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Disability poverty campaign calls on PM to act urgently on prepayment meters

By John Pring on 26th January 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Disability poverty campaign calls on PM to act urgently on prepayment meters
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Disabled people’s organisations and allies have written to the prime minister to call for an immediate ban on energy companies forcibly installing pre-payment meters in the homes of disabled customers who have fallen into debt. The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) […]

Winter blackouts: Disabled people must draw up their own back-up plans, say ministers

By John Pring on 15th December 2022 Category: Politics

Winter blackouts: Disabled people must draw up their own back-up plans, say ministers
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The government and the energy industry have told disabled people whose lives depend on powered equipment in their homes to draw up their own back-up plans to protect themselves ahead of possible blackouts this winter. Both the government and the energy […]

Winter blackouts: Disabled customers’ fear over confusion on life-saving support

By John Pring on 15th December 2022 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Winter blackouts: Disabled customers’ fear over confusion on life-saving support
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Disabled people who rely on powered equipment in their homes to survive have expressed serious concerns at the government’s failure to provide clear information about how they will be protected in the event of power blackouts this winter. Disability News Service […]

Alarm grows over government’s ‘appalling’ blackout planning failure

By John Pring on 3rd November 2022 Category: Independent Living

Alarm grows over government’s ‘appalling’ blackout planning failure
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There is growing alarm over the government’s “appalling” and “deeply concerning” failure to show that disabled people who need electricity to run lifesaving medical equipment in their homes will be protected if there are power blackouts this winter. It is now […]

Three weeks on, still no sign of plans to protect disabled people in blackouts

By John Pring on 27th October 2022 Category: Independent Living

Three weeks on, still no sign of plans to protect disabled people in blackouts
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NHS bodies have this week been unable to point to any evidence that plans have been drawn up to protect people who need electricity to run lifesaving medical equipment in their homes, in the event of power blackouts this winter. It […]

Government ‘has made no proper blackout plans’ for disabled people

By John Pring on 20th October 2022 Category: Independent Living

Government ‘has made no proper blackout plans’ for disabled people
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Government departments and power companies have been unable to show any detailed preparations they have made to protect people who need electricity to run lifesaving medical equipment in their homes, and which could be affected by blackouts this winter. Neither the […]

Ofgem’s ‘very limited’ fuel price cap ‘will lead to deaths, ill-health and misery’

By John Pring on 23rd November 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Ofgem’s ‘very limited’ fuel price cap ‘will lead to deaths, ill-health and misery’
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The energy regulator’s “discriminatory” plans to impose only a “very limited” cap on fuel prices will “will lead to deaths, ill health and misery” for hundreds of thousands of disabled people, say campaigners. Fuel Poverty Action (FPA) and Disabled People Against […]

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