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3 February 2010
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.
In a campaign launched today, spearheaded by Citizens Advice, they have written to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Yvette Cooper saying more needs to be done to ensure that money earmarked for children, families and pensioners in greatest need reaches those for whom it is intended.
Disability Alliance supports the campaign which links to our 'Tackling Disability Poverty' manifesto recommendation that the Government should implement a benefits take-up campaign.
For more information on our 'Tackling Disability Poverty' manifesto and the unclaimed benefits campaign see the links below.
The organisations listed below support the following statement from Citizens Advice:
'We call on the Government to set ambitious take-up targets for means-tested benefits and tax credits, as an important step towards tackling poverty and providing adequate incomes for all.'
* AdviceUK
* Age Concern and Help the Aged
* Barnardos
* Church action on poverty
* Citizens Advice Scotland
* Community Links
* Child Poverty Action Group
* Crisis
* Depaul UK
* DIAL
* Disability Alliance
* Gingerbread
* Housing Justice
* Joseph Rowntree
* Leonard Cheshire
* Macmillan
* MIND
* RNIB
* RNID
* Save the Children
* The Equality Trust
* The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group
* The Royal British Legion
* Toynbee Hall
* TUC
* Youth Access
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