Today was the turn of the coalition's «bedroom tax», which are
affecting disabled people especially badly.
Taken together the raft of welfare and other changes will seriously
affect disabled people's income and opportunities and risk undoing the momentum towards a more equal society that has taken decades to build.
The raft of welfare and other changes will seriously
affect disabled people's income and opportunities.
Launched today, the Office for Disability Issues (ODI) hopes to improve partnerships across government departments with regard to policies that
affect disabled people.
«The NUT will continue to work alongside other trade unions and organisations to highlight the issues that
affect disabled people and ensure that their voices are not ignored and their presence in the workplace not compromised.»
Not exact matches
«The only way that we can get to an effective solution to this problem that
affects women, minorities, and the
disabled is by being upfront with what
people are being paid per position.»
Refusal to hire a worker with responsibility for a
disabled person because attendance might be
affected
The COLA also
affects benefits for about 4 million
disabled veterans, 2.5 million federal retirees and their survivors, and more than 8 million
people who get Supplemental Security Income, the disability program for the poor.
So Steven... you are saying that
people affected by Asperger's Syndrome — whose mirror neurons are largely of fully
disabled — are beyond redemption?
A grassroots organisation has been launched to advocate for
disabled people, as government cuts
affecting vulnerable
people are set to continue.
A policy which disproportionately
affects ethnic minorities, LGBT
people, women, the
disabled and those living in less affluent areas is not only an affront to basic principles of fairness and social justice but also exacerbates the inequality crisis which continues to worsen across the UK.
More
disabled people affected by the bedroom tax.
Denying
disabled people support risks greater social exclusion, poverty and isolation for the
disabled people affected.
The government initially suggested the end of this support would
affect 50,000
disabled people and mean a # 135 million saving for DWP.
By the October spending review, figures had jumped by 60 % to 80,000
disabled people affected with a revised saving of # 160 million.
Labour's Derek Twigg asks Duncan Smith to confirm that households with a
disabled person are more likely to be
affected.
Chris Goulden, head of poverty at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said: «It is very difficult to see how this policy can work without causing severe hardship, particularly as many of those
affected are
disabled people.
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has taken the wraps off a new savings plan for
disabled people that allows them to save money without
affecting their eligibility for benefits.
The highly critical report, published in Geneva on Monday afternoon, says the rights of
disabled people to live independently, to work, and achieve an adequate standard of living have been negatively
affected by austerity measures.
They'd figured out not just how many
people died from specific diseases, but also how much each disease
affected people's lives, making them sick or
disabled.
Women and
disabled people are likely to be disproportionately
affected.
Spanning the full spectrum of medicine and afflicting
people of all ages and ethnic groups, these diseases encompass some of the most common, severe and
disabling conditions
affecting Americans.
Its mission is to find a cure for these seriously
disabling — and currently incurable - diseases, most of which have a genetic origin, and also help
people affected by them.
Unemployment does
affect Supplemental Security Income, an unrelated program also administered by the Social Security agency for
persons age 65 and over, or blind or
disabled.
b) to establish an open forum where
disabled people will freely voice their concerns regarding issues that
affect their lifestyle; and
As a
person with bipolar disorder, you know that there are many disorder - related things that have the ability to
disable you, or at least
affect how you work.
But how in practice will this
affect landlords when seeking to obtain possession of premises occupied by a
disabled person?
In particular, the equality guarantees set out in Section 15 of the Charter have been introduced for the purpose of responding to negative stereotypes and stigmatization which
affect marginalized
persons in society, including
disabled persons.
It is clear that in any case where the decision may
affect large numbers of
disabled people, the necessary due regard to the needs of
disabled people under the public sector equality duty is very high.
There are many factors that
affect carers» lives, for example not being consulted when someone is being discharged from hospital, or not considering carers» employment needs when changing the package of care for the
disabled person.
Furthermore, it was likely that identifiable minorities, including First Nations
people, immigrants, and the
disabled, were over-represented among this group and therefore disproportionately
affected by the imposition of hearing fees.
Through a process of structured development we aim to draw attention to the physical, social, economic, cultural and attitudinal barriers that
affect our everyday lives as
disabled people in Scotland.
As a collective we believe that the views of
disabled children and young
people are vital to the development of an inclusive society and that they have the right to be heard and actively participate in decisions that
affect them.
Each member is passionate about ensuring
disabled children and young
people, and those with special educational needs, have an equal say in issues and decisions that
affect them and their families.
Since its inception, Joni and Friends has been dedicated to serving
people who are
affected by disability, whether it is the
disabled person, a family member, or friend.