelchair in exchange for their mobility allowance. You are eligible to join the Motability scheme if […]
Disabled people are far more likely to be successful in a claim for the much-criticised employment and support allowance (ESA) than the benefit it is replacing, incapacity benefit (IB), Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal. The figures came in a response […]
A disabled woman has described how she has been made to feel “helpless” after waiting more than a year to be assessed for the government’s new disability benefit. Beverley Daniel lodged her claim on 5 September 2013 and despite calling the […]
Ministers have been accused of “hypocrisy” after admitting funding disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) in developing countries to produce critical reports for the UN on their own governments, but refusing to fund DPOs for similar work in the UK. The shadow reports […]
A leading Deaf performer who was prevented by the mayor of London’s security staff from handing out campaigning leaflets during a disability arts festival has described their actions as “undemocratic” and “creepy”. David Bower had handed out some of the leaflets […]
Disabled artists have given a mixed response to this year’s Liberty disability arts festival, which was overshadowed again by National Paralympic Day (NPD). A low-key line-up on the main stage, combined with continuing huge public interest in Britain’s Paralympians, put Liberty […]
The government’s Access to Work (AtW) programme is plagued by “penny-pinching”, administrative incompetence, and “rude” and “intimidatory” communication that is causing disabled people “immense distress”, leading campaigners have told a committee of MPs. The Commons work and pensions committee was hearing […]
A Deaf youth worker says endless problems with the support he is supposed to obtain through the government’s Access to Work (AtW) scheme have made it impossible to focus on his job. Matt Talbot runs a youth forum for young disabled […]