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disability alliance joins campaign to challenge the government over £16bn unclaimed benefits
Twenty-seven leading charities are calling on the government to set ambitious targets to improve take-up of welfare benefits and tax credits, highlighting more than £16 billion in means-tested benefits and tax credits that currently goes unclaimed every year. Posted 3 February 2010.
disability alliance poverty manifesto
Disability Alliance, with a range of national charity partners, has launched a 'manifesto' of recommendations for routes out of poverty for disabled people and their families. Updated 9 December 2009.
shared surfaces: the implications for disabled people
Campaign for streetscape and public space developments, including those that follow the ‘shared space’ concept, which meet the needs of all disabled people. Latest campaign update available. Posted 15 May 2009.
prescription promise campaign
Disability Alliance, together with 17 other charities is asking the Government to urgently review prescription charges to make all prescriptions free for people with long-term conditions and disabilities and ensure that no-one is unable to afford vital medication. Email your support (this will automatically be sent to your local MP) and sign our petition. Updated 20 April 2009.
fuel poverty campaign
The Fuel Poverty campaign aims to 'fuel poverty proof' homes by bringing 6 million homes up to the energy efficiency standards of modern homes. Updated 27 March 2009.
draft claimant's charter
In the Second Reading debate of the Welfare Reform Bill, the Secretary of State James Purnell indicated that he would be prepared to look at the idea of a 'Claimants' Charter'. This is a draft charter, which is intended to represent the first step in the development of a scheme to protect benefit claimants in their dealings with public, private and third sector welfare to work employment services. Posted 23 February 2009.
end child poverty campaign
The Campaign to End Child Poverty aims to eradicate child poverty in the UK by 2020. There are now 140 organisations who are members of the campaign, including Disability Alliance. Posted 4 February 2009.
get fair campaign
On 21 May 2008, a coalition of 45 organisations came together to hold a parliamentary launch of a new UK-wide coalition campaign that seeks not just to make things better for people in the UK, but more ambitiously, to end poverty in the UK within a generation. Posted 4 June 2008.
extension of winter fuel payments to those eligible to receive cold weather payments
Disability Alliance and several other organisations have jointly written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to recommend the extension of winter fuel payments to those consumers currently eligible to receive cold weather payments. Posted 9 November 2006.
campaign to stop energy suppliers charging the poor more for gas and electricity
A coalition of charities and consumer organisations have asked energy suppliers to stop charging the poor more for gas and electricity. Posted 20 September 2006.
macmillan cancer relief's 'better deal' campaign
Disability Alliance has lent its support to MacMillan Cancer Relief's 'Better Deal' campaign, which aims to stop people with cancer from suffering financially. Posted 5 July 2005.
mobilise campaign
The focus of the campaign is the mobility component of disability living allowance which is currently not available to disabled people aged 65 and over.
benefit reductions for people in hospital
We are concerned about the potential hardship caused by reductions in disability living allowance, attendance allowance or carer's allowance when a disabled adult or child goes into hospital.
cost of participation
The aim of the campaign is to secure changes in social security benefit rules to make it possible for disabled people to take up appointments on public bodies without losing out financially or putting their benefits at risk.
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