Technological and social progress mean the government is right to look at reducing benefits and support for disabled people and campaigns against cuts risk undermining inclusion, argues disability issues consultant, trainer and activist Simon Stevens. It appears to be currently extremely fashionable to be against the welfare reforms and cuts. I must make it very [...]
User-led charity Disability Rights UK has done an interesting analysis of government plans for 500,000 people to lose access to disability living allowance by 2015-16, which finds it leading to significant extra costs in out-of-work benefits, social care and health.This is because DLA recipients who are in work will find it harder to stay in [...]
What does a fair society look like? Well, the Campaign for a Fair Society has issued an eight-point manifesto today setting out its view. Social care would be free at the point of delivery, disabled people would be freed from institutionalisation and everyone would be guaranteed a reasonable minimum income through benefits.The campaign was launched [...]
Charities are warning that disabled people are facing abuse on the streets and accused of faking their conditions due to the government’s cuts to benefits for the group, reports The Guardian.Some are declining to use disabled parking bays lest they accused of not being worthwhile recipients of support for their impairment, with people with less [...]
Sixteen votes. That’s all it took for the government’s reforms to disability living allowance – which will see 500,000 people lose out on the benefit – to stay on track. However, campaigners say they have won significant concessions from government.An amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill lodged by athlete and crossbench peer Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson [...]
The ongoing battle over the government’s cuts to (or reform of) disability living allowance is reaching crisis point.Today, as the House of Lords prepares to debate the proposals in the Welfare Reform Bill, 16 charities have written a letter pressing the government to call a halt to the bill and subject its plans to replace [...]
Disability groups were celebrating last night after the House of Lords amended the Welfare Reform Bill to protect some disabled and sick claimants of employment and support allowance from cuts.Government plans to limit ESA to one year for people with some prospect of work and with some savings or a partner in work were scrapped [...]
The government has decided to reverse its decision to scrap the mobility compentent of the disability living allowance, reports have revealed.We’ve an interview with Maria Miller, minister for disabled people, this afternoon, so keep an eye on the site!
We reported last week that the government is expected to announce that it will reverse plans to scrap mobility payments for state-funded disabled people.Well, a story today from The Times (behind a pay wall) has all but confirmed this. In it, disability minister Maria Miller (pictured) is quoted as rejecting the central case for change [...]
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It is written by Community Care’s adults’ services beat editor Mithran Samuel.
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