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…
Crippled by Frances Ryan review – how disabled people have been demonised | Books | The Guardian
As Frances Ryan writes in this blistering polemic, Britain faces fundamental questions about what kind of society it wants to be. Will we choose a survival-of-the‑fittest system, in which poverty…
In Reversal, Social Security Says Stimulus Checks Won’t Affect SSI Benefits
People with disabilities can save money received through stimulus checks and other COVID-19 relief programs indefinitely without losing out on their SSI benefits thanks to a recent rule change. The…
2022 U.S. Social Security COLA May Be 6.2%
2022 U.S. Social Security cost of living adjustment (COLA) could be 6.2% according to Senior Citizens League (TSCL) estimate, based on July consumer price index (CPI) data released by the…
Yes, Home Care is Infrastructure
Home care being reframed as infrastructure is the most revolutionary development in personal assistance since ADAPT bullied the bully Newt Gingrich, then speaker of the U.S. House, into supporting Our…
More States Move To Phase Out Subminimum Wage
At least eight states have acted to prohibit subminimum wage employment in the hope of integrating more people with disabilities into the general workforce. The post More States Move To…
Feds Propose New Canada Disability Benefit
Feds Propose New Canada Disability Benefit June 24, 2021 admin Benefit would supplement existing federal, provincial/territorial supports Roughly one-fifth of working-age Canadians with disabilities live in poverty, according to the…
Benefits claimants suffering under end-of-life DWP rule
Terminally ill people in UK spending final weeks struggling to get social security help as six-month rule demands ‘proof’ of life expectancy More than 100 terminally ill people are each…