Parents of families who rely on benefit handouts are being warned they must find work as their claiming limit will be slashed this autumn.
Blake Pyron was born with Down Syndrome. Like all other mothers, who give birth to children with Down Syndrome, Blake's mother was told that her son wouldn't be able to do several things.
Disability Rights UK welcomes the Government's agreement to hold urgent talks with us and the Disability Consortium on the fairness of the current PIP moving around descriptors. The public offer was made by the DWP Minister during a House of Lords debate on 4 may 2016 where the Lords voted to accept the following motion proposed by Lady Thomas of Winchester: "That this House calls on Her Majesty's Government to hold urgent talks with Disability Rights UK and the Disability Benefits Consortium to identify a mobility criterion in the Personal Independence Payment "moving around" assessment which is fairer than the current 20 metre distance, in the light of the impact on reassessed disabled claimants and the resulting large number of successful appeals." You can read a transcript of the Lords debate Disability Rights UK says: "Motability has reported that, to date, 45% of scheme users - over 13,000 - who have been reassessed from DLA have lost their Motability cars. It tells us that the number of DLA claimants l
Google has been given access to an estimated 1.6 million NHS patient records, it has been revealed.
Last week we've been spreading the message that being deaf or having hearing loss doesn't mean you can't realise your dreams.
had such a lovely time last week. I got to be a grown-up, which doesn't happen very often, and it was so wonderful!
