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Government figures show spending on the UK's Access to Work scheme fell by nearly 7% in real terms from 2024-25 to 2025-26, while the number of recipients increased, resulting in a 12% drop in average payments per disabled worker. The Department for Work and Pensions attributes the apparent cut to accounting timing differences, but disabled campaigners report ongoing concerns about reduced support budgets and delays affecting disabled workers' ability to remain employed.
UK government disability employment figures show a 30 percentage point gap between disabled (53%) and non-disabled (82.4%) employment rates, with the annual figures revealing the gap actually increased from 26.8% to 28% year-on-year. Disability rights organizations call for a comprehensive national strategy including flexible job creation, adequate funding for support schemes, and employer accountability to close the persistent employment disadvantage faced by disabled people.
The UK government's Earned Settlement policy will reduce rights for disabled migrants by imposing economic contribution requirements and restricting access to public funds including disability benefits and social care. The policy lacks clarity on exemptions for disabled people and will particularly harm disabled migrants unable to work and care workers who earn below the £25,000 threshold.
Disability Rights UK responds to a UK government consultation on extending equal pay protections to disabled people, highlighting that disabled workers face a 15.5% pay gap and calling for stronger enforcement mechanisms and proactive measures beyond the current proposals. The organization urges mandatory disability pay gap reporting, enhanced pay transparency throughout employment, and adequate resourcing of a new Equal Pay Regulatory and Enforcement Unit to tackle systemic pay discrimination.
A federal judge has struck down a Medicaid eligibility requirement that forced people with disabilities to prove they are unable to work to maintain coverage. The ruling is being celebrated by disability advocates as it removes a barrier that directly affected disabled people's employment and benefit status.
The UK government's budget announcement delays decisions on disability benefit cuts and reforms, with final reports on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and support for young people expected in November and government response by year-end. The budget includes some measures to ease disability poverty such as energy bill payments and changes to carer's allowance, but hints at future cuts to PIP spending.
The UK Chancellor has pledged to reduce the welfare bill before the next election, including through a 'tough' approach to young people refusing job or training support. The Office for Budget Responsibility projects that sickness and disability benefits will cost £100bn annually by the end of the decade.
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The Disability Poverty Campaign Group (DPCG) has sent a letter to the new Chancellor, Rt Hon John Healey, urging him to break the endless cycle of disability poverty and to rebuild trust between the...
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A recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme Money Box, has explored the substantial and ongoing challenges facing the operation of the Access to Work Scheme for Disabled people.
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The nation's largest movie theater chain will pay $56,000 and take other steps to settle claims that it illegally forced out an employee with cerebral palsy after two decades on the job.
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Ministers are working up sweeping plans for welfare changes including scrapping a key disability benefit for under-25s and replacing it with a multibillion-pound package of support to get into work,...
**The government’s youth inactivity adviser swore at Disability News Service’s editor after being challenged about his failure to discuss the safeguarding risks involved in forcing tens of thousands...
Kody tells their story about the barriers they faced when being diagnosed with ADHD as a physically Disabled person.
Alan Milburn said 16- to 24-year-olds with most complex needs should not have to keep proving they cannot workYoung people whose complex disabilities mean they have little prospect of getting a paid...
Disability Rights UK's briefing for Disabled People’s Organisations to challenge the new Timms Review Draft Recommendations – PIP must remain a fully cash benefit On the 9th of September the...
**Disabled people’s organisations have been kept “firmly on the outside” of a key government programme to improve workplace health, raising fresh questions about ministers’ commitment to co-producing...
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