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Now the referendum is over, let’s focus on disability

By sponsored post on 3rd October 2014 Category: Archive, News Archive

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Posted by Bathing Solutions: www.bathingsolutions.co.uk Britain has been concentrating on the Scottish independence referendum over the past few months almost at the expense of other issues, such as those concerning disability. Now that the referendum is finished with, we can go […]

How Motability works

By west way nissan on 9th September 2014 Category: Archive, News Archive

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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 […]

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By John Pring on 11th August 2014 Category: Archive, News Archive

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Users of the Independent Living Fund, including Anne Pridmore (centre with red hat) were outside the Royal Courts of Justice with other disabled activists in March 2013. Pridmore and four other ILF-users were asking the high court to overturn government plans […]

The List

By John Pring on 7th July 2014 Category: Archive, News Archive

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Who are the disabled people who have the most significant impact on the way we live today? Well over a year after Disability News Service began the process of finding the UK’s most influential disabled people, we are finally ready to […]

War memorial

By John Pring on 6th July 2014 Category: Archive, News Archive

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Actors, MPs, religious leaders and disabled activists – including organisers of the War On Welfare (WOW) petition – united for a memorial service outside parliament to highlight the human cost of the government’s austerity programme, such as the 10,000 people who died shortly after […]

The List

By guest on 6th July 2014 Category: Archive, News Archive

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Who are the disabled people who have the most significant impact on the way we live today? Well over a year after Disability News Service began the process of finding the UK’s most influential disabled people, we are finally ready to […]

Life in the PIP queue: One year and counting for claimant with cancer

By John Pring on 9th May 2014 Category: Archive, Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Life in the PIP queue: One year and counting for claimant with cancer
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A disabled man with cancer has been forced to wait more than a year for a decision on his claim for the coalition’s new disability benefit, thanks to a “catalogue of incompetence” by the company paid to assess him. Disability News […]

When should you disclose your impairment to a potential employer?

By mobility superstore on 6th May 2014 Category: Archive, News Archive

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Posted by The Mobility Superstore: www.themobilitysuperstore.co.uk It’s the age-old question that millions of disabled people have had to grapple with over the years: When should people disclose an impairment or health condition to an employer? Disabled jobseekers often do an awful […]

Is the ‘bedroom tax’ hitting disabled people hardest?

By mobility superstore on 22nd March 2014 Category: Archive, News Archive

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Posted by The Mobility Superstore: www.themobilitysuperstore.co.uk As the government’s austerity programme starts to bite, it seems that people living with disability could be bearing the brunt. The coalition’s so-called bedroom tax involves cutting housing benefit for those people in social housing […]

COMMENT: The Independent Living Fund: ‘We fight on!’

By John Pring on 7th March 2014 Category: Archive

COMMENT: The Independent Living Fund: ‘We fight on!’
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By Stuart Bracking The decision by the current Disabled People’s Minister Mike Penning to press ahead with the closure of the Independent Living Fund is clearly very disappointing, and has been greeted in one discussion forum with dismay by severely disabled […]

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