DON'T ABOLISH ATTENDANCE ALLOWANCE
Why is this important? A single paragraph in the Local Government Finance Settlement published before Christmas sounded the death knell for attendance allowance (AA).
6 Feb 2016
News
If even the DWP isn’t Disability Confident, how will a million disabled people get jobs? – Bernadette Meaden
Nobody would expect a person who suffers blackouts to drive a bus or bin waggon once they had thought through the potentially devastating consequences. But political, cultural, psychological and financial coercion is being used to force people sick and disabled people to work - the government continues to cut welfare, which was calculated originally to cover only the costs of meeting basic needs. Cruel sanctions and strict, inflexible, often unreasonable behavioural conditions are being imposed on lifeline benefit receipt, adversely affecting some of our poorest and most vulnerable citizens; unemployed and disabled people are stigmatised in the media - all of this is done with an utterly callous disregard of a person's capacity to work, and importantly, the availabilty of appropriate and suitable employment opportunities, and this can have tragic consequences.
6 Feb 2016
Stop financially penalising disabled people
To: The Government
6 Feb 2016
Network Rail is ‘leading industry on access by following Olympic path’
The public body responsible for 18 of Britain's biggest rail stations is following the lead of the Olympic Delivery Authority and putting disabled people at the heart of its design process, according to its access and inclusion manager.
6 Feb 2016
Disabled people are falling through holes in local welfare safety net, warn MPs
A committee of MPs has called on the government to stop local authorities discriminating against disabled people who need financial help following the introduction of the "bedroom tax".
6 Feb 2016
Hearing aid cuts abandoned
Posted on 13/01/2016
26 Jan 2016