Most vulnerable are worst affected by welfare payment suspensions, government data reveals
Those experiencing homelessness, living with disability or who are Indigenous hardest hit under Centrelink’s mutual obligation regime Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Tens of thousands…
The system is failing those who can’t work
A reader describes how delays in crucial benefit assessments are making life unbearable for many people with disabilities I am a 62-year-old man who has been disabled for the last…
Feds Update Rules For Disability Employment
New federal guidance is spelling out what qualifies as competitive integrated employment for people with disabilities. The post Feds Update Rules For Disability Employment appeared first on Disability Scoop.
We need to look at inequality in terms of jobs, not just pay | Letters
Disabled people are still shouldering more of the pandemic’s economic impact than their non-disabled peers, writes Gemma Hope; Prof Rhys Jenkins questions the taper rate of universal credit I echo…
Disability Service Providers Struggle To Compete For Workers
With pay rates that are less than fast-food wages, disability service providers can’t find staff and are closing group homes and struggling to maintain services as a result. The post…
Federal Jobs Program Moves To End Subminimum Wage
A massive program that puts people with disabilities to work through federal government contracts across the country plans to no longer allow workers to be paid less than minimum wage.…
Disabled woman to take DWP to court over ‘immoral’ automatic benefit deductions
Helen Timson says third party deductions scheme can leave many without enough money to buy food A disabled woman is to challenge the Department for Work and Pensions in court…
California Joins Growing List Of States Ending Subminimum Wage
California is joining 10 other states including Alaska, Oregon and Texas in phasing out the practice of paying workers with disabilities as little as $2 an hour. The post California…
The universal credit cut is outrageous, but this callousness is nothing new | Frances Ryan
From the bedroom tax to ESA reductions, a gulf between those who make policy and those affected by it has brought a decade of misery Next month, universal credit will…
Boris Johnson has created a ‘social care plan’ without any plan for social care | Frances Ryan
The prime minister had a chance to effect real reform. Instead, he chose the Tory base over disabled people and care workers Two years after Boris Johnson promised a plan…