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DPOs demand chancellor accepts seven-point plan to save lives this winter

By John Pring on 18th August 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DPOs demand chancellor accepts seven-point plan to save lives this winter
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Campaigning disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have called on the chancellor to accept a seven-point plan that they believe will save disabled people’s lives this winter. Members of the Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) have told Nadhim Zahawi that the millions of […]

Government’s cost-of-living ‘sticking plaster’ is ‘no long-term fix’

By John Pring on 2nd June 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Government’s cost-of-living ‘sticking plaster’ is ‘no long-term fix’
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Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will each miss out on £650 in crucial support, because of the government’s failure to target new cost-of-living funding at some of the groups most in need, disabled campaigners have warned. Disabled people’s organisations said […]

DPO to call for London’s mayor to do more for disabled people on cost-of-living

By John Pring on 5th May 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DPO to call for London’s mayor to do more for disabled people on cost-of-living
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A pan-London disabled people’s organisation (DPO) is to call on the capital’s mayor to do more to support disabled Londoners hit by the unfolding cost-of-living crisis. Inclusion London said this week that food and energy bills have been rising sharply over […]

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