Disability In The Uk News
Society daily 04.01.12 - 6 Jan 2012
Families 'hardest hit' by welfare cuts Sign up to Society daily email briefing Today's top SocietyGuardian stories • Couples with children 'to be hardest hit' by coalition tax and benefit changes • Poorest families left in the cold by energy suppliers • Millions use payday loans to cover mortgage and rental costs • How the Stephen Lawrence murder case changed Britain - video • Hideously diverse ...
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Cash cut fear over welfare reform - 6 Jan 2012
OVER £10 million is set to be taken from the most vulnerable people in Inverclyde every year as a result of new welfare reforms. Inverclyde Council has started to count the cost of cuts to the likes of disability living allowance, incapacity and housing benefit.
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The cost of disabilities could reach 77.2% of household income - 4 Jan 2012
Researchers have for the first time estimated the cost and impact of disabilities on the finances of disabled people. According to data, 90% of the population with a serious disability in Spain is in a state of moderate poverty and 56% lives in a state of extreme poverty.
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The cost of disabilities could reach 77.2 percent of household income - 4 Jan 2012
A team of researchers have for the first time estimated the cost and impact of disabilities on the finances of disabled people. According to data, 90% of the population with a serious disability in Spain is in a state of moderate poverty and 56% lives in a state of extreme poverty.
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Liam Byrne's call for a new welfare state: panel verdict | The panel - 4 Jan 2012
Our panel discusses the shadow work and pensions secretary's return to William Beveridge in his comments on reform Diane Abbott : 'Benefits are just part of the picture' My colleague Liam Byrne is absolutely right to say that we need a debate on social insurance. I deliberately use the term "social insurance". William Beveridge , the architect of the modern "welfare state" disliked the term ...
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The coalition's Dickensian take on disability allowance - 4 Jan 2012
For a government committed to getting people working, abolishing the disability living allowance presents a PR challenge This year sees the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens. And it will be hard to miss, with Dickens exhibitions and festivals to be held across the country (and the world), a host of new radio and TV adaptations, a major retrospective of Dickens on film and several new ...
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UK's NHS blamed for 74 disabled deaths - 3 Jan 2012
Britain's NHS has been accused of “causing or contributing” to the deaths of some 74 vulnerable patients due to lack of basic care in the past decade, a learning disability charity revealed.
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Disabled patients dying due to 'institutional discrimination' in NHS - 3 Jan 2012
Doctors and nurses are committing "institutional discrimination" against NHS patients with a learning disability, a report warns today.
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Strolling to the bank from his taxpayer-funded home, the 'disabled' father who has claimed nearly £300,000 in benefits ... - 31 Dec 2011
Hassan Gilani from Croydon, South London, has received up to £110,000 in housing benefit on top of £70,000 in disability allowance from the UK taxpayer since 1997.
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MBEs for disability sport workers - 30 Dec 2011
Two disability sport ambassadors are appointed MBEs in the New Year Honours
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