Sentences with phrase «disabilities live»

Easter Seals helps thousands of children and adults with disabilities live with greater independence

Spencer, a broker - associate with RE / MAX Executives Inc. in Atlanta, has actively volunteered with United Cerebral Palsy of Georgia for 26 years, helping people with developmental disabilities live life to its fullest.

OTs (Occupational Therapists) help people with disabilities live more independent lives.

An occupational therapist helps people with temporary disabilities return to their prior level of functioning, and helps people with permanent disabilities live more independently on a day - to - day basis (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015).

OTs (Occupational Therapists) help people with disabilities live more independent lives.

Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors help people dealing with various disabilities live independently.

Rehabilitation counselors help people with physical, mental, developmental, or emotional disabilities live independently.

OTs (Occupational Therapists) help people with disabilities live more independent lives.

We train dogs to help people with disabilities live fuller, more independent lives.

OTs (Occupational Therapists) help people with disabilities live more independent lives.

«Kessler Foundation works everyday to support their independence and I want to be a part of helping people with disabilities live as normal of a life as possible.

«Lion Heart Residences increases access to affordable housing for individuals and their families, and will help people with disabilities live and succeed in their communities,» said New York State Senator Neil Breslin.

Some learning disabled people live in intentional communities, organisations such as L'Arche, where people with and without disabilities live together in a communal setting.

Many people with disabilities live on their own, using PCAs for whatever support they need.

L'Arche (meaning «The Ark» in French) is a worldwide network of Christian communities where people with learning disabilities live as peers alongside assistants.

There are now 147 L'Arche centres in 35 countries, where people with and without disabilities live together as equals.

Rev Heming told Premier how government policy regarding disabilities had affected her and said: «I'm one of the people that made the transfer from disability living allowance to PIP (Personal Independence Payment) and I lost my mobility vehicle as a result of that.

Your employer may ask for evidence that you're entitled to parental leave, including the child's birth certificate, or papers confirming the award of their disability living allowance.

Developmental Special Needs www.tri-counties.org Tri-Counties Regional Center provides supports and services for individuals with developmental disabilities living in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties so that they may live fully and safely as active and independent members of our community.

You may also be eligible for extra Child Tax Credit for each disabled child you're responsible for or Disability Living Allowance for children.

The report gathered together existing information and analysed over 500 group responses to the Government's Response to Disability Living Allowance reform — obtained under a Freedom of Information request - and found that: 74 % of respondents were against the proposals for PIP; 19 % had mixed views; and Only 7 % supported it fully.

This included the introduction of a medical assessment for Disability Living Allowance from 2013 which would apply to new and existing claimants.

Against a backdrop of rising homelessness, we ask the government again to rethink this ill - conceived policy and to ensure disabled people receiving disability living allowance, and other vulnerable people, are exempt from the bedroom tax before it comes into effect on April 1st.»

The Government has since announced that it proposes to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) with a new benefit from 2013, the Personal Independence Payment, for eligible working age people aged 16 to 64.

Over the past decade, the number claiming Disability Living Allowance as a whole shot up from 2.5 million to 3.2 million.

Ministers at the DWP repeatedly claimed that the majority of people on disability living allowance (DLA) were given benefits for life without any supporting medical evidence.

Claim: Personal Independence Payments would «better reflect today's understanding of disability» than the Disability Living Allowance (DLA)

Many of these will be in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA), a non-means-tested benefit designed to assist people with disabilities to live life to the full.

When people know that I receive the Personal Independence Payment (PIP — formerly known as Disability Living Allowance) sometimes they almost seem jealous that I get «free money».

Now add in these: disability living allowance starts converting into personal independence payment with a target to remove 500,000 people in new Atos medical tests.»

Tightening the already extremely tight eligibility conditions for disability living allowance?

Introduced in April 2013, PIP is replacing the disability living allowance and, like its predecessor, it is intended to help with the additional expenses caused by long - term health problems such as transport costs to and from hospital appointments.

As we showed immediately after the Budget, the Chancellor's claim that the spending changes he announced were «progressive» has always been contentious — significantly the Treasury's modelling did not include a third of social security changes, including cuts to Housing Benefit and Disability Living Allowance, and only changes up until 2012/13 were considered.

In line with what was proposed by last autumn's Smith Commission, Scotland will be given control over the likes of the Disability Living Allowance, the Attendance Allowance, the Carer's Allowance, Personal Independence Payments and Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit.

Where changes are fair, proportionate and encourage work we will support them as we have shown in respect of incapacity benefit, a reformed gateway for Disability Living Allowance and on upratings.

The disabled child rate is payable if: · disability living allowance, personal independence payment or Armed Forces Independence Payment (AFIP) is payable for the child or is normally payable but has ceased because they are a patient in hospital; or · they are certified as severely sight impaired or blind by a consultant ophthalmologist, or has ceased to be registered or certified blind within 28 weeks immediately preceding the date of claim The severely disabled child rate is payable if: · the highest rate care component of disability living allowance or the enhanced daily living component of personal independence payment or any component of armed forces independence payment is payable for them or would be payable but for suspension or abatement due to hospitalisation 3.

The most common way to qualify for these higher payments is through receipt of a disability benefit such as disability living allowance or personal independence payment.

The DWP literature — and minsters in interview — argued that «more than 50 per cent of decisions for Disability Living Allowance were made simply on the basis of a claim form alone, without any additional medical evidence.»

The clearly emotional writer explains the problem with the cuts to the High Rate Mobility component of Disability Living Allowance.

Originally all 3.3 m disability living allowance claimants were due to be on the new system at the beginning of October before being moved to the end of the month, there is now no set rollout date on the reform going through.

The problems with processing the benefit, which replaces the old disability living allowance (DLA), echo ongoing issues with the rollout of employment and support allowance (ESA), which have also provoked profound unhappiness from disability groups.

As Cameron and his minister friends applaud the Paralympians they are in the process of removing even more support from disabled people by reassessing all on disability living allowance.

Eight months ago, her claim for Personal Independent Payments (PIP), which replaced the Disability Living Allowance, was rejected by the DWP.

Over the next four years many disabled people will see a reduction in the overall value of their benefits, as well as specific reductions in the levels of housing benefit; unemployment benefit; the loss of disability living allowance (DLA), which contributes towards the - often significant - extra costs of living as a disabled person; as well as reduced access to social care services as a consequence of local government funding cuts.

David Cameron apparently believes that plans for disability living allowance (DLA) cuts will not leave disabled people lacking mobility support.

A medical assessment will also be introduced for disability living allowance claimants from 2013.

According to our numbers, there are approximately 1.5 million people with disabilities living in New York City.

Changes to welfare will account for # 11bn worth of savings by 2014/15, the chancellor said, with changes to child benefits, housing benefits and the disability living allowance.

New and existing Disability Living Allowance claimants will be subjected to new medical assessments from 2013.

It's followed by housing benefit of # 16.94 bn (+5.2 %) and Disability living allowance of # 12.57 bn (+3.3 %).