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Campaigners have warned ministers that they will fight to ensure the government keeps its promise to introduce laws aimed at improving the protection offered to disabled air passengers. In its long-awaited response to a consultation on protecting air passengers – which […]
Tens of thousands of disabled people may have been deprived of their vote at May’s local elections in England because of the government’s new rules* on providing voter identification, a new report suggests. Data from polling stations shows that at least […]
Campaigners have told the information commissioner of their “deep concern” over his decision to allow the Treasury to hide information that would show how last year’s budget was set to impact disabled people and other equality groups. Women’s Budget Group, Runnymede […]
A press watchdog has received hundreds of complaints about a “toxic” article by the Daily Telegraph which asked its readers to calculate how much disabled people on out-of-work benefits were contributing to the country’s “tax burden”. The Telegraph wrote that millions […]
Government support for disabled people in dealing with the extra costs they face has “barely scratched the surface” of their needs, a disabled MP has told a House of Commons debate. Labour’s Marsha de Cordova told fellow MPs on Monday that […]
Fresh doubts have been raised about the impact on disabled people of government plans to scrap the work capability assessment as part of a controversial package of welfare reforms. As part of their Transforming Support white paper, ministers plan to abolish the […]
The government should commission an annual independent assessment of the level of benefits because they are “demonstrably” too low to meet people’s needs, a disabled people’s organisation (DPO) has told MPs. The Commons work and pensions committee was hearing evidence yesterday […]
Thousands of people with long-term health conditions are likely to have lost the right to vote in last week’s local elections in England, reports from campaigners suggest. Scores of people who have compromised or suppressed immune systems contacted the Evusheld for […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is refusing to release a document that would show how its controversial plans to scrap the work capability assessment would impact disabled people. Despite releasing documents that estimate the impact of less controversial parts […]
Disabled campaigners have given a guarded welcome to new rules that should stop energy companies forcibly installing prepayment meters in the homes of many disabled people. Ofgem said all energy suppliers had agreed a new code of practice which aims to […]