Sentences with phrase «disabled persons over»

This includes elderly persons, disabled veterans and disabled persons over 65.

By elevating the right of disabled persons over «other considerations,» the Board ignored industry standards, compromised its flagship product, and misapplied federal laws, including the American with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

You'll be hearing more from me and the rest of Labour's Work and Pensions team about this, and the better targeted support we need for key groups such as single parents and disabled people over the months to come.

But more importantly the study also shows how cuts to a host of benefits including disability living allowance (DLA), employment and support allowance (ESA), housing benefit and the «bedroom tax» are hitting the same group of disabled people over and over again.

There is a # 9billion hit for 3.5 million disabled people over five years according to the think tank, Demos.

Not exact matches

People who need help with aging parents or disabled family members save money over using traditional agencies, and health care professionals can make more money with no middleman involved.

Many people will operate their home computers with weak or even no passwords and with their only protection from Internet threats being the rudimentary security capabilities of their DSL router or cable modem, which they will gladly disable to make it easier for their Xbox, PlayStation or Wii game console to connect with strangers from all over the world.

Over 117,000 people were assaulted with guns of all types; many of these people were blinded, deafened, paralyzed, dismembered or otherwise disabled.

Apparently STATDNA uses Digital Divide Data a company which employs over 500 disabled people in Cambodia & Laos.

We continue to spend over # 40bn a year on disabled people and their services, including # 12.6 bn a year on DLA — about the same as the entire Transport budget (# 13bn).

Students entered the competition from all over the UK — including the Channel Islands — and submitted sample articles covering topics such as their personal experiences with disabilities, portraits of world - famous and local Paralympic athletes or activities for disabled people in their communities.

Since then, the Charter has been endorsed by over 170 governments, UN agencies, international and national NGOs and associations, the Red Cross and Crescent Movement and Disabled People's Organisations (DPOs).

Examples would include housing benefit and attendance allowance, which is paid to disabled people aged 65 or over who need help with personal care.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP)-- Syracuse University expelled a fraternity over an offensive video that members say was intended as satire, but the controversy is continuing with the emergence of more video simulating a sexual assault of a disabled person.

These include: personal budgets for employment support services that would enable disabled people to have much more control over the type of support they receive, breaking down the barriers disabled people face when gaining employment, and staying in work which is vital to the country's sustainable economic growth.

You may have heard that Guide Dogs, along with over 40 other organisations and groups of disabled people are supporting a March, a Lobby of Parliament and a Rally on the 11th May to voice anger and concern at the cuts threatening benefits, services, jobs and rights.

The report also finds evidence that people over 50 and those who are disabled struggle to find work through the programme.

The programmes exposed a system designed to remove over a million disabled people from welfare support that has caused misery, anxiety and the premature deaths and suicides of an estimated 32 people a week.

That's why in the same month that disabled people are being hit by the Bedroom Tax, 13,000 millionaires are getting a tax cut of over # 100,000.

For the first time in my life, I witnessed New York elected officials pound their chest proudly while cutting nearly $ 7 billion in funding for the people they serve, tripping over themselves to cut taxes for millionaires while simultaneously cutting healthcare services for seniors, women, and the disabled and killing jobs across the state.»

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.

Over the next parliament disabled people as a group stand to lose # 9 billion in financial support and that doesn't even include the loss of local services like care and support, subsidised transport and respite services.

MTD is capable of delivering benefits over the years to come, but there is a risk that many disabled people in business will suffer a real burden if they find they are mandated not only to transact with HMRC digitally, but also to keep records in a prescribed digital format.

We've seen similar hypocrisy over the housing crisis, integration policies, and the treatment of disabled people.

What about the message this sends out to the public only a week after the passing of the controversial and feared welfare reform bill set to remove benefits from over half a million genuinely sick and disabled people?

Morgenthau has much admired record over many years on court diversion for mentally disabled defendants, hiring of persons with disabilities in his office, and staunch opposition to the death penalty.

Disabled people face losing out over the next four years as the government announces further changes to welfare payments to be introduced next January.

However, the five main UK disability rights groups all oppose change, because 70 per cent of disabled people believe that such a change would «lead to pressure being placed on them to end their lives prematurely», and over half that it would be «detrimental to the way that disabled people are viewed by society as a whole».

Over 100,000 disabled people who need support to wash, get dressed, leave the house, go to work - the essentials of a dignified life, are now being denied this most basic of support as a result of the squeezing of social care budgets.

For example, over 600,000 disabled people who currently receive disability living allowance (DLA)-- who face significant barriers and costs in their daily life — will now have this support withdrawn as they are deemed ineligible for the new personal independence payments (PIP).

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says the agency that investigates mistreatment of disabled people in state care refused to hand over thousands of records needed to complete a state audit.

The looming climbdown comes with the Government facing a crushing defeat in Parliament over the plan to strip 370,00 disabled people of # 3,500 - a-year in vital benefits.

WHO estimates that over 5 per cent of the world's population — 360 million people has disabling hearing loss.

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People may think they have control over personal information by, say, disabling location services on an app, but that's not always the case, says Kalev Leetaru, a fellow in residence at Georgetown University and an expert in big data.

From his hospital bed, a disabled patient is capable of controlling a telepresence robot and interacting with people he meets over Skype.

Over the past decade or so, a growing autistic pride movement has been pushing the idea that people with autism aren't disabled, they just think differently to «neurotypicals».

The political wrangling over science «disables people's abilities to make sense of information,» he said.

Taking over family duties that the depressed person is capable of renders them disabled and robs them of an opportunity to part of the family.

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In announcing the settlement, Board president Gaston Caperton said that «the rights of disabled persons should prevail over other considerations.»

Over the course of this short, accessible book, developmentally disabled high school graduates Biddy and Quincy and their recently widowed landlady Elizabeth gradually transform from characters weighed down by their pasts — and by the labels society has assigned them — into people who can build friendships and careers and find happiness despite obstacles.

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.

Standard Life employees are also saying a fond farewell to their previous charity partners Scope and Capability Scotland, having raised over half a million pounds over the past two years to support disabled people across the UK.

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a potentially disabling psychiatric condition where obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions such as hand washing, cleaning, hair - plucking or hoarding take over a person's life.