Category Archives: disability
Please help Aberdeen get more wheelchairs and scooters
Disability charity chasing more mobility scooters
Shopmobility Aberdeen hoping to benefit from RBS CommunityForce initiative.
By Danny Law 08 October 2011 09:00 BST
Help: Shopmobility Aberdeen provide scooters and wheelchairs for people with limited mobility.
An Aberdeen disability charity wants to extend its services with the help of a £6000 grant.
Shopmobility Aberdeen lends powered and manual wheelchairs and scooters for use throughout the city centre to people who have long-term disabilities or illnesses.
Four in ten disabled children are living in poverty
The charity is also calling for government to do more to help these families
Four in ten disabled children in the UK – a staggering 320,000 – are living in poverty, reveals a new report by The Children’s Society.
Nearly a third of those 320,000 are living in severe poverty. Alarmingly, when a disabled adult also lives in the household, around half of all disabled children will be living in poverty.
Carers must not miss out on the Warm Home Discount
Fuel poor could miss out on help
By Bob Howard Reporter, Money Box
The BBC has learned that not everyone eligible for the new Warm Home Discount will receive it because of funding limits.
Warm Home Discount replaces the current social tariffs provided by the energy firms to help customers on low incomes.
More than half a million pensioner households will get £120 off their bills this winter.
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