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Campaigners have written to the new prime minister to ask her to act urgently to prevent disabled people facing a “humanitarian crisis” this winter due to the “devastating and intensifying” levels of poverty they are facing. They warn Liz Truss in […]
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 […]
“Truly shocking” official statistics have exposed the deepening impact of the cost-of-living crisis on disabled people. The figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show how disabled people in Britain are being hit even harder by rising prices than non-disabled […]
The government has eased concerns that cost-of-living support for hundreds of thousands of disabled people in England announced by the Treasury last month – which should be worth hundreds of pounds – could have been snatched back by local authorities. Chancellor […]
A new coalition of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) is aiming to shine a spotlight on the “devastating impact” of the spiralling cost of living that is “threatening disabled people’s survival”. The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) warned this week that DPOs […]