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DR UK response to Right to Control pilots
29 August 2013 | News
Evaluation of the Right to Control pilots does not prove that the right to control pilots have failed
Our response to the consultation on assisted digital strategy, online conviction and statutory fixed fines
28 November 2016 | News
Disability Rights UK response to the Ministry of Justice Consultation Transforming our justice system: assisted digital strategy, online conviction and statutory fixed fines
Note: Disability Rights UK member Mind has also done a response, highlighting problems with mental health tribunals
Disability Rights UK (DR UK) is a pan disability membership organisation
Key notes from DRUK's annual Conference
19 November 2019 | News
... first. This isn’t ideal. But what if tech can prep a business in advance? What if a geofence is attached to top ... tips on how to help a person with specific needs? So the business is alerted, and hooked into support networks for ...
Disabled students to lose entitlement to Universal Credit from this week
14 December 2021 | News
Disability Rights UK has written to the Secretary of State Therese Coffey, urging the removal of new regulations barring Higher Education Disabled Students from Universal Credit.
The new benefit rules, which come into force on 15 December 2021, provide that a Disabled person entitled to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) can only be eligible for Universal Credit (UC) if they are determined as having a “limited capability for work” before they start their degree course.
Improved support needed for disabled university students
13 July 2020 | News
... which DR UK co-provides the secretariat along with Warwick Business School) recently highlighted the continuing ...
Atos, Capita, and Maximus PIP and WCA assessment contracts increased by up to two years
12 July 2020 | News
The Minister for Disabled People Minister Justin Tomlinson has announced that the DWP’s current contracts for PIP and work capability assessments are to be extended for up to two years.
The healthcare providers for PIP assessments are Atos and Capita, with Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (Maximus) provides work capability assessments for ESA and Universal Credit purposes.
End of lockdown: one size fits all approach fails shielders
22 June 2020 | News
... who cannot work from home can go back to work if the business is ‘COVID-safe’. It has said that clinically ...
Raise the rates of legacy benefits not just Universal Credit, say MPs
21 June 2020 | News
Rates of ESA and other ‘legacy benefits’ must be raised to provide help for those not yet moved to Universal Credit (UC) and who are struggling to meet the extra inescapable costs imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, the Work and Pensions Committee of MPs said today.
While the Government has raised the rates of standard UC and basic Working Tax Credit by £20 a week for 12 months, people on benefits yet to be replaced by UC, including JSA, ESA and Child Tax Credit, have not been similarly helped, with the DWP blaming computer difficulties for the disparity.
More than half of DLA claimants in receipt of the mobility component lose out on reassessment for PIP
27 May 2019 | News
The Minister for Disabled People Justin Tomlinson has said that More than half of DLA claimants receiving its mobility component had the amount reduced or stopped on reassessment to PIP.
More than 1.1 million disabled people had been reassessed from DLA with a mobility component to PIP and that, of these, 52% had the amount either reduced or stopped, the Minister said in a reply to a House of Commons question on 23 May.
MPs say delay the vote on the next phase of Universal Credit
21 November 2018 | News